How to Use elect in a Sentence

elect

1 of 3 adjective

• It’s time to become proactive and elect people who honor labor and not just capital.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2020
• Why not just elect congressional members at-large, statewide?
  — Rich Exner, cleveland.com, 3 May 2018
• In some cases, those who are vaccinated but elect to not receive a booster would be subjected to game-day testing again starting Dec. 1, the NBA said.
  — Tim Reynolds, chicagotribune.com, 7 Nov. 2021
• The pension fund is also withholding its votes to re-elect members of the board’s audit and governance committees on grounds of failing to meet shareholder demands over climate-risk disclosures.
  — Justin Baer, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
• Alex Arshinkoff, 62, an Ohio political boss credited with mentoring a generation of young politicians and helping elect presidents, has died.
  — Philly.com, 30 Aug. 2017
• Now, many teachers have translated that energy to the realm of electoral politics, helping elect candidates who pledge to protect education funding while ousting lawmakers who opposed their causes.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Nov. 2019
• In an initial statement after the election, a GSA spokesperson said that the Biden transition team is receiving pre-elect services which include office space, computers, and background investigations for security clearances.
  — Grace Segers, CBS News, 23 Nov. 2020
• Until an ascertainment is made, the statute allows for the Biden Transition Team to continue to receive the pre-elect services from the government (e.g., limited office space, computers, background investigations for security clearances).
  — Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 8 Nov. 2020
• Republican state convention in Rochester to endorse a U.S. Senate candidate, elect national convention delegates and consider positions to be included in the party’s platform or set of policy goals.
  — Bill Salisbury, Twin Cities, 30 Dec. 2019
• Contact between presidents-elect and foreign leaders during the transition period between administrations is often the subject of close scrutiny, as in the period after the 2016 presidential election.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2020
• It’s time to become proactive and elect people who honor labor and not just capital.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2020
• Why not just elect congressional members at-large, statewide?
  — Rich Exner, cleveland.com, 3 May 2018
• In some cases, those who are vaccinated but elect to not receive a booster would be subjected to game-day testing again starting Dec. 1, the NBA said.
  — Tim Reynolds, chicagotribune.com, 7 Nov. 2021
• The pension fund is also withholding its votes to re-elect members of the board’s audit and governance committees on grounds of failing to meet shareholder demands over climate-risk disclosures.
  — Justin Baer, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
• Alex Arshinkoff, 62, an Ohio political boss credited with mentoring a generation of young politicians and helping elect presidents, has died.
  — Philly.com, 30 Aug. 2017
• Now, many teachers have translated that energy to the realm of electoral politics, helping elect candidates who pledge to protect education funding while ousting lawmakers who opposed their causes.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Nov. 2019
• In an initial statement after the election, a GSA spokesperson said that the Biden transition team is receiving pre-elect services which include office space, computers, and background investigations for security clearances.
  — Grace Segers, CBS News, 23 Nov. 2020
• Until an ascertainment is made, the statute allows for the Biden Transition Team to continue to receive the pre-elect services from the government (e.g., limited office space, computers, background investigations for security clearances).
  — Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 8 Nov. 2020
• Republican state convention in Rochester to endorse a U.S. Senate candidate, elect national convention delegates and consider positions to be included in the party’s platform or set of policy goals.
  — Bill Salisbury, Twin Cities, 30 Dec. 2019
• Contact between presidents-elect and foreign leaders during the transition period between administrations is often the subject of close scrutiny, as in the period after the 2016 presidential election.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2020
• It’s time to become proactive and elect people who honor labor and not just capital.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2020
• Why not just elect congressional members at-large, statewide?
  — Rich Exner, cleveland.com, 3 May 2018
• In some cases, those who are vaccinated but elect to not receive a booster would be subjected to game-day testing again starting Dec. 1, the NBA said.
  — Tim Reynolds, chicagotribune.com, 7 Nov. 2021
• The pension fund is also withholding its votes to re-elect members of the board’s audit and governance committees on grounds of failing to meet shareholder demands over climate-risk disclosures.
  — Justin Baer, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
• Alex Arshinkoff, 62, an Ohio political boss credited with mentoring a generation of young politicians and helping elect presidents, has died.
  — Philly.com, 30 Aug. 2017
• Now, many teachers have translated that energy to the realm of electoral politics, helping elect candidates who pledge to protect education funding while ousting lawmakers who opposed their causes.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Nov. 2019
• In an initial statement after the election, a GSA spokesperson said that the Biden transition team is receiving pre-elect services which include office space, computers, and background investigations for security clearances.
  — Grace Segers, CBS News, 23 Nov. 2020
• Until an ascertainment is made, the statute allows for the Biden Transition Team to continue to receive the pre-elect services from the government (e.g., limited office space, computers, background investigations for security clearances).
  — Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 8 Nov. 2020
• Republican state convention in Rochester to endorse a U.S. Senate candidate, elect national convention delegates and consider positions to be included in the party’s platform or set of policy goals.
  — Bill Salisbury, Twin Cities, 30 Dec. 2019
• Contact between presidents-elect and foreign leaders during the transition period between administrations is often the subject of close scrutiny, as in the period after the 2016 presidential election.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2020

