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
• 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
• 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 court’s Republican appointees came to the case skeptical of the Chevron doctrine.
  — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
• 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
• This ability of appointees to prevail in elections is a key factor in the states’ high rates of appointments.
  — Bryna Godar, The Conversation, 21 May 2024
• All three judges on the panel in Navarro’s case are appointees of President Barack Obama.
  — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
• This means that DeSantis’ appointees are not beholden to the last-minute adjustments to the plan that Disney slid in place just before the takeover.
  — Sabina Graves / Gizmodo, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2024
• As an appointee, Luna will not be eligible to run for the council seat when her term expires in 2024.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2023
• Weiss, a Trump-era appointee, has been leading the investigation into the younger Biden and his tax affairs since 2018.
  — Will Steakin, ABC News, 16 May 2023
• The ruling by the conservative-majority court, whose nine seats include three filled with Trump appointees, forced Smith to cut out a slew of details from his initial indictment.
  — Kevin Breuninger,dan Mangan, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2024
• Wisconsin’s top election official, Meagan Wolfe, is a nonpartisan appointee Trump asked Republicans to impeach, in part over false and misleading claims of the 2020 election.
  — Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024