How to Use in charge of in a Sentence

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  • Which, from now on, means Birch & Alder is in charge of lunch.
    Mara Severin | Eating Out, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2023
  • Raine was also in charge of the sale of Chelsea FC last year.
    David Hellier, Fortune, 1 May 2023
  • That would be the point person or the person who is in charge of the fire that day.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The band wasn’t going to be in charge of the film elements; that was not their thing.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Put Thomas Massie in charge of a new Frank Church committee.
    Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 3 May 2023
  • Put Thomas Massie in charge of a new Frank Church committee.
    Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 3 May 2023
  • Levesque at present is in charge of the company’s creative.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The coach in charge of Thursday’s session is Dmytro Rzondkovsky.
    Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The military is in charge of Sudan, but the RSF wants a stronger role in running the country.
    George Petras, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Your wife is in charge of herself, her patients and her friendships.
    Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
  • But the aid groups in charge of the rollout say that the most critical factor is a pause in airstrikes in order to reach all the kids in Gaza.
    Aya Batrawy, NPR, 31 Aug. 2024
  • As a child, my aunt worked for Grumman, for the man who was in charge of designing and building the LEM module.
    Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 3 May 2024
  • Ramsay was annoyed to see Grant, who was in charge of grilling the burgers, sticking cooked burgers in the oven.
    Kturnqui, oregonlive, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The seven-member board will be in charge of deciding who will take his place.
    Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Blake is in charge of the marketing for Anheuser-Busch’s mainstream brands.
    David Wysong, The Enquirer, 24 Apr. 2023
  • But Solana isn’t in charge of actually taking down the fakes.
    Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 3 Jan. 2024
  • And he’s been in charge of this five-year rebuild, as Hyde points out, that hasn’t even resulted in a playoff win.
    Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The al-Thani family was in charge of parts of Qatar since the 1800s and increased its power while the area was a British protectorate.
    Ruby Mellen, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
  • Anyone can add expenses, see who’s on the hook for what, and settle up, as no one person is in charge of the group.
    Wes Davis, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Politics, claimed the man in charge of the sidewalk, had nothing to do with it: Robeson simply wasn’t well enough known.
    Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2024
  • Gideon Lichfield: But there are people in charge of the exchanges when bitcoin is traded.
    Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Perun was placed in charge of running the assault missions for those who remained.
    Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • So that becomes more complicated for a lot of the people who were in charge of writing the story.
    Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Who will be in charge of checking IDs and making sure beer purchases aren't passed to minors?
    Matthew Dolan, Detroit Free Press, 20 July 2023
  • That means Wasserman — the man in charge of organizing the Games — will be the one to take the blame if the city goes over the $7-billion budget and taxpayers have to cover the cost.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2024
  • What about the computers in charge of an air traffic control system?
    Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 29 May 2023
  • And lawmakers from those states say California shouldn’t be in charge of how their pigs get raised.
    Daniel Desrochers, Kansas City Star, 24 May 2024
  • Veteran announcer Al Michaels is in charge of play-by-play.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The female clerk was in charge of keeping the place tidy and engaging with customers, while the man dealt with accounts and occasionally patrolled the shop, looking for anything else that needed doing.
    Shuang Xuetao, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Charles Schusterman, the family patriarch, died in 2000, which left his wife, Lynn, and daughter Stacy in charge of the family’s oil business and foundation.
    Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2024

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