How to Use nominate in a Sentence

nominate

verb

• We nominated her for player of the year.
• Someone has to tell her the truth—I nominate you.
• We expect the party to nominate him for president.
• The President nominated her for Attorney General.
• The 61-year-old was first nominated to the Board last year.
  — Ed O'Keefe, CBS News, 12 May 2023
• This is the first time the pitcher has been nominated by MLB.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
• Yeah, we’ve been nominated a few times and gone and won.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2023
• All three are nominated for best artist, best song and best video.
  — Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 19 Oct. 2023
• The show, nominated for 12 Tony awards, cost around $16 million to put on.
  — Brittany Natale, Redbook, 10 May 2023
• The album was nominated for album of the year and won best rap album.
  — Astrid Kayembe, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023
• At the 2022 Game Awards, Stray was nominated for best game of the year and won independent game.
  — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024
• Wallen is nominated for the top prize of Entertainer of the Year at this week’s awards.
  — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2023
• While the title didn’t get a great reception, it was nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes that year.
  — Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2024
• Jack Lew's been nominated, but the Senate hasn't even held a hearing on that yet.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 8 Oct. 2023
• While at Scrubs, the show was nominated for five Emmy Awards.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2024
• Bening is nominated for the award again this year for her role as Diana Nyad in Nyad.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2024
• Three current or former Utahns have been nominated for Emmy Awards — one of them for the first time.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 July 2023
• He was nominated for a second time in the same category in 2021 for his role in The Little Things.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2024
• They were nominated another six times in the next 10 years.
  — Ashraya Gupta, Scientific American, 7 Sep. 2023
• In other words: Only one male artist, Jon Batiste, was nominated for each of those awards.
  — Justin Curto, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2023
• The movie was nominated for Best Picture and Bullock won an Oscar for her work.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 14 Aug. 2023
• He has been nominated 17 times for the show, and a posthumous award would give him a seventh Emmy win for the sketch series.
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 June 2023
• For his work, Lowenthal was nominated for best performance at The Game Awards that year.
  — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 21 Oct. 2023
• Danes earned two of her three Emmys for her lead role in Showtime’s Homeland, for which she was nominated five times.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Mar. 2024
• To nominate an athlete for next week’s poll, email [e-mail] by Monday at 11 a.m. Please include stats and team results.
  — Darren Sabedra, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2024
• The singer-songwriter has won nine Grammys in the last five years and is nominated for two more awards at the ceremony, set for Feb. 4.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 17 Dec. 2023
• If there was ever a time for the Democrats to nominate a female candidate for president, this is it.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 17 July 2024
• The Rock Hall nominated him for the first time this year and was voted in immediately.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2024
• By the time Scarface came out, Pacino had been nominated for five Academy Awards but never won.
  — Eric Andersson, People.com, 12 Oct. 2024
• Both straddle the line between representing a more modern sound while having a foot rooted in the classics, and they’ve been nominated before.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024