How to Use officeholder in a Sentence

officeholder

noun

• The law calls for the petitions to be filed in the appellate court where the state officeholder lives.
  — John Caniglia, cleveland, 21 Sep. 2021
• The first asks a yes-or-no question: Shall the officeholder be recalled?
  — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2021
• Here’s a list of some officeholders who have been found guilty of charges but still won office after.
  — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 6 June 2024
• The officeholder can file to run for re-election in early 2022.
  — oregonlive, 8 Aug. 2020
• But not every officeholder gets a break, even if members of their own party help draw the maps.
  — Brittany Shepherd, ABC News, 11 June 2022
• The vice mayor doesn't get paid more than other council members, and the officeholder's vote still counts as just one of nine.
  — Jason Williams, Cincinnati.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• The highest officeholder should think about these words.
  — Jm Rieger, Twin Cities, 24 Oct. 2019
• Fouts left office that month after 16 years as mayor and more than four decades as city officeholder.
  — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 3 Apr. 2024
• It’s part of a larger drive to make sure every GOP officeholder, from senators to city councils, is loyal to the Trump cause.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2021
• Removal of an officeholder is the only penalty under the Hatch Act.
  — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 5 Jan. 2018
• Isom has been involved in enough campaigns to know that beating a sitting officeholder is tough.
  — Matt Canham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 July 2021
• Historically, one of the goals of officeholders is to expand the base.
  — Eugene Scott, Washington Post, 22 May 2018
• Lemelin said this part would be a constant reminder of the officeholder's power and the country's history.
  — Katherine Doyle, Washington Examiner, 5 Apr. 2021
• Mayor Erin Stewart, local leaders and most of the state officeholders from the region plan to attend.
  — Don Stacom, courant.com, 20 Sep. 2019
• State law requires the board to replace officeholders who leave office early with an appointee of the same party.
  — The Arizona Republic, 28 Feb. 2024
• What's more, even if the loan didn't have anything to do with the campaign - again, a questionable premise - Trump may have had to report the loan on his ethics forms as a federal officeholder.
  — Philip Bump, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2018
• But that can ruffle feathers in the context of a campaign where officeholders are expected to lock arms with those in their own party.
  — Joseph Morton, Dallas News, 4 May 2023
• What makes this so frustrating and shameful is that the Party’s officeholders seem to agree that the situation is dire.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 17 July 2024
• And in an election year for many state officeholders, the politics of pot legalization look all the more complex.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2020
• She was born a bit earlier, in 1925, and followed a more traditional route to power, as the wife of a president, not the officeholder.
  — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2023
• The appointment came with the understanding that the officeholder would not be a candidate for the position in the next election.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2022
• Masks are mandatory in the building, except in legislative offices, where the officeholder may set the rules.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Oct. 2021
• The two current officeholders, Hawira and Keria Ponga, came to the gathering to speak about their ongoing work.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 18 Feb. 2023
• With no members of Congress or statewide officeholders running for governor, the field is full of mayors.
  — Russell Blair, courant.com, 7 Jan. 2018
• This is a key question for structuring a campaign against the sitting officeholder.
  — David Mark, Washington Examiner, 28 Dec. 2023
• The question is whether or not Trump will release his results, which has been commonplace for officeholders before him.
  — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 10 Jan. 2018
• As the first 2004 primaries loomed, Democratic donors, officeholders and blue-collar workers became concerned that Dean might be too far ahead to be stopped.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, The Mercury News, 8 Aug. 2019
• Moore believes that Muslims should not be allowed to serve in Congress, explains Crockett, because the law requires that officeholder be sworn in on a Bible.
  — Jay Willis, GQ, 13 Dec. 2017
• The evidence points to his extreme competence — as an officeholder and a campaigner.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024
• The racial and ethnic diversity of women as both candidates and officeholders has also grown since 2016, according to CAWP.
  — Kelly Dittmar, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024