How to Use commissioner in a Sentence

commissioner

noun

• The baseball commissioner decided to suspend the players for 10 games.
• The commissioner and the people with him had all gone down to the field with five minutes or so to go.
  — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2023
• Gilbert Wong Wong spent the last decade working for the city, including two-terms as a mayor, nine years as a council member, and six years as a planning commissioner.
  — Stephanie Lam, The Mercury News, 15 Sep. 2024
• Those numbers should have been a warning sign in and of themselves, according to Ed Davis, a former Boston police commissioner.
  — Shimon Prokupecz, CNN, 31 Jan. 2023
• At the hearing, commissioners came down on the side of the church.
  — Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 8 Feb. 2024
• Dormer was out as commissioner before the end of the year.
  — Robert Kolker, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• The long wait for a park, though, has been worth it, commissioners agreed.
  — Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2024
• The off-the-field topic of the club’s lease with the state was downplayed by commissioner Manfred this week at the All-Star Game.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2023
• The commissioner hopes that charters in the future can be funded in part by the next TV deal.
  — Doug Feinberg, Chicago Tribune, 10 Apr. 2023
• Bull Nakano, the commissioner, climbed under the ropes to present the fighter with the championship belt.
  — Alyson Krueger Martina Tuaty, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2023
• And the groups want a five-to-10-year commitment, Perez told commissioners.
  — Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 11 Apr. 2024
• The change makes Garcia the fourth commissioner this year to win reelection for lack of a challenger.
  — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 24 June 2024
• Based on the non-compliance of the jail standards, the commissioners should have leverage to end the contract with the private jail in Garza County.
  — Noah Alcala Bach, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Feb. 2024
• Wilson, who is a port commissioner in Longview, also planned to meet with counterparts at the port of Shanghai, one of the biggest in the world.
  — Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2023
• Yet its commissioners—who now mostly work one day a week, from home—have seen their caseloads double.
  — Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
• Once the meeting resumed publicly, all but one of the commissioners approved the order.
  — Josephine Peterson, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
• For a while, the Rosedale Grandmont league commissioner said, one of the player's great-grandfathers, who was on a Negro league team, would come to games.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 1 May 2023
• The commissioner, Nichelle Blackwell, said the youth was vulnerable and would be close to many other children at school and the group home.
  — Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Mar. 2023
• The commissioners, who lead a county that is home to about one in 10 of the state’s active voters, had been scheduled to vote on the appointment Wednesday.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
• People who want to sue the state need approval of the claims commissioner’s office and the legislature.
  — Dave Collins, Fortune, 6 May 2024
• After a nearly three-hour session that was closed to the public, commissioners made the selection on a 5-0 vote.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2023
• Reece was appointed by a 2-0 vote with Reece and the other commissioner, Denise Driehaus, voting yes.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 8 Jan. 2024
• The three White members are Republicans, while the two Black commissioners are Democrats.
  — Joseph D. Bryant | [e-mail], al, 31 Aug. 2023
• The commissioners, who were appointed by Gov. Mike Dunleavy, are set to meet later this month.
  — Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2023
• All five commissioners voted against giving the public library staff a 10% bonus in March.
  — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 11 May 2023
• Several commissioners said the move did not go far enough, because most of the trouble is in beach neighborhoods.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2023
• Continuing, the commissioner added that the pairing has certainly brought a much wider fanbase to the NFL.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 22 Nov. 2023
• Javier Cazares, whose daughter, Jackie, was killed in the shooting, failed to win a county commissioner’s seat as a write-in candidate.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2023
• Each commissioner serves a four-year term, with elections for open seats held on a rotating schedule.
  — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 3 Sep. 2024
• This entity has a flag, a website, and a commissioner in London.
  — Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024