How to Use applicant in a Sentence

applicant

noun
  • We interviewed 30 qualified applicants for the job.
  • The city said it had been approached with the plan by an unnamed applicant.
    Noah Goldbergstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The applicant can then select one of the options to move forward with.
    Mia Taylor, Fortune, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Anthony Ori of the 700 block of Hastings Street was the applicant for the amendment to the zoning code.
    Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Half of the applicants face denial, sometimes more than once.
    Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2024
  • To qualify for the subsidy, an applicant must be at least 55 years old and the head of household.
    Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The applicant is named as Apple Inc, though not much else is revealed.
    David Phelan, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Hrvatin said the other woman applicant is in the background check phase.
    Arkansas Online, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Get clear on what sets you apart from fellow applicants.
    Dr. Kyle Elliott, Mpa, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • But some applicants could need to answer as few as 18 questions and be able to do so in less than 10 minutes.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Most of those applicants likely purchased their homes in the past two years, when rates rose sharply from the record lows seen in the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic.
    Diana Olick, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Mayor Steve Vaus moved that an appointment be made with the proviso that the applicants sign a pledge not to run in the next election.
    Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2023
  • The San Diego couple was the sole consumption lounge applicant.
    Tammy Murgareporter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Dec. 2022
  • At the end of two years, an applicant can renew their resident permit for a three-year term.
    Chrishan Wright, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The scholarship funds part of the application process to a business school of the applicants choosing.
    Matt Symonds, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Two out-of-state applicants had been issued vouchers so far.
    Juliette Rihl, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The firearms safety course requires an in-person demonstration that the applicant has knowledge of how to load and fire a weapon.
    oregonlive, 7 Dec. 2022
  • More than half of its recent applicants had a weight-loss focus on their website.
    Julia Ingram, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2024
  • In its first year, the program had 49 applicants and 19 graduates.
    IEEE Spectrum, 25 Nov. 2023
  • After the measure passed, Poynton wished the applicant well.
    Jesse Wright, Chicago Tribune, 15 Feb. 2023
  • That option is not available to applicants for passport cards alone, though.
    Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2023
  • But Irvin said that was unfair to the applicant, Strings Ramen, and did not have to be included in the application.
    Steve Lord, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2022
  • That opened the floodgates to applicants who might not have tried to gain entry to Harvard without a perfect SAT score, for instance.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2023
  • In Trible’s first decade as president, the number of CNU applicants soared and its acceptance rate dropped from 82% to about half.
    Brandi Kellam, ProPublica, 22 Dec. 2023
  • In addition, 14 applicants have been selected to join the program and earn a greenlight from fans on Stubios.
    Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2024
  • But the bigger factor was that these colleges were more likely to accept the richest applicants.
    Aatish Bhatia, New York Times, 24 July 2023
  • The applicant is offering to buy the restaurant and became a franchisee of Scooter's Coffee.
    Adrienne Davis, Journal Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
  • In the end, the company was left with fewer than 500 people, or 3% of applicants, to interview for the positions.
    Hanna Ziady, CNN, 12 July 2023
  • Here’s my advice to the first generation of post-GPT applicants: Beat the machine by signaling that there’s a human on the other end of the line.
    Dan Lichterman, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2023
  • But after a housing applicant receives a conditional approval, a landlord could only then consider their criminal record if the offense was arson, human trafficking or any other felony conviction within the past year.
    Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 23 Oct. 2024

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