How to Use white knight in a Sentence

white knight

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  • Sometimes all a town needs is a white knight in a black BMW.
    — Bob Morris, Town & Country, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Her methods make the money feel like the end of a fairy tale, when a white knight swoops in to save the day.
    — Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Nov. 2022
  • And Twitter is on the phone with their lawyers asking which can be their white knight.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Perhaps some physician group would like to ride in like a white knight and provide the funding to keep the NGC alive.
    — Ivan Oransky, STAT, 13 June 2018
  • But up until last week, Bankman-Fried was seen as a white knight for the industry.
    — Ken Sweet, ajc, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Extra bases As white knights go, Steve Cohen has a few bruises.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Bankman-Fried was a face of the crypto industry and had emerged as a white knight for struggling companies.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 18 Nov. 2022
  • This time around, YRC’s white knight could be the federal government.
    — Jennifer Smith, WSJ, 18 June 2020
  • White allies should never be confused with white knights—the thought that without the help of a white savior swooping down to help blacks there would be no hope.
    — Jonathan Jones, SI.com, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Many of the depositors had hoped that a white knight could help Celsius get on surer footing.
    — Steven Zeitchik, Washington Post, 14 July 2022
  • In terms of stopping the bleeding that continues to be happening for some of these mid-sized banks, like First Republic, is there a white knight?
    — CBS News, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Lohengrin is no longer the white knight of the Holy Grail who rides in on a swan to save Elsa, falsely accused of murdering her younger brother and heir to the throne of Brabant.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2019
  • In other words, the acquisition premium, or hope for a white knight buyer, is low for Shake Shack.
    — David Trainer, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The arrest caps off a stunning fall from grace for Bankman-Fried, who was, until very recently, considered the golden boy and white knight of the crypto world.
    — Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Along came white knight Alexandre Fauvet, a veteran of Lacoste, to rescue the ailing brand.
    — Jemima Sissons, Robb Report, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Another option for the China business could involve a foreign bank playing the role of white knight.
    — John Engen, Quartz, 15 Mar. 2023
  • In Taxi Driver, Travis sees Iris slathering jam on her toast, which solidifies his vision of her as a child and himself as her white knight.
    — Leah Pickett, Chicago Reader, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Among the cheekiest flourishes, a corporate white knight enters the picture in the form of a tech company known as Grumbl.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 20 May 2021
  • Pride himself goes from self-certain white knight to a man questioning his privilege.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 25 May 2021
  • Crypto didn’t just lose its white knight last week; so did effective altruism.
    — Hillary Hoffower, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2022
  • He was viewed as the crypto world’s white knight, stepping in to rescue struggling companies earlier this year.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 11 Nov. 2022
  • With the country’s banking sector at risk, Swiss authorities stepped in to push UBS to become a reluctant white knight.
    — Marion Halftermeyer, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The United States wasted no time in positioning itself as a kind of white knight for Europe’s energy needs.
    — New York Times, 6 July 2022
  • As the son of a media scion, Kendall knows the importance of creating a public narrative, so positioning himself as the white knight is a savvy move.
    — Erin Gee, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Over the past year, as crypto companies imploded and losses mounted, a white knight appeared.
    — Emily Parker, CNN, 12 Nov. 2022
  • The board enacted a poison pill, a defensive measure, trying to really give them time to look for a second bidder or a white knight.
    — USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2022
  • And tech entrepreneur Alexis Ohanian also offered to be the Choco Taco’s white knight.
    — Emily Heil, Anchorage Daily News, 26 July 2022
  • Property tycoon Sun Hongbin has played the white knight for troubled companies.
    — Dominique Fong, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2018
  • But at the last minute, a mysterious white knight intervened — a Libyan businessman with powerful connections, she was told — and she was sprung from jail.
    — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 8 July 2018
  • Yet if there is consensus around the high priority of finding the strongest candidate to take on Mr. Trump, there is less agreement among rank-and-file voters that the party needs a white knight to enter the race and rescue them.
    — Jonathan Martin, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2019

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