How to Use commissioner in a Sentence

commissioner

noun

• The baseball commissioner decided to suspend the players for 10 games.
• At the hearing, commissioners came down on the side of the church.
  — Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 8 Feb. 2024
• Dormer was out as commissioner before the end of the year.
  — Robert Kolker, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• The long wait for a park, though, has been worth it, commissioners agreed.
  — Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2024
• The commissioner and the people with him had all gone down to the field with five minutes or so to go.
  — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2023
• The off-the-field topic of the club’s lease with the state was downplayed by commissioner Manfred this week at the All-Star Game.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2023
• The commissioner hopes that charters in the future can be funded in part by the next TV deal.
  — Doug Feinberg, Chicago Tribune, 10 Apr. 2023
• Bull Nakano, the commissioner, climbed under the ropes to present the fighter with the championship belt.
  — Alyson Krueger Martina Tuaty, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2023
• Gary Bettman just hit 30 years in charge of the NHL, and will soon become the game's longest-serving commissioner.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2022
• Cook, the Clark County health commissioner, said the data lags by about 1.5 years.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2024
• And the groups want a five-to-10-year commitment, Perez told commissioners.
  — Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 11 Apr. 2024
• The change makes Garcia the fourth commissioner this year to win reelection for lack of a challenger.
  — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 24 June 2024
• Based on the non-compliance of the jail standards, the commissioners should have leverage to end the contract with the private jail in Garza County.
  — Noah Alcala Bach, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Feb. 2024
• Wilson, who is a port commissioner in Longview, also planned to meet with counterparts at the port of Shanghai, one of the biggest in the world.
  — Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2023
• Willhite, who served three terms in the House, lost a campaign to become a county commissioner in Palm Beach.
  — Katie Delk, Orlando Sentinel, 17 Nov. 2022
• Yet its commissioners—who now mostly work one day a week, from home—have seen their caseloads double.
  — Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
• Once the meeting resumed publicly, all but one of the commissioners approved the order.
  — Josephine Peterson, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
• He's been on the City Council since 2020 and is the only sitting commissioner to carry over his seat in the new form of government.
  — Meira Gebel, Axios, 19 Dec. 2024
• His five-year deal from 2017 will soon expire and the vote signals that Goodell will continue in the commissioner's role for at least the short term.
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2022
• For a while, the Rosedale Grandmont league commissioner said, one of the player's great-grandfathers, who was on a Negro league team, would come to games.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 1 May 2023
• After years of study, the city planning commissioners had to make a big decision this week: Where should all those new homes go?
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2024
• The commissioner, Nichelle Blackwell, said the youth was vulnerable and would be close to many other children at school and the group home.
  — Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Mar. 2023
• The commissioners, who lead a county that is home to about one in 10 of the state’s active voters, had been scheduled to vote on the appointment Wednesday.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
• People who want to sue the state need approval of the claims commissioner’s office and the legislature.
  — Dave Collins, Fortune, 6 May 2024
• After a nearly three-hour session that was closed to the public, commissioners made the selection on a 5-0 vote.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2023
• Reece was appointed by a 2-0 vote with Reece and the other commissioner, Denise Driehaus, voting yes.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 8 Jan. 2024
• As Kraft, 81, and Jones, 80, joined the league's owners to vote on a new contract with commissioner Roger Goodell, the two engaged in a tense dialogue.
  — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 19 Oct. 2022
• The same shift happened to the district attorney and the county commissioner.
  — Tiffany Cusaac-Smith, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2022
• This year's three-way race for county commissioner has stood out from others.
  — Hana Khalyleh, The Enquirer, 1 Nov. 2022
• Stern was in San Francisco on Thursday and urged the commissioners to postpone their decision until March 31.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Jan 2025