How to Use talent scout in a Sentence

talent scout

noun
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  • There was none of this, ‘Hey, there might be a talent scout from UTA!
    — David Peisner, Vulture, 21 May 2021
  • Not even the most sharp-eyed Hollywood talent scout would find it on the street.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 19 Sep. 2020
  • Spotted by a talent scout, he was later signed to the Yankees in 1923.
    — Rebecca Cairns; Video By Milly Chan, CNN, 2 June 2021
  • She was born in Manhattan, and her dad had wanted to be a talent scout.
    — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2022
  • That performance led to a talent scout offering her a job singing with big band groups in the Midwest.
    — Orlando Sentinel, OrlandoSentinel.com, 8 Apr. 2018
  • Chase, meanwhile acts as the House's talent scout, finding new TikTok influencers to join the team.
    — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 21 Feb. 2020
  • Arista’s talent scout Gerry Griffith was the one who steered the label to the club), Clive signed her, promoted her, launched her like a slingshot.
    — Amy X. Wang, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2021
  • While Koh was still a university student, a talent scout approached him on the street.
    — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Kai’s performance, along with his blinding smile, caught the attention of a talent scout.
    — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • Like soccer tournaments all over the world, the Masaza Cup is tracked by talent scouts and backed by corporate sponsors.
    — Liam Taylor, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Should soccer talent scouts be concerned about being edged out by the arrival of AI in their industry?
    — Jack Bantock, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
  • For all his business savvy, Mr. Rupe’s radar as a talent scout was not always operating at full strength.
    — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Williams used his connections with Black Swan Records to persuade the Paramount executives to give him a job as a talent scout.
    — Arkansas Online, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Les Temps modernes would be a laboratory of new ideas and a talent scout rolled into one.
    — Longreads, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Another job is to act as talent scout for future campaigns.
    — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
  • So as a senior leader, yes, hire, but also talent scout in your own company.
    — Diana Tsai, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Dantas also has served as something of a talent scout for new acts, many of whom have gone on to sign with traditional labels.
    — Shasta Darlington, Billboard, 18 July 2019
  • At 20, while chaperoning her younger sister Morgana to a modeling casting call, Metz caught the eye of a talent scout.
    — Alison Edmond, Glamour, 9 Oct. 2018
  • The publicists at 20th Century Fox pitched Monroe to the press as a young orphan who was discovered while babysitting for a Fox talent scout.
    — Foren Clark, CNN, 16 Jan. 2022
  • During one school production, a talent scout from Paramount Pictures saw her onstage and offered her a screen test.
    — Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The characters are sharply etched, very funny, and most important, engaging — even that slimy talent scout.
    — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 May 2018
  • Their mentor was award-winning producer Erika Forzy, who also works as a talent scout.
    — Lise Pedersen, Variety, 16 June 2022
  • The team employed one man, Frank Korch, as its public relations director and talent scout.
    — Will Larkin, chicagotribune.com, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Before long, national talent scouts were booking flights to Big D. — T. Christensen 13.
    — Dallasnews.com Staff, Dallas News, 15 June 2023
  • At 10, Holland was spotted at a performance by talent scouts, who scooped him up to audition for the West End production about a boy who loves ballet in secret – then out loud.
    — Andrea Wurzburger, PEOPLE.com, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Soon after that sighting, François approaches Jean, a former rugby player, about working with him as a talent scout at a new sports agency.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2022
  • Before the Clever news became official, earlier in the year social media was abuzz with word of talent scouts looking to rugby for the next superstar.
    — Alan Dymock, CNN, 24 Apr. 2018
  • But this was the early 2000s, before every human with a smartphone became an amateur talent scout.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Brought to FC Cincinnati as a talent scout and eventual academy director, the first-year coach has likely had personnel alterations in the works for some time.
    — Charlie Hatch, Cincinnati.com, 22 Oct. 2017
  • At the same time, though, managers' role as coaches, advisors, talent scouts, and cheerleaders is more important than ever.
    — Anne Fisher, Fortune, 14 July 2019

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