How to Use deputize in a Sentence

deputize

verb

• I deputize for the newspaper's editor on the weekends.
• Volunteer instructors were deputized to do most of the classroom instruction, with administrative help from agency staff.
  — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 31 July 2024
• This adds a lot of work and Raven would normally deputize her two kids, ages 14 and 12.
  — Sam Whiting, SFChronicle.com, 2 Aug. 2020
• Lincoln himself deputized Hughes to visit Paris and Rome to plead the Union’s cause.
  — Terry Golway, WSJ, 8 July 2018
• So the child psychiatrist is footing the bill for the fabric himself and has deputized his wife to sew up the curtains.
  — Jennifer Rogers, The Cut, 22 May 2017
• Guests came pouring in, seemingly from out of nowhere, and filled the place (we were deputized to serve them food, but joined afterwards).
  — James McGirk, WIRED, 11 Apr. 2013
• Did the Pirates manager who didn’t like Javier Baez’s bat flip deputize Perez?
  — Steve Rosenbloom, chicagotribune.com, 29 Apr. 2018
• The action deputized the seven impeachment managers who will present the House’s case.
  — New York Times, 15 Jan. 2020
• The company is also deputized by payday lenders, who pay them a fee to serve warrants on debtors.
  — Anjali Tsui, ProPublica, 3 Dec. 2019
• Anyone who stopped into the police station to complain about the mob was deputized.
  — Paula Schleis, cincinnati.com, 1 May 2020
• We are all deputized, at this very moment, to act as junior Demon Slayers in the battle that is about to commence.
  — Sam Kestenbaum, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
• The body will also look at a proposal to deputize a teacher or someone else at school so they are authorized to have a gun.
  — CBS News, 20 Feb. 2018
• The Justice Department approved the request to deputize nine agents, the person said.
  — Michael Balsamo, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Apr. 2020
• Like why does a Latino man deputize himself to stalk a Black boy to protect an all-white community?
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• The chamber will also look at a proposal to deputize a teacher or someone else at school so they are authorized to have a gun.
  — Brendan Farrington, Time, 21 Feb. 2018
• Observing all this is the wise, elderly coach, Sune, who mentored Peter — and Peter is now deputized to tell the beloved coach he is being replaced.
  — Melinda Bargreen, The Seattle Times, 9 June 2017
• The attackers, some of whom had been deputized and armed by city officials, murdered Black residents and destroyed homes and businesses over the course of two days.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 7 July 2023
• That license, ideally, took the form of permission slips, called letters of marque or reprisal, which deputized them to attack certain foreign ships for a cut of the loot.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• At Liverpool, midfielder James Milner was deputized as a left back for much of last season.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2017
• Once inside, the enzymes deputized molecules called gasdermins to punch even larger holes in the cancer cells — holes through which the cells bubbled out their insides.
  — Sharon Begley, STAT, 17 Jan. 2020
• The federal agents had been deputized by the county Sheriff’s Office to help in the investigation.
  — azcentral, 24 Feb. 2020
• The new law deputized their officials as slave-catchers and punished resisters with stiff fines and jail time, and Northerners reacted with fury.
  — Jamelle Bouie, Slate Magazine, 31 Jan. 2017
• At Boeing, the company directly oversees a pool of engineers who are deputized to act in behalf of FAA.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 29 Oct. 2019
• When the original mayor died in office of old age, Max II was deputized to finish out his term, then retained by popular demand.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2019
• That the Legislature deputized union organizers to do the same thing changes nothing.
  — Adam B. Summers, Orange County Register, 8 Feb. 2017
• The President would have to deputize federal troops to carry out the job, because there wouldn’t be enough agents at the Department of Homeland Security to do it.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• Across mid- and southeast Michigan, he was deputized by counties and worked as a court officer in many jurisdictions.
  — Freep.com, 17 July 2019
• Newsom did not say exactly how many prosecutors would be deputized to work in Alameda County in the coming days.
  — Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2024
• The idea is that control of armed force should be deputized to and limited to certain populations—especially elite white men.
  — TIME, 12 Feb. 2024
• Supporters of the bill want to prohibit state or local police from being deputized to help find those in the country illegally.
  — Don Thompson, The Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2017

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024