How to Use supervision in a Sentence

supervision

noun
  • She's responsible for the supervision of a large staff.
  • Young children need constant supervision.
  • Once the scooter is ready to ride, supervision is key for your on-the-go kid.
    Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Sound and image weren’t always in sync, but the stage show (under the music supervision of Michael J. Moritz Jr.) never missed a beat.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2024
  • As part of his bond supervision, a judge ordered him to surrender any firearms.
    Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Some of the jobs pay low median wages, such as retail supervision (No. 9).
    Brianna Herlihy, Fox News, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The agreement was that Kip could use it only with his father’s supervision.
    Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Brostrom ordered Walton to serve eight years in prison and four years of extended supervision for the homicide charge.
    Chris Ramirez, Journal Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2024
  • In a statement, Michael S. Barr, vice chair for supervision, greeted the results in a measured fashion.
    Bysheryl Estrada, Fortune, 30 June 2023
  • He was then sent back to Coalinga until a hearing on the matter could be held and while his supervision and housing was discussed.
    Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2024
  • And since then, Snapchat — like other platforms — has rolled out a variety of new teen safety and parental supervision tools.
    Clare Duffy, CNN, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The pills can be taken and the fetus delivered at home without supervision from a doctor.
    Patrick Hauf, Fox News, 20 July 2023
  • That’s more than double the number of children with court supervision living at home for all other months of 2023 combined.
    Scooty Nickerson, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2024
  • While kids under the age of 13 should not use these floats without supervision, the four ring floats and two inflatable beach balls in this set are perfect for everyone.
    Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Most metro Phoenix cities have restrictions on the times minors can be in public without parental supervision.
    Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The tablets or drops are taken under medical supervision the first time, then daily at home.
    Christiane Gelitz, Scientific American, 4 May 2023
  • The worker pleaded guilty last year to misdemeanor battery and received 12 months of court supervision.
    Molly Parker, ProPublica, 11 July 2023
  • Most children who drown do so under the supervision of an adult, who may have been checking a phone, watching TV or thinking that another adult was watching the kids.
    Douglas MacMillan, Washington Post, 16 July 2023
  • Often this supervision arrived in the form of informal cooking lessons, teaching the basics.
    Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Michael Barr, the central bank's vice chair for supervision, is set to testify before the Senate committee on Thursday.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 16 May 2023
  • Fences around the festival grounds, drones and a teen supervision policy were implemented for the event, which was held in the south parking lot of the village’s 80th Avenue Metra station.
    Mike Nolan, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2023
  • Process supervision, which involves training an AI model to break down the steps needed to solve a problem, can improve an algorithm’s chances of getting the right answer.
    Will Knight, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Reichardt peppers Showing Up with scenes of Lizzy sculpting in her garage and art students honing their craft under the supervision of instructors at the college.
    Vikram Murthi, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Until then, their investments must be held under the supervision of an adult in what's known as a custodial account.
    Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2023
  • And Agnes is trying and failing to the learn the ropes of her new lifestyle of fishing and homemaking, and isn’t helped by the constant interfering supervision of her mother-in-law (Maria Hofstätter).
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Peter Schwartz was officially sentenced to 14 years and two months behind bars, followed by three years of supervision.
    Justin Klawans, The Week, 6 May 2023
  • The review, conducted by Michael Barr, the Fed’s vice chair for supervision, placed the bulk of the blame for the bank’s crash on lax oversight by regulators and mismanagement by executives.
    Daniel Gilbert, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
  • Now, two former Fed officials who spent decades with the central bank are making the case that regulators’ supervision of U.S. lenders has been eroding for years amid a culture shift.
    Will Daniel, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The Supreme Court has operated since its creation without a formal code of ethics, and largely without supervision.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
  • But state sponsorship has now brought state supervision.
    Ian Johnson, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023

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