How to Use president-elect in a Sentence

president-elect

noun

• The president-elect’s promise to oppose any and all tax hikes was made in writing.
  — Jonas Torrico, National Review, 5 Dec. 2023
• Guatemala’s president-elect is finding out in real time.
  — Sandra Cuffe, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2023
• Back in the dawn of the Trump era — just prior to his 2017 inauguration — the line of would-be suck-ups queuing up for face time with the president-elect included a man with a distinguished name.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2023
• Justin Brown, president-elect of the Brookline Educators Union and fourth-grade teacher, said some teachers are wary of adding more standards to their already-full plates.
  — Dharna Noor, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
• The flights by China’s air force also come as Paraguay’s president-elect, Santiago Peña, visits the island.
  — Time, 12 July 2023
• In 2023, the Czech Republic’s president-elect even spoke with Taiwan’s president, becoming the first European head of state to do so.
  — David Sacks, Foreign Affairs, 10 Jan. 2024
• Working at Apple wasn't in my plans, but to see a CEO who cared so much about environmentalism reminded me in many ways of talking to the president-elect.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Apr. 2023
• Kellyanne Conway addresses the press from the lobby as the president-elect holds meetings upstairs, November 2016.
  — Curbed, 2 Oct. 2023
• The first to congratulate the president-elect was the outgoing president, Mario Abdo Benítez.
  — Débora Rey, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 May 2023
• There is a very real possibility that Donald J. Trump can be your president-elect.
  — Fox News, 4 Apr. 2024
• But in the moment, everyone is acting like Mencken is the president-elect, and the brothers Roy are both rationalizing their roles in making that happen.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2023
• After Trump won, Romney dined with Trump to discuss Romney becoming the president-elect’s secretary of state.
  — Michelle L. Price, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2023
• So, too, will what comes next, as the new president-elect confronts a daunting challenge: to demonstrate that democracy works, that democracy can deliver.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2024
• Taiwan’s president-elect, Lai Ching-te, who takes office next month, visited Hualien on Wednesday and said the government’s top priority was to rescue those trapped.
  — Vic Chiang, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
• In the days that followed, a curious parade of politicians and celebrities journeyed to Trump Tower to meet the president-elect and, for weeks after, predictions about his presidency were rampant.
  — Matt Sedensky, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2023
• Many policymakers have questioned the decision in the past, including president-elect Alexander Stubb, although the country has no current plans to pull out of the convention.
  — Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
• For more information about the election, president-elect candidates, and petition process, visit the IEEE election website.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 12 Jan. 2024
• This goes beyond the usual transition planning that every president-elect does from November to January.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 2 Nov. 2023
• Gomes predicts America’s $34 trillion debt burden may upset the world’s financial markets as early as next year—should a president-elect announce a raft of expensive policies.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2024
• By law, only the sitting president, vice president, president-elect and vice president-elect cannot decline protection.
  — Donald J. Mihalek, ABC News, 5 Apr. 2023
• The two leaders discussed Taiwan ahead of next month’s inauguration of Lai Ching-te, the island’s president-elect, who has vowed to safeguard its de-facto independence from China and further align it with other democracies.
  — Zeke Miller, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2024
• During the weeks after Congress counts the votes and before Inauguration Day, a winning candidate's running mate becomes the president and will be inaugurated in the case of the president-elect becoming unable to serve.
  — USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2024
• His resignation would be irrevocable and take effect the day the president-elect is inaugurated in 2025, even if DeSantis were to lose in the primary or general election.
  — Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 25 Apr. 2023
• When other news organizations ultimately declared Biden the president-elect on the Saturday morning after the election, Fox waited about 15 minutes.
  — David Bauder, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2023
• Argentina’s president-elect promised to rebuild the country, reconcile fiscal accounts and bring liberty to long-suffering Argentines.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 26 Nov. 2023
• The president-elect also exhibited a recurrent antisemitism, sometimes in Kissinger’s presence.
  — Norman Kempster, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• Nigeria’s ruling party candidate, Bola Tinubu, was declared president-elect of Africa’s most populous nation in the early hours of Wednesday after a weekend election that the main opposition parties have disputed.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 1 Mar. 2023
• The president-elect thanked his supporters in the capital, Abuja, after his victory was announced and struck a reconciliatory tone in a message directed at his political adversaries.
  — Chinedu Asadu, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Mar. 2023
• Unprecedented questions about criminal trials or sentences for a president-elect might end up presented to a court that now has a conservative majority, including three justices appointed by Trump.
  — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2023
• However, a victory in November's presidential election would undoubtedly give him more sway over the ensuing leadership race, and Republican senators would be under significant pressure to elevate the president-elect's preferred choice.
  — Stefan Becket, CBS News, 29 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024