How to Use delegate in a Sentence

delegate

1 of 2 noun

• He's been chosen as a delegate to the convention.
• Across both schemes, the delegates are from across the U.K.’s nations and regions.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 Aug. 2023
• And three-fourths of the delegates must support the endorsement.
  — Lisa Demer, Alaska Dispatch News, 22 Oct. 2017
• After Buttigieg dropped out of the race, she was elected as a delegate for Joe Biden.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2021
• Ray Buckley, the New Hampshire Democrats' chair, said that over 200 of their delegates signed up to be part of the efforts.
  — Isabella Murray, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2023
• Nezhad won about 53% of delegate votes while Frey came in second with 40%.
  — Faiza Mahamud, Star Tribune, 5 July 2021
• Phillips, a delegate since 2010, grew up as a Democrat.
  — Mason Adams, New Republic, 22 Sep. 2017
• Ward was re-elected with 51% of the party delegate vote.
  — Cole Lauterbach, Washington Examiner, 25 Jan. 2021
• Biden, who is on a roll in the primaries and has taken the lead in the delegate count, is getting plenty of advice.
  — Joe Garofoli, SFChronicle.com, 16 Mar. 2020
• That went too far for some delegates and the debate was reopened.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2019
• Sanders’s strong base and delegate haul still gives him a shot to win the nomination.
  — Molly Ball, Time, 4 Mar. 2020
• On May 7 of this year, the electorate chose the fifty delegates who will try again to write a new constitution.
  — Ariel Dorfman, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2023
• Still, the way to the nomination is via delegates, and so the Feb. 6 primary is just for show.
  — Mark Murray, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2023
• Trump is on track to win all of the state’s delegates to the GOP convention, which amount to 14% of the votes needed for the nomination.
  — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2024
• That means that only 16 out of the GOP's 55 delegates in Michigan are up for grabs today.
  — Ashley Lopez, NPR, 27 Feb. 2024
• Texas has the second biggest haul of delegates (California has the most) in the GOP race.
  — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 12 June 2023
• As a result of the scheduling dispute, at least some of the state's delegates are likely to be stripped away.
  — Brittany Shepherd, ABC News, 26 Oct. 2023
• Biden has won slightly more delegates than Sanders so far in the race for the nomination.
  — Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2020
• Each school board is allowed one delegate at the session, which this year will be held in Chicago.
  — Mike Danahey, chicagotribune.com, 5 Nov. 2021
• Rhode Island, for one, hadn’t even sent a delegate to the convention.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2020
• Still, the delegate count will remain close as votes from California roll in over the next few days.
  — Rick Klein, ABC News, 3 Mar. 2020
• Ten minutes later, the process had ended and delegates were asked to return to their seats while the votes were counted.
  — Christopher Bodeen, chicagotribune.com, 11 Mar. 2018
• Young, a former state delegate, said there was a quorum but the call was above board because the council does not oversee the jail.
  — Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 31 Mar. 2023
• DeSantis is in a distant second with 6 to 10 delegates, and the rest of the field tends to pick up at most a few delegates each.
  — Kabir Khanna, CBS News, 26 Sep. 2023
• Sroka, the Michigan delegate who is also on the club’s board, kicked them out quickly.
  — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2020
• Bacow posits that learning to ask for help and delegate tasks are essential life skills—and this is the perfect time to hone them.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 24 Dec. 2023
• But Trump has been working quietly to twist the delegate rules in his favor.
  — Adam Nagourney, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2023
• But delegates have warned that parts of the text are still not strong enough, and that the real work of reducing greenhouse gas emissions is still ahead of us.
  — Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2023
• Slovakia, meanwhile, appealed to the emotions of the delegates.
  — Billy Stockwell, CNN, 30 Mar. 2024
• Donald Trump this week earned enough delegates in the 2024 Republican primary to officially win the party’s nomination.
  — Dell Cameron Andrew Couts, WIRED, 16 Mar. 2024

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delegate

2 of 2 verb

• He doesn't delegate very well.
• Those chores can be delegated to someone else.
• A manager should delegate authority to the best employees.
• There is only one of you and a lot of the parts of my job are not able to delegate that.
  — Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2020
• A lot of times we’ve been delegated as plus-size folks off to the side.
  — Samuel Maude, ELLE, 11 July 2023
• Match the right person to each job and delegate your many tasks.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 7 June 2021
• Beat the burnout: Learn to delegate and to accept help throughout the day.
  — Brittany Risher, Good Housekeeping, 26 Aug. 2019
• The one job the CEO cannot delegate is vision and values.
  — George Bradt, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021
• Many parents delegate part of the teaching task to schools, in an act of trust.
  — CNN, 3 Nov. 2022
• Trust the platform provider and delegate the upkeep to them.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 21 June 2021
• Now, though, there were things to delegate and a business to manage.
  — Emily Lordi, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• Sort that out, and when a bigger job comes up, then gather again and delegate.
  — The Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2020
• Huguette was wealthy enough to delegate tasks that might otherwise have required her to leave the house.
  — Meryl Gordon, Town & Country, 21 May 2014
• After the loss to Dow, Herrington began to delegate for the first time.
  — Mick McCabe, Detroit Free Press, 12 Oct. 2017
• Use your quick mind to streamline your job or delegate some of your duties.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 26 Feb. 2021
• The best, the all-time biggest triumph in the domestic work wars, though, has to be delegating the bathrooms to the kids.
  — Stacey Gill, Good Housekeeping, 21 Sep. 2015
• Thus leaders have to be savvy and know how to delegate time so that neither the nonprofit nor the for-profit are harmed in the process.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
• Then, delegate that area down to a team member or even an entire team.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
• That is not delegated to any other member of the court.
  — Jack Kelly and Matthew Defour, Journal Sentinel, 30 Aug. 2023
• This is great for a fast-growing startup bringing in new clients and team members, with a need to delegate tasks.
  — Dallas News, 1 Nov. 2022
• To start, people must learn to delegate tasks to the new technology.
  — Erica Gunn, Forbes, 27 May 2022
• Most of the innovation and big decisions will have been delegated down to the level of the team.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2018
• Building the three-tier floating shelf was so quick and easy that Rachel delegated the task to her children.
  — Herrine Ro, Country Living, 6 Oct. 2015
• Member-states have delegated more sovereignty over time to the EU.
  — Garret Martin, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2019
• There is no one best way for a leader to delegate these specific tasks.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
• Next, have an honest picture of your own strengths and the strengths of your teams, and delegate accordingly.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• Learning how best to delegate and when to ask for help are also critical to the founder's journey.
  — Miruna Girtu, Forbes, 19 July 2022
• There wasn’t a difference, so the company decided to delegate such alerts to the bots.
  — Rebecca Robbins, STAT, 13 Nov. 2019
• In either event, the question of what was delegated is settled.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 1 Feb. 2024
• Riepe delegated his bill as his priority for the session on Wednesday -- a day before the deadline to do so.
  — Margery A. Beck The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 15 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024