How to Use commission in a Sentence

commission

1 of 2 noun

• She gets a commission for each car she sells.
• The salespeople in that store all work on commission.
• She served on the city's water commission.
• Both states set up commissions to examine their public schools.
• The truth was that the commission was a front for the wealthy.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2023
• The rest of the commission did not take up the matter at the time.
  — Justin Elliott, ProPublica, 23 Feb. 2022
• The two Democrats on the commission voted against the plan.
  — Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 7 Oct. 2021
• The panel sent the commission back to the drawing board.
  — Detroit Free Press, 27 Mar. 2024
• Standard commission rates in the U.S. are among the highest in the world.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2024
• Still, the law does not appear to be on the commission’s side.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 15 June 2020
• From there, Uber takes $8.33 in commissions and fees, which is about a third of the fares.
  — Samantha Leach, Glamour, 12 Dec. 2018
• The rest of the commission agreed and voted 4-0 for denial.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2022
• Her need to make the sale or earn a commission was not even on her radar.
  — Ashley Libby Diaz, Forbes, 16 June 2021
• The three-person commission would then award the bid to the end user.
  — al, 13 Apr. 2021
• The project came out of a commission for an Earth Day event more than a decade ago.
  — Grace Ann Natanawan, SPIN, 22 Apr. 2022
• But the two parties still diverge sharply on the scope of the commission.
  — Andrew Solender, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2021
• With the new law, though, the film commission sees more demand for crews.
  — David S. Cohen, Variety, 16 Sep. 2022
• The city hosted a retreat for the commission last month.
  — John Caniglia, cleveland, 4 Sep. 2020
• Biden’s nominee to fill the fifth seat on the commission.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 18 Mar. 2022
• Bluemel has been fighting with the commission for months about the limits to the state-aid measures.
  — Birgit Jennen, Bloomberg.com, 16 Dec. 2020
• For two weeks now, the commission has been stuck with 3-3 vote between Maj.
  — Elliot Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Dec. 2020
• But the two Gary residents who serve on the commission were split.
  — Gregory Tejeda, Post-Tribune, 12 July 2018
• Was the scale of this commission quite unusual for you?
  — Marley Marius, Vogue, 2 Aug. 2019
• From there, the commission will choose the research plans that have the best shots at winning FDA approval.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2023
• And sometimes that means giving up a chance to earn a commission.
  — Boston.com Real Estate, 18 Sep. 2019
• The average headache won’t put you out of commission for hours on end.
  — Carly Vandergriendt, SELF, 19 May 2022
• That commission would have had to finish its work last year.
  — New York Times, 22 June 2022
• The fish commission has worked closely with coastal center for more than a decade.
  — Special To The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 9 July 2020
• That agenda stalled before the full commission on April 2.
  — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2024
• The commission ordered the property owner to repair or demolish the complex within 30 days.
  — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Apr. 2024

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commission

2 of 2 verb

• The king commissioned the artist to paint his portrait.
• A portrait of the queen was commissioned.
• She was commissioned in the Navy as a captain.
• The magazine commissioned a story about the world's best beaches.
• The report on poverty was commissioned by the governor.
• The ship was commissioned in 2004.
• Dom Manuel was the first monarch to commission a set of china from China.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2022
• And sometimes the streamers will commission, fully cash-flow and be the bank.
  — Angus Finney, Variety, 27 Oct. 2021
• The Avenue Concept and town will commission a new artist each year to paint the mural over.
  — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2022
• Four works of art were commissioned expressly for the site.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
• Last year, the nonprofit raised the funds to commission the Kwai for 25-day voyage.
  — Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 June 2020
• Martinez was commissioned to paint Mahomes on the side of a taco shop across the street from Texas Tech’s campus.
  — Alison Booth, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2024
• And yet, for maybe the first time since that day, the question of who commissioned her killing no longer appears so inscrutable.
  — Alexander Clapp, 1843, 11 Dec. 2019
• Sky Kids and Peacock have teamed to co-commission a pair of new kids programs.
  — Jamie Lang, Variety, 7 Oct. 2021
• Maybe Don Hilario can commission a full-pager from the hereafter to fund our good work?
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2019
• The origins of the loafer date back to as early as the 1920s, when King George VI commissioned a country house shoe that became the first loafer.
  — Christian Gollayan, menshealth.com, 4 Apr. 2023
• The king commissioned the necklace for his daughter in 1950.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 6 May 2023
• About a year ago, after a work was commissioned, the artist came to San Francisco.
  — Leah Garchik, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 May 2018
• For writers who are commissioned, Bunker 15 will pay 50 bucks for the honor.
  — Christopher Null, WIRED, 7 Feb. 2024
• In 1984, Vanity Fair commissioned Andy Warhol to use that picture as the basis of a new work of art.
  — Sam Sanders, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2023
• All feel as if they were designed to please the company that commissioned them.
  — David Pagel, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2019
• Boetti would commission Afghan weavers to make the works, which would often takes years to complete.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2021
• Congress last year chose to commission a study of the issue rather than greenlight the reform.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 7 Oct. 2020
• The bracelet wasn't a new piece Fergie had commissioned for the ceremony, mind you.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 18 Oct. 2018
• For Phillips to commission its own line of jewelry would be as if Christie’s paid an artist to paint a picture, and then sold it.
  — James Tarmy, Bloomberg.com, 24 Sep. 2020
• The piece is newly commissioned and one-of-a-kind; the attendant becomes part of the exhibit.
  — Eva Recinos, Los Angeles Magazine, 18 Jan. 2018
• That way the museum could commission a replica of the vessel.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2023
• The newer works — all commissioned by the group — updated vintage tropes and styles.
  — Matthew Guerrieri, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2019
• Beginner artists for this project were commissioned $250 per mural, but after hearing that rate, Smith pushed back.
  — Emma Hall, Sacramento Bee, 28 Mar. 2024
• In recent years there have been some indications — including in a Rand Corp. study commissioned by county lawyers — that the group is no longer actively adding new members.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024