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elect

2 of 3 noun

• What happened: The Bengals win the toss and elect to receive the ball.
  — Michael Niziolek, cleveland, 25 Sep. 2022
• Pat Mitchell, who is chair of Sundance’s board of trustees, and chair-elect Ebs Burnough — said in a statement.
  — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Sep. 2021
• The documents appear to show that Wolkoff planned to raise the issue of the hotel prices with the president-elect.
  — Jonathan O'Connell, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Jan. 2020
• The president-elect was late, which I'm told is unusual for him.
  — CBS News, 31 July 2019
• When the president-elect took the temporary stage on the Zócalo, people cheered and wept some more.
  — Madeleine Wattenbarger, The New Republic, 5 July 2019
• The move confused and peeved other representatives-elect on both sides of the aisle.
  — Kerry Picket, Washington Examiner, 3 Jan. 2021
• Tauzin and Whitehead said no meeting was held to nominate, much less elect, Lee and John.
  — Patrick Danner, ExpressNews.com, 19 June 2020
• Carla Sigler is the treasurer-elect for Bosque County, Texas, where the couple now lives.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Dec. 2022
• In 2018, Atiq was named chairman-elect of the board of governors of the American College of Physicians.
  — Lara Farrar, Arkansas Online, 25 Dec. 2020
• And then, in the 2018 midterms, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, now a representative-elect, took it up.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 21 Dec. 2018
• Two of the people in the room were senators-elect who won their races in last month’s election and weren’t in office when the first round of interviews happened.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Dec. 2020
• Other teams will now be able to contact Burke, who could leave the program or elect to remove his name from the portal and remain at UNT.
  — Brett Vito, Denton Record-Chronicle, 20 Oct. 2020
• But the president-elect will also capitalise on his youth.
  — The Economist, 29 Nov. 2019
• The soon-to-be president-elect emailed Meacham a bibliography of some two dozen titles.
  — Susannah Jacob, The New York Review of Books, 5 Mar. 2020
• The president-elect also noted that the agreement would have to be ratified by the congresses of both nations to go into force.
  — Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2019
• But as president-elect, Mr. López Obrador has roiled both investors and some citizens.
  — Juan Montes, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2018
• The president-elect insists that the fight against corruption will continue.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
• Communism promised an earthly paradise, and saw a working-class elect who would attain it up against a supremely evil ruling class that had to be crushed.
  — Adam Hochschild, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2022
• The congresswoman-elect from California tried to open the door to her office for the first time...and encountered some resistance.
  — Abby Gardner, Glamour, 3 Jan. 2019
• Arizona governor-elect Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, will succeed Ducey next month when his term expires.
  — Robert Barnes, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2022
• But, as commissioner-elect, López will receive only about $6,000 per year.
  — Jackie Fielder, Teen Vogue, 11 Jan. 2019
• The results matter in practical terms; Glenn Youngkin is now the governor-elect of Virginia for example.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 4 Nov. 2021
• And, worse than Morales, Guatemalan president-elect Giammattei must come to power with only 42% of voters bothering to turn up to the polls, and only 59% of them voting for him.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 12 Aug. 2019
• Over the past week, many of these congresswomen-elect have documented their moves to D.C. in the way of their generation—on social media.
  — Abby Gardner, Glamour, 3 Jan. 2019
• Trump kept his word, and Gimenez became the representative-elect for Florida's 26th.
  — Byron York, Washington Examiner, 19 Nov. 2020
• The truly elect are invited to take an occasional shot of tequila with Solomun.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
• Beachwood mayor-elect, Councilman Justin Berns, will become the city’s mayor Jan. 1.
  — cleveland, 11 Nov. 2021
• On his first day as the presumptive Hamilton County prosecutor-elect, Greg Garrison didn’t exactly tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
  — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 5 May 2022
• At this point in the poem, the veil between fiction and allegory becomes nearly transparent, as an old man named Contemplation reveals to the knight his name and his calling, as the patron saint of England and one of God’s elect.
  — Catherine Nicholson, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2021
• Like every other member of the House, McCarthy is currently a representative-elect—without a speaker, they cannot be sworn into office.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 5 Jan. 2023

