How to Use chief in a Sentence

chief

1 of 2 adjective
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  • Her job is their chief source of income.
  • He has many concerns, chief among them his health.
  • But there is one man who has emerged as the campaign’s chief protagonist.
    — Claire Moses, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2023
  • But in making his pitch to a different crowd, Mr. Ramaswamy was blunt about Roivant’s chief aim.
    — Maureen Farrell, New York Times, 27 June 2023
  • Herb didn’t want to drive home from his job as assistant chief inspector for the city of Houston, fetch Kyrie and head back south to train in a gym.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The stiffer structure does much to reduce the squeaks and rattles that have always plagued Corvettes, but chief engineer Dave Hill didn't stop there.
    — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 7 Sep. 2023
  • And there’ve been some focus groups done in rural parts of Ohio where that in fact was one of the chief reasons people there voted against issue one.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Inflation is still too high Rates are not expected to move much in the near term, said Danielle Hale, chief economist for Realtor.com.
    — Anna Bahney, CNN, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Rory Smith is The Times’s chief soccer correspondent, based in Britain.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 2 June 2023
  • And a chief symptom of this variant is pink eye – especially in children.
    — The Enquirer, 7 July 2023
  • Posen will also serve as the chief creative officer of Gap's Old Navy brand, the company said Monday.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2024
  • One of Jaime Lozano’s chief tasks when he was put in charge of the Mexico national team last summer was to make its talent pool deeper and younger.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Of course, the chief obstacle is not a UX problem, but a capitalism problem.
    — WIRED, 19 Sep. 2023
  • As the Northern District of Texas’s chief district judge, the trial isn’t the first time his name has attracted media attention.
    — Kelli Smith, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The theme is power — girl power, teen power but also plain electricity: The chief villain tries to knock out the city power grid.
    — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Still, the housing market could have done worse, Zonda’s chief economist, Ali Wolf, told Fortune.
    — Alena Botros, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Boyd also worked as chief content officer for GoldieBlox.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Janke, former chief financial officer for the company, did the same.
    — Jmanning, oregonlive, 7 Sep. 2023
  • As a member of all the priestly colleges, the emperor was effectively the head of Roman religion as well as its chief priest.
    — Mary Beard, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • The team’s chief operating officer, Kevin Demoff, said Holmes was able to be a leader away from the machinations of football.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2023
  • But many residents still cite crime as their chief concern, and local lawmakers appear to be laser-focused on the issue.
    — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Hummel’s chief business in revealing and revisiting their bond is to show how female friendships ebb and flow and ebb again.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2023
  • The school district is planning a job fair in the next few days to hire staff for the two sites, including a chief financial officer, and four to five specialists and teachers, Thompson said.
    — Hannah Denham | Hdenham@al.com, al, 19 Sep. 2023
  • One of the cell’s chief jobs is to maintain its DNA – the instruction manual a cell’s machinery reads to produce specific proteins.
    — Ellen Quarles, Fortune Well, 7 July 2023
  • Andrew Bosworth, Meta’s chief technology officer, said in a Threads post that the company is working on fixing it.
    — Simmone Shah, Time, 7 July 2023
  • Despite such cooperation from the state, the process has been clunky and somewhat difficult for the city, said chief financial officer Matt Vespi.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2023
  • If electricity was magic, then Edison was its chief magician, at least according to the press.
    — Tara Isabella Burton, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2023
  • The opposition saw its chief leaders sidelined on criminal charges that their supporters claimed were trumped up.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Joining us now is chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa.
    — CBS News, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Mark Zandi, the chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, has been among the more bullish financial commentators since recession concerns grew in 2022.
    — Talmon Joseph Smith, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
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chief

2 of 2 noun
  • The police have not found the gun used to kill Morales, the chief said.
    — Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
  • The sergeant is now undergoing surgery, the chief said.
    — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 15 June 2023
  • The fire, the chief said, was contained within 15 minutes.
    — Owen Hassell, USA TODAY, 26 June 2023
  • But the tech chief thinks that A.I. could also make some jobs better, if it’s done right.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 12 May 2023
  • The man was pronounced dead at the scene; neither officer was hurt, said the chief.
    — Christopher Cann, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Both Newton and the chief testified that the mayor did not ask him to change the police report.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 31 May 2023
  • Reeder will now remain as CFO through the end of the year to support the selection of a new finance chief.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 12 July 2023
  • Gill, 52, is the chief for the Virginia Beach Lifesaving Service and has been an ocean lifeguard for 34 years.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The chief, in a memo, cited a shortage of patrol officers as the main reason.
    — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2023
  • The lawsuit, the police chief told Kessel that the department planned to disband the canine unit and that the officer could have Bosco.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The new chief’s initial reading of the situation was bleak.
    — Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Her husband went to check in on the status of the search at the police station and lo and behold, there was Bernie, nestled in the police chief's arms.
    — Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
  • Bank of America’s Brian Moynihan was the only chief to get a salary cut.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2024
  • And as finance chief, he’s had to lead through transformation.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The police chief, his top lieutenant and more than half of the force resigned or were forced out within two weeks of AL.com’s initial story.
    — Al.com Staff, al, 8 May 2023
  • Mother has filed lawsuit Nakala Murry filed a suit against the city, the police chief and the officer accused of the shooting.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 13 June 2023
  • Mankiller was the nation’s first female principal chief, leading the tribe for a decade until 1995.
    — Sean Murphy, Fortune, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The chief said at least one other firefighter was inside the station when the shooting happened.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 12 July 2023
  • In the foreground Musk can be seen in conversation with Tesla design chief Franz von Holzhausen.
    — Jon Porter, The Verge, 20 July 2023
  • Some in the crowd, the police chief added, lit fireworks during the chaos and one or two police officers had to be removed from the crowd because of injuries.
    — Gene Park, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Miller added that Colonel Michael Winquist, the police chief, was aware of the previous stalking incidents.
    — Steph MacHado, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
  • The driver, described only as a 16-year-old boy, was hospitalized and is likely to recover, the chief said.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 18 June 2023
  • The story involves the daughter of a village chief returning to life and bringing with her the ritual of blood sacrifice.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Berlin police chief Barbara Slowik says authorities feared that certain groups would join the event and use it as an excuse to commit crimes.
    — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 30 Dec. 2023
  • The court found in part that circumstances for Black residents had improved since the firing of its former police chief Sam Dobbins.
    — Nick Valencia, CNN, 14 June 2023
  • Airline chiefs have been complaining about Boeing’s spate of safety and quality issues for the past few months.
    — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The police Use of Force Review Board includes, among others, seven members appointed by the police chief, three by the mayor and two by the council.
    — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Arm chief Rene Haas said yesterday that the chip embargo will be tricky to get right because of the complexity of what goes onto circuit boards.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The acting chief said a suspect’s handcuffs are typically removed at the hospital, so that one hand can be handcuffed to the gurney or bed.
    — Holly Yan, CNN, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Absentees There are four players who are eligible to play but won’t feature – chief among them, Tiger Woods.
    — Jack Bantock, CNN, 14 Mar. 2024

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