How to Use prefect in a Sentence

prefect

noun

• The prefect left, and the talk slowed and stumbled into the night as sleep took hold.
  — Ian McEwan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
• Mike Gilbert, who has known O’Connor since the pair were 11, tells a story about the day the school prefects were announced.
  — Gaby Wood, Vogue, 17 Aug. 2023
• The prefect of the Var region, Evence Richard, told reporters that two people were killed.
  — Arkansas Online, 19 Aug. 2021
• The body of a woman was pulled from the mud, the Naples prefect, Claudio Palomba, told a news conference.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 27 Nov. 2022
• Under Benedict, he was named the prefect of the papal household—the gatekeeper to the Pope.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2023
• The Naples prefect, Claudio Palomba, said on Sunday that 15 homes had been overwhelmed by the stream of mud.
  — Colleen Barry, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2022
• The prefect of police for Paris is an old acquaintance of Gamache’s and at first seems an ideal ally.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2020
• In recent months, the prefect of Oursi and the mayor of Koutougou, both rural communes in Soum province, have been killed.
  — Brahima Ouedraogo, Fox News, 15 Aug. 2018
• So a female chef de cabinet (head of staff) is now une cheffe, and a female préfet (prefect) is une préfète.
  — The Economist, 17 May 2018
• The tone of his letter seems to indicate that age and solitude have mellowed the once high-handed prefect.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2022
• The older two turned out to be rebels—her brother got kicked out of school for throwing rotten tomatoes at the prefect; her sister eloped at age 18.
  — Evgenia Peretz, Vanities, 19 Apr. 2017
• The letter was signed by the Vatican prefect and the secretary before the pope approved the text on Thursday and released the note Monday.
  — Cassidy Morrison, Washington Examiner, 21 Dec. 2020
• The Naples prefect confirmed that the death toll in the tragedy had risen to two, following also the recovery of the body of a 31-year-old woman from the island on Saturday.
  — Colleen Barry, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2022
• This list was given to prefects, who then put pressure on booksellers and publishers to purge their stocks.
  — Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Slate Magazine, 20 Jan. 2017
• Regional prefect Alexandre Rochatte said the body was found on a roadside after a home washed away in the capital of Basse-Terre.
  — DÁnica Coto, ajc, 17 Sep. 2022
• In the ancient city of Yaroslavl, on the Volga, the local mayor and a member of the United Russia party told district prefects to lead by example.
  — The Economist, 3 Feb. 2018
• The deputy prefect of the community of Kumba, Ali Anougou, blamed separatists who have been fighting the military in parts of western Cameroon.
  — Joel Kouam, Star Tribune, 24 Oct. 2020
• Much like real journalists might, the fake ones took a load off on the bases of the columns near the home to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, where Benedict worked as prefect before his election as pope.
  — New York Times, 9 May 2018
• Paris’s police prefect has released photos of union members ripping up paving stones to be used as projectiles.
  — Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 18 June 2016
• During her research, Jatta reached out to the Vatican Library for some loans and soon developed a rapport with its prefect.
  — Anton Corbijn, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2018
• And the fact that most people will suspect neither its capabilities nor its expense is the prefect final reason to buy it.
  — Hannah Elliott, Bloomberg.com, 22 May 2017
• Paris was rebuilt by Baron Haussmann, his Alsatian prefect.
  — Allan Massie, WSJ, 29 May 2018
• The prefect of Guadeloupe said 11 people were arrested by police overnight Sunday into Monday.
  — Elodie Soupama, ajc, 22 Nov. 2021
• The prefect of Dirkou locality, Bachir Manzo, said Thursday that the dead included three babies, two children and 17 women.
  — The Associated Press, The Seattle Times, 1 June 2017
• Oxfam cited the case of 20 unaccompanied African youths returned to Italy — and a court decision this year in Nice that overruled France’s regional prefect who ordered them out.
  — Washington Post, 15 June 2018
• The clarification was issued Sept. 5 by Semeraro, who is the prefect of the Vatican’s saint-making office.
  — Monika Scislowska, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2023
• Francis created the Secretariat for the Economy, and named Pell its prefect, as a key part of his financial reform plans after being elected pope in 2013.
  — Rod McGuirk, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2020
• In their first iteration, public urinals were phallic-looking columns commissioned by a Parisian city prefect fed up with the flocks of Frenchmen who regularly peed on sidewalks, streets and even the sides of buildings.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 7 Dec. 2019
• In February, after his conviction became public, the Church confirmed that his position as the prefect of its secretariat for the economy had not been renewed.
  — Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 20 Aug. 2019
• The Naples prefect confirmed that five people remained missing, and feared buried under the debris of an enormous landslide that struck Casamicciola before dawn on Saturday.
  — Bloomberg.com, 27 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024