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elect

3 of 3 verb

• He hopes to be elected to the committee.
• I've elected to study French as my foreign language.
• Dad was still of sound mind and elected to have the surgery.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 5 Aug. 2023
• The Janesville native was first elected to the U.S. House in 1999.
  — Andrew Hahn, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
• Wynne was first elected to the state Supreme Court in 2014.
  — Will Langhorne, Arkansas Online, 29 June 2023
• Or even the push to get Harris elected to the Senate in the first place.
  — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2024
• Around the same time in 1995, he was first elected to the local council of St.-Ouen.
  — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
• Willie and John were both elected to the Assembly the same year.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• The seven justices who serve on the court are elected through statewide races and serve eight-year terms.
  — Neal Earley, Arkansas Online, 5 Nov. 2023
• The Bills have elected to allow Miller to continue to play in the weeks since his arrest.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 29 Dec. 2023
• How many people even know Lara’s name, even though he was elected twice?
  — John Seiler, Orange County Register, 20 Mar. 2024
• He was elected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 2005.
  — Joe Eachus, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
• Trible won anyway, and then was elected to the Senate in 1982.
  — Brandi Kellam, ProPublica, 22 Dec. 2023
• The yell leaders, elected by the Aggies’ student body, lead the band and fans in what amounts to a late-night pep rally at Kyle Field.
  — Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2023
• Students whose parents elected to keep them home for the day did not have the absence counted against them.
  — Nick Sullivan, The Arizona Republic, 22 Mar. 2024
• Voters have since elected her to lead the Department of Justice three times.
  — Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2023
• He was elected to Healdsburg City Council in 2004 and became the city’s youngest mayor.
  — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• In 2008, he was first elected to the House in an uncontested election.
  — Philip Jankowski, Dallas News, 10 July 2023
• Ousting Cruz is a longshot in Texas, which has not elected a Democrat in a statewide race in nearly 30 years.
  — Time, 14 June 2023
• The deal helped pave the way for McCarthy to be elected speaker after a grueling four days and 15 rounds of voting.
  — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 1 Oct. 2023
• Youngkin, elected two years ago, is barred by the state constitution from serving back-to-back terms.
  — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023
• Candidates who receive enough votes to pass a threshold for the number of open seats are elected.
  — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
• As the mobile pizza-in-a-bag purveyor approached her table, one Oprah did not elect for a slice.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 19 Jan. 2024
• Johnson was elected in 2022 to the remaining two years on the term of former Mayor Tom Barrett.
  — Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
• So, why would one of the most powerful women in the world, Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter, elect to endure this?
  — TIME, 14 Feb. 2024
• Others elect to survive on camp rations rather than brave the ravages outside.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• If elected, Bynum would be the first Black person to represent Oregon in Congress.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 19 Sep. 2023
• Emerging from a pool of 102 candidates, Olivia Chow is the first woman of color to be elected mayor of Toronto.
  — Maria Aspan, Fortune, 28 June 2023
• As voters head to the polls this weekend in the Andean nation to elect a new president, security is top of the agenda.
  — Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Oct. 2023
• At Saturday’s event, the group of attendees also had to elect a convention chair and secretary, as well as a central committee.
  — Brianne Pfannenstiel, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024