How to Use commissar in a Sentence

commissar

noun

• But the commissar did not budge or remove his tall hat.
  — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, National Review, 14 Oct. 2021
• The 2,900-page bill would make an old Soviet commissar blush.
  — Phil Gramm and Mike Solon, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2022
• The great shortcoming in his work, even more than its commissar aspect, is iciness.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2022
• Sitting in the darkness watching them, the commissar (Nonna Mordyukova) has a vision: a flash-forward of Jews, wearing Nazi-era stars on their clothes, marching to a death camp.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 6 June 2018
• The military commissar in charge in the region of Novosibirsk, where multiple errors occurred, should be shipped off to the front for such lapses, Mr. Solovyov said.
  — Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2022
• But his open, public embrace is a real scandal for the ideological commissars of the right.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 10 Jan. 2018
• On Monday, the governor of the Khabarovsk region in the Far East said that half of the men called up there, numbering in the thousands, should not have been drafted and had been sent home and that the region’s military commissar had been dismissed.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2022
• On Monday, the governor of the Khabarovsk region in the Far East said that half of the men called up there, numbering in the thousands, should not have been drafted and had been sent home and that the region’s military commissar had been dismissed.
  — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2022
• Wan Minggui, a commissar in the Chinese military, says in the documentary.
  — Chris Buckley and Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2017
• With the Lincolns, he was elected as much as selected, said Steve Nelson, the brigade’s political commissar.
  — National Geographic, 31 July 2020
• After confronting the political commissar, he was blocked from promotions and joined the railway.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2019
• From the appointment of a party commissar to work with the chief executive, to the pulling of politically sensitive books from library shelves, Hong Kong is changing fast.
  — The Economist, 11 July 2020
• The skeezy old Engineer is still around, professing to have reformed, but then Thuy, who has somehow become a powerful commissar, shows up wanting to track Kim down, so the Engineer resumes pimp work.
  — Margaret Gray, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2019
• Say, a commissar or a member of a Theater Accountability Coalition?
  — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2017
• In the olden days, the authorities probably would have installed a commissar or an uniformed official of some kind to combat this problem, but nobody fights a pirate insurgency with boots on the ground any more.
  — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 16 Nov. 2013
• Soviet commissars may no longer trouble us, but the busybody enemies of youthful adventure abound.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 14 July 2017
• The commissar slowly warms to the family’s generosity and decency.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 6 June 2018
• Although the ship’s political commissar declared the carrier combat ready in November, it is hamstrung by a ski-jump deck, diesel propulsion systems and limited access to overseas bases.
  — Ting Shi, Bloomberg.com, 7 July 2017
• Xu Xisheng, from China’s air force, was made political commissar, an equally senior position in charge of enforcing party directives.
  — Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2023
• Words, as the historian Thucydides warned 2,400 years ago, habitually change their meanings to reflect passing political orthodoxy — and thugs, commissars, and brownshirts oversee the charade.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 31 Aug. 2017
• Grossman could embrace any number of contradictions: loyal Soviet citizen and dissident, kulak and commissar, Stalin worshipper and Stalin hater, in-group and out.
  — Aaron Lake Smith, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
• Anatoly Lunacharsky, the first Bolshevik commissar for education, endorsed London’s work.
  — J. Hoberman, The New York Review of Books, 22 Oct. 2020
• The trouble is that the California Senator goes on to propose that political commissars oversee salary decisions for roughly 80 million American workers.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 May 2019

Last Updated: 3 Oct 2024