How to Use incumbent in a Sentence

incumbent

1 of 2 noun

• Voters will have the chance to see the incumbent and her opponent in a series of three debates.
• Incumbents often have an advantage in elections.
• The incumbent in the race, Cindy Davis, took the lead with 53% of the vote.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 June 2022
• This was the third time an incumbent has not been in the race.
  — Zachary Smith, cleveland, 14 Nov. 2022
• The incumbent had served on the council for a dozen years.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 3 May 2023
• Brown was the incumbent and won with 51 percent of the vote.
  — Gordon R. Friedman, OregonLive.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• The incumbent filed on Jan. 22 and is seeking a third term.
  — Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Feb. 2021
• That’s part of the challenge of not being the incumbent.
  — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 25 Sep. 2022
• Bell, as an incumbent, lost a runoff to Woodfin in 2017.
  — al, 9 July 2021
• Does the incumbent have a track record of leading projects?
  — Celeste Pewter, Teen Vogue, 3 Nov. 2017
• Townsend, the incumbent, hit his first punt just 34 yards.
  — Matt Kawahara, SFChronicle.com, 10 Aug. 2019
• How did Woodfin earn 1,645 more votes than the incumbent?
  — Erin Edgemon, AL.com, 27 Aug. 2017
• The incumbent led with more than 55 percent of the total.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2022
• Raman won enough votes to force a runoff in the fall against incumbent David Ryu.
  — NBC News, 14 June 2020
• But that was a jump-ball election, with no incumbent in the race.
  — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Nov. 2020
• Patients would feel overwhelmed by the task and the power of the incumbents.
  — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• One big given is the presence of an incumbent in the race.
  — Craig Gilbert, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2017
• The Fox and News Corp. of today no longer seem to be the challenger brands, taking on the incumbents.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Sep. 2023
• Think of it, rather, as a show of reverence for the incumbents.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 20 Dec. 2017
• Many who would likely have voted for the incumbent crossed the aisle to vote blue.
  — Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post, 8 July 2020
• Nine of the twelve incumbents who sought reëlection won.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2020
• Curtis Clements, the incumbent, was the only person who filed to run for the seat.
  — Al Gaspeny, Arkansas Online, 3 Mar. 2023
• Still, the incumbent is short of the 61 seats needed to form a viable coalition.
  — Sam Sokol, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Sep. 2019
• Biden isn’t the first incumbent to face grim polling a year out from Election Day.
  — Jazmine Ulloa, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2023
• But the challenger agreed with the incumbent on how much the Georgia runoffs matter.
  — Bill Barrow, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Jan. 2021
• Their main duty is to elect a new pope when the incumbent dies or resigns.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 7 June 2022
• Advertisement At the polls, the incumbent’s track record seemed to be enough for some.
  — Olivia Diaz, Washington Post, 21 June 2023
• Only two of the three incumbents have filed for re-election.
  — Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2020
• But incumbents weren't the only one who came out on top Tuesday.
  — Daniel Bice, Journal Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2024
• In local congressional districts, all four incumbents secured their spot in their runoffs.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2024

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incumbent

2 of 2 adjective

• And two, one of the Rangers’ incumbent starters may find their way into a bullpen role.
  — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2023
• Democrats can afford to lose just one of the 23 incumbent seats on the map next year and stay in power.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 9 Aug. 2023
• Both ran to replace incumbent Jian Sun, who chose not to run again.
  — Alec Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2023
• Might be incumbent on the defense to force those turnovers for this game to end Wisconsin's way.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2021
• Demings tore into the incumbent senator, who holds a small lead in the polls ahead of the Nov. 8 election.
  — Skyler Swisher, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Oct. 2022
• This election will be the first time in 36 years that an incumbent mayor has not been on the ballot in Dearborn.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 30 Oct. 2021
• Williams also beat out incumbent starter N'Kosi Perry for the job.
  — Jeremy Cluff, azcentral, 13 Aug. 2019
• Johnson was twenty years younger, and as the incumbent mayor, didn’t seem to be doing a bad job.
  — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 18 July 2019
• But at some point, many of the incumbent figures will have to face the specter of their eventual replacements.
  — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2020
• Last month, the incumbent president, Macky Sall, had called off the election with only three weeks to go.
  — Mady Camara, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024
• Ashford gets the benefit of the doubt as the incumbent starter, having started nine games for the Tigers last season.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 28 Feb. 2023
• The city has also re-elected an incumbent council member and brought a new face to the panel.
  — J.d. Duggan, Twin Cities, 5 Nov. 2019
• In four of those races, there is an incumbent governor who is a woman.
  — Sarah Ewall-Wice, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2022
• Plumlee beat out incumbent starter Mikey Keene after weeks of battling back and forth for the top spot in training camp.
  — Jason Beede, Orlando Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2022
• And each portrays the other as someone who would lose to the incumbent governor.
  — Steven Lemongello, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2022
• But the point is, it’s incumbent upon a sports executive to try.
  — Steve Jbara, Forbes, 3 June 2022
• The state party chair in Texas, at least as of today, and there's a new one, is challenging the incumbent governor.
  — NBC News, 11 July 2021
• For the first time in Senegal’s history, the incumbent president is not on the ballot.
  — Rachel Chason, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2024
• Lori Lightfoot, the incumbent Chicago mayor, received only 17% of the vote last week in the first round of balloting and failed to advance to the runoff.
  — William A. Galston, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2023
• The news of Amazon’s entry had a predictable effect on incumbent firms.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2018
• Even Baidu, the incumbent market leader with a 70% market share, is in trouble.
  — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2019
• And the incumbent governor said, in contrast, his progress has been solid.
  — Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Oct. 2022
• Two incumbent Democrats are also facing off against each other in the same district, and only one of them can come back.
  — Cayla Harris, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Dec. 2021
• Just about 60% of voters in each state think Sanders would be likely to defeat the incumbent president.
  — Josh Boak and Hannah Fingerhut, SFChronicle.com, 11 Mar. 2020
• The public’s pessimism is bad for the incumbent governor.
  — Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 10 June 2022
• Still, the incumbent senator has maintained a small lead in most surveys.
  — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2020
• The incumbent mayor, Joyce Craig, isn’t running for re-election.
  — Steven Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
• And oddly enough this time, Musk is copying some of his incumbent rivals, rather than blazing his own trail.
  — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 16 Aug. 2023
• The incumbent president's high fundraising this year comes as he is locked in a tight rematch with Trump, with most national and state polls showing the race is close between the two men .
  — Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2024
• The numbers looked much different in the early months of 2020, when Trump was the incumbent president and Democrats were choosing their nominee.
  — Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024