How to Use in charge of in a Sentence

in charge of

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  • Which, from now on, means Birch & Alder is in charge of lunch.
    — Mara Severin | Eating Out, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2023
  • Raine was also in charge of the sale of Chelsea FC last year.
    — David Hellier, Fortune, 1 May 2023
  • That would be the point person or the person who is in charge of the fire that day.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Who has been in charge of bringing Slick City to Wauwatosa?
    — Claudia Levens, Journal Sentinel, 28 Dec. 2024
  • The band wasn’t going to be in charge of the film elements; that was not their thing.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The key is to put people in charge of the direction AI will take with their jobs.
    — Joe McKendrick, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Who was in charge of selecting the court, TCU and Oregon?
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Put Thomas Massie in charge of a new Frank Church committee.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 3 May 2023
  • Put Thomas Massie in charge of a new Frank Church committee.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 3 May 2023
  • Levesque at present is in charge of the company’s creative.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The coach in charge of Thursday’s session is Dmytro Rzondkovsky.
    — Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The military is in charge of Sudan, but the RSF wants a stronger role in running the country.
    — George Petras, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Your wife is in charge of herself, her patients and her friendships.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Insulin is the hormone that is in charge of managing glucose in the blood.
    — Mónica Heras, Vogue, 7 Mar. 2025
  • But the aid groups in charge of the rollout say that the most critical factor is a pause in airstrikes in order to reach all the kids in Gaza.
    — Aya Batrawy, NPR, 31 Aug. 2024
  • As a child, my aunt worked for Grumman, for the man who was in charge of designing and building the LEM module.
    — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 3 May 2024
  • Ramsay was annoyed to see Grant, who was in charge of grilling the burgers, sticking cooked burgers in the oven.
    — Kturnqui, oregonlive, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The seven-member board will be in charge of deciding who will take his place.
    — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Blake is in charge of the marketing for Anheuser-Busch’s mainstream brands.
    — David Wysong, The Enquirer, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Rosé is back in charge of the Official Singles Downloads chart this week.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • But Solana isn’t in charge of actually taking down the fakes.
    — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 3 Jan. 2024
  • And he’s been in charge of this five-year rebuild, as Hyde points out, that hasn’t even resulted in a playoff win.
    — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The al-Thani family was in charge of parts of Qatar since the 1800s and increased its power while the area was a British protectorate.
    — Ruby Mellen, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
  • Anyone can add expenses, see who’s on the hook for what, and settle up, as no one person is in charge of the group.
    — Wes Davis, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Politics, claimed the man in charge of the sidewalk, had nothing to do with it: Robeson simply wasn’t well enough known.
    — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2024
  • The duo is once again in charge of a competitive radio ranking.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Gideon Lichfield: But there are people in charge of the exchanges when bitcoin is traded.
    — Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Perun was placed in charge of running the assault missions for those who remained.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • After mulling a proposal from the leaders of the men’s and women’s tennis tours to restructure the sport, the people in charge of the four Grand Slams have sent back a terse rejection that leaves the sport’s future in a state of paralysis.
    — Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Witkoff confirmed that Adam Boehler, special envoy in charge of hostages, had been involved in the recent negotiations attempting to secure the second phase of the ceasefire agreement which is supposed to see the release of the remaining hostages.
    — Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 7 Mar. 2025

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