How to Use appointee in a Sentence

appointee

noun

• Ann Hsu, Breed’s third appointee, was in third with nearly 19% of the vote.
  — Chronicle Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Nov. 2022
• Biden’s first appointee to the court was Koh, the judge Obama had tried to appoint to Pregerson’s seat.
  — Kevin Rectorstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
• Since then, the new appointees have taken steps to void those agreements.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 26 Apr. 2023
• Wray, who was already leading the FBI at the time, is also a Trump appointee.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
• The ruling was 2 to 1; both judges in the majority are Trump appointees.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2024
• The last school board seat was vacant at the time of the vote but has since been filled by appointee Felicia Stolusky.
  — Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 30 June 2022
• All three are DeSantis appointees, as are Muñiz and Couriel.
  — Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2024
• Two of the five Supreme Court justices who ruled against the state were Republican appointees.
  — Kyle Whitmire | [e-mail], al, 7 Sep. 2023
• That means Johnson — a Democratic appointee — will be out of a job soon.
  — Fox News, 8 Dec. 2022
• Wesson and his appointee were just two among many who had influence over the line-drawing process, the court wrote.
  — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2022
• Portela was a Burke-era appointee to the case, having been put on the investigation in 2013.
  — Gus Garcia-Roberts, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
• As luck would have it, the panel included two Trump appointees.
  — Nina Totenberg, NPR, 15 May 2024
• Circuit Judge Kevin Newsom, a Trump appointee, was having none of it.
  — CNN, 25 Aug. 2022
• And the Heritage Foundation compiled a 900-plus-page tome that gets a lot of potential appointees on the record.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
• The Trump transition team has not yet commented on its appointees’ ties to Project 2025.
  — Alison Durkee, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
• The court’s Republican appointees came to the case skeptical of the Chevron doctrine.
  — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
• Russians replaced the mayor with their own appointee last month.
  — Marisa Schultz, Fox News, 14 May 2022
• Estrada, a Biden appointee, did not agree to partner with Weiss on the case in California when Weiss asked him to do so last year.
  — Sarah Bedford, Washington Examiner, 16 Nov. 2023
• This, despite the new appointee being the most qualified for the position.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2024
• The appointee will serve the remainder of Gregg’s term, which expires in January 2027.
  — Jack Birle, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 4 Sep. 2024
• District Judge Leo Sorokin, an Obama appointee, said the case could take three weeks of proceedings.
  — Dallas News, 26 Sep. 2022
• More than one in eight of Trump’s appointees to the federal appellate bench are former Thomas clerks.
  — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 10 June 2024
• In those cases, the appointments effectively cleared the field when each appointee ran for a full term.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• Kagan joined the court in 2010, an appointee of President Barack Obama.
  — CBS News, 13 Sep. 2022
• Agarwal serves as the mayor’s appointee on Dallas’ Park and Recreation Board and is the group’s current chair.
  — Dallas News, 25 Jan. 2023
• If the council members cannot agree on an appointee, the city may hold a special election in November.
  — Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 12 July 2024
• Smith, Garland’s appointee for special counsel, is now a part of that effort.
  — David Rohde, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2022
• Some members could stick around if Johnson chooses them as part of his 11 appointees after the election.
  — Carrie Shepherd, Axios, 28 Oct. 2024
• Your transition co-chair Howard Lutnick said your appointees would be vetted for loyalty.
  — Time Staff, TIME, 12 Dec. 2024
• Trump appointees for key jobs overseeing tech companies in his next administration are expected to take an aggressive approach.
  — Zac Anderson, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Jan 2025