How to Use preside in a Sentence

preside

verb

• Court is now in session, Justice Raul Fernandez presiding.
• The move, announced in a letter to the presiding judge, clears the way for the FTX founder to be sentenced on March 28.
  — Corinne Ramey, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2023
• There’s a strong chance that presiding judges will have UW ties.
  — Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2023
• Pope Francis will preside over the Mass, in just one of the day’s novel aspects.
  — Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2023
• The presiding judge has not yet ruled on whether bail will be granted.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 11 May 2023
• The mayor shall preside over all meetings of the council but shall not have a vote on the council.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 9 Sep. 2021
• The circuit’s chief judge, Ellen Masters, will preside over the grand jury.
  — Jim Saunders, Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2022
• But a month later, the presiding judge in the case ordered a surprise drug test.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
• Cahill, who was appointed to the bench in 2007 and elected the following year, will preside over the case.
  — NBC News, 26 Mar. 2021
• Francis was to preside over a liturgy of the word service there late Tuesday and bless the waters.
  — Nicole Winfield, Anchorage Daily News, 26 July 2022
• In their brief to presiding Judge Philip S. Gutierrez, the plaintiffs say not so fast.
  — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 19 July 2024
• Patrick, who is president of the Senate, will preside as judge.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 30 May 2023
• Then, in 1332 B.C.E., Tutankhamun ascended the throne at the age of eight or nine to preside over a nation in upheaval.
  — Zach Zorich, Scientific American, 4 Nov. 2022
• The presiding judge then sustained the line of questioning.
  — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 25 Mar. 2023
• The presiding Circuit Court judge sentenced him to 168 years in prison.
  — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 22 Mar. 2024
• The city’s Black leaders preside on the other side, starting with Johnson.
  — Joshua Lott, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2023
• The justices of the peace who preside over hearings are trained in eviction law but do not have to be attorneys.
  — Jessica Boehm, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2021
• Doctors will preside over weigh-in and pre- and post-bout physical checks.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 25 Apr. 2022
• Courts in these towns took in at least 10% of the budget in one year, but town employees confirmed that the mayor still presided there.
  — Samantha Sunne, ProPublica, 14 Dec. 2023
• Then, since the House still hasn’t picked a speaker, Johnson will preside from the dais over actual vote for Speaker.
  — Fox News, 8 Dec. 2022
• Putin must know that he is set to preside over an embarrassment.
  — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 2 May 2022
• The late-night talk show host will preside over the ceremony in March, the show’s producers said Monday.
  — Lindsey Bahr, Chicago Tribune, 7 Nov. 2022
• Last night, Viserys arrives to preside over the debate over the succession of Driftmark, and by proxy, his own throne.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
• Justices of the peace, who preside over the justice courts, are elected and do not have to have a law degree or legal background.
  — AZCentral.com, 15 June 2021
• Stevens will preside over a coalition made up of nine Democrats and eight Republicans.
  — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Jan. 2023
• The court is now on the hunt to hire more hearing officers to preside over more than 6,000 civil traffic court cases a year.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2022
• The judges who preside over these courtrooms are similar to justices of the peace in other states and are not required to have a law degree.
  — Caleb Bedillion, ProPublica, 7 Oct. 2022
• The case hasn’t even started and the presiding judge has already lost his patience with Fox’s legal team and put them on notice.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 14 Apr. 2023
• Retired Senior Judge James Welsh was then appointed to preside over the case.
  — NBC News, 9 Nov. 2021
• During the trial, a brazen effort by the Nixon White House to influence the presiding judge backfired.
  — Ben Bradlee Jr., The New Yorker, 16 June 2023

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024