How to Use officeholder in a Sentence

officeholder

noun

• The law calls for the petitions to be filed in the appellate court where the state officeholder lives.
  — John Caniglia, cleveland, 21 Sep. 2021
• The first asks a yes-or-no question: Shall the officeholder be recalled?
  — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2021
• The officeholder can file to run for re-election in early 2022.
  — oregonlive, 8 Aug. 2020
• But not every officeholder gets a break, even if members of their own party help draw the maps.
  — Brittany Shepherd, ABC News, 11 June 2022
• The highest officeholder should think about these words.
  — Jm Rieger, Twin Cities, 24 Oct. 2019
• It’s part of a larger drive to make sure every GOP officeholder, from senators to city councils, is loyal to the Trump cause.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2021
• Isom has been involved in enough campaigns to know that beating a sitting officeholder is tough.
  — Matt Canham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 July 2021
• Lemelin said this part would be a constant reminder of the officeholder's power and the country's history.
  — Katherine Doyle, Washington Examiner, 5 Apr. 2021
• But that can ruffle feathers in the context of a campaign where officeholders are expected to lock arms with those in their own party.
  — Joseph Morton, Dallas News, 4 May 2023
• And in an election year for many state officeholders, the politics of pot legalization look all the more complex.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2020
• She was born a bit earlier, in 1925, and followed a more traditional route to power, as the wife of a president, not the officeholder.
  — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2023
• The appointment came with the understanding that the officeholder would not be a candidate for the position in the next election.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2022
• Masks are mandatory in the building, except in legislative offices, where the officeholder may set the rules.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Oct. 2021
• The two current officeholders, Hawira and Keria Ponga, came to the gathering to speak about their ongoing work.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 18 Feb. 2023
• This is a key question for structuring a campaign against the sitting officeholder.
  — David Mark, Washington Examiner, 28 Dec. 2023
• The nine-member council now includes five first-time officeholders.
  — Stephanie Ebbert, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2020
• With a state party that’s moving steadily toward the left, all three are on the moderate end of Democratic officeholders.
  — John Wildermuth, SFChronicle.com, 10 Oct. 2019
• Amo appears to be trending at the right time, Cano seems to have the best ground game, and Matos, the only statewide officeholder in the field, has seen hundreds of thousands of dollars in outside money spent on her behalf over the past two months.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
• Several other officeholders did not have anyone sign up to run against them.
  — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 14 Dec. 2019
• Anyone who follows Texas politics will not be surprised that Patrick is the first senior officeholder to break from the narrative.
  — David Blackmon, Forbes, 29 June 2021
• Instead of running for Congress, a someone could run for a job that a current officeholder must relinquish.
  — Anthony Man, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Apr. 2021
• The Secretary of State, which declined to comment, has not published guidance for a scenario in which a current officeholder runs as a write-in candidate.
  — Dallas News, 1 Nov. 2022
• Harris is the nation's top-most current Black officeholder.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2021
• But the law’s reach is much broader than that and could have affected officeholder votes on grants through the county’s Neighborhood Reinvestment Program under the process that will soon change.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 June 2023
• Although Bass cannot raise more than $1,800 per donor for her officeholder account, the Mayor’s Fund is allowed by law to collect unlimited sums.
  — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2023
• Statewide officeholders, members of the Legislature and election officials in Arizona may soon get added to that list.
  — Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 3 May 2023
• Lyle Larson has been a Republican officeholder in Texas for 23 years.
  — Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Oct. 2021
• Fouraker, a first-time officeholder elected in March, didn’t explain what prompted the apology and didn’t return calls for comment.
  — Stephen Hudak, orlandosentinel.com, 21 Nov. 2019
• The current officeholder, Democrat Katie Hobbs, could have sought a second term but is instead running for governor.
  — Melissa Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 1 Nov. 2021
• The fact that Trump isn’t the only former officeholder who took classified documents home will matter.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024