How to Use appointee in a Sentence

appointee

noun
  • The appointee will serve out the rest of Lieberman's two-year term.
    — Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Per state law, the school board votes on an appointee to fill the opening until the end of the board term.
    — Mj Slaby, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Ann Hsu, Breed’s third appointee, was in third with nearly 19% of the vote.
    — Chronicle Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Biden’s first appointee to the court was Koh, the judge Obama had tried to appoint to Pregerson’s seat.
    — Kevin Rectorstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Days after firing eight Joe Biden-era appointees from the board of the U.S.
    — Andrew Lapin, Sun Sentinel, 5 May 2025
  • The appointee would have to run for election in 2022 to retain the council seat.
    — Staff Reports, The Arizona Republic, 19 Dec. 2021
  • Since then, the new appointees have taken steps to void those agreements.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Wray, who was already leading the FBI at the time, is also a Trump appointee.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
  • Califf, a Biden appointee, will step down when Trump takes office.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The panel was made up of two Obama appointees and a George W. Bush appointee.
    — Priscilla Alvarez, CNN, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The ruling was 2 to 1; both judges in the majority are Trump appointees.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2024
  • The last school board seat was vacant at the time of the vote but has since been filled by appointee Felicia Stolusky.
    — Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 30 June 2022
  • All three are DeSantis appointees, as are Muñiz and Couriel.
    — Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Two of the five Supreme Court justices who ruled against the state were Republican appointees.
    — Kyle Whitmire | Kwhitmire@al.com, al, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The justices reorient to the latest appointee and, in turn, to each other.
    — Melissa MacAya, CNN, 25 Feb. 2022
  • That means Johnson — a Democratic appointee — will be out of a job soon.
    — Fox News, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Wesson and his appointee were just two among many who had influence over the line-drawing process, the court wrote.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2022
  • Portela was a Burke-era appointee to the case, having been put on the investigation in 2013.
    — Gus Garcia-Roberts, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The appointee will finish out the term of board President Larry Loschen.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2021
  • As luck would have it, the panel included two Trump appointees.
    — Nina Totenberg, NPR, 15 May 2024
  • DeWine’s other appointee, Richard Chernesky, was not sworn in at the meeting due to an illness.
    — cleveland, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Circuit Judge Kevin Newsom, a Trump appointee, was having none of it.
    — CNN, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Albert was the second Bowser appointee to the board to depart under duress.
    — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2021
  • And the Heritage Foundation compiled a 900-plus-page tome that gets a lot of potential appointees on the record.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
  • The Trump transition team has not yet commented on its appointees’ ties to Project 2025.
    — Alison Durkee, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The court’s Republican appointees came to the case skeptical of the Chevron doctrine.
    — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
  • Russians replaced the mayor with their own appointee last month.
    — Marisa Schultz, Fox News, 14 May 2022
  • Estrada, a Biden appointee, did not agree to partner with Weiss on the case in California when Weiss asked him to do so last year.
    — Sarah Bedford, Washington Examiner, 16 Nov. 2023
  • In recent weeks, Hegseth’s main detractors have been other Trump appointees.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 May 2025
  • The nine-person panel of mayoral appointees — two landlord reps, two tenant reps and five public ones — is tasked with weighing the interests of both sides, and decided in a 5-4 vote all but drowned out by the crowd of tenants.
    — Téa Kvetenadze, New York Daily News, 1 May 2025

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