How to Use commissioner in a Sentence

commissioner

noun

• The baseball commissioner decided to suspend the players for 10 games.
• This year's three-way race for county commissioner has stood out from others.
  — Hana Khalyleh, The Enquirer, 1 Nov. 2022
• The same shift happened to the district attorney and the county commissioner.
  — Tiffany Cusaac-Smith, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2022
• View live results for Cook County water commissioner’s race.
  — Chicago Tribune, 8 Nov. 2022
• Perhaps agreeable when very narrowly defined, the commissioner does not interpret his comments in such a way.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2024
• The president may, though, replace the chair with another commissioner.
  — Michelle Price, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2024
• The Carroll commissioners last met with the governor on Nov. 12.
  — Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 25 Nov. 2024
• The commissioner also noted in his statement that grief counselors were on hand at the various venues on the PGA Tour.
  — Danielle Jennings, People.com, 27 Nov. 2024
• Image Today is Jessica Tisch’s first day as the police commissioner.
  — James Barron, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
• Schlissel spoke in Pueblo in September at a meeting organized by the county commissioners on the Comanche coal plant.
  — Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 25 Nov. 2024
• Oregon voters have approved Measure 113 and have elected a new labor commissioner.
  — oregonlive, 8 Nov. 2022
• Also despite Pat Williams’ effort, there was so little support in Orange County that the commissioners didn’t even take it up for a vote.
  — Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 26 Nov. 2024
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024