How to Use president-elect in a Sentence

president-elect

noun

• There is a good chance that by the end of the year, Trump will be president-elect of the United States.
  — Jamelle Bouie, The Mercury News, 26 June 2024
• The president-elect’s promise to oppose any and all tax hikes was made in writing.
  — Jonas Torrico, National Review, 5 Dec. 2023
• During the first 45 seconds of the cold open, half of the cast soberly rattles off some of the president-elect’s many glaring deficits.
  — Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
• The audience would have noticed the 40-year-old president-elect’s empty right sleeve.
  — Richard J. Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 May 2024
• Guatemala’s president-elect is finding out in real time.
  — Sandra Cuffe, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2023
• And if not, the president-elect warned of trouble ahead for Mr. Johnson and Republicans in Congress.
  — Lisa Mascaro and Kevin Freking, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2024
• Now their president-elect is asking for a blank check and threatening primaries for any holdouts.
  — Justin Green, Axios, 20 Dec. 2024
• Gone is the long tradition that the United States has just one president at a time and that the president-elect generally tries to stay out of the way until taking the oath of office.
  — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2024
• Scott was named president-elect in June 2023, while also serving on the association's Board of Trustees.
  — Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 31 May 2024
• Back in the dawn of the Trump era — just prior to his 2017 inauguration — the line of would-be suck-ups queuing up for face time with the president-elect included a man with a distinguished name.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2023
• The president-elect’s son is also visiting the island this week, bringing further attention to the idea.
  — Tristan Lejeune, The Hill, 8 Jan. 2025
• On the day Biden’s presidential win was called in 2020, the musician shared a photo of himself being held as a child by the president-elect with his mother standing next to him.
  — Jacqueline Weiss, Peoplemag, 1 June 2024
• Judging by the first month of the transition, the success of the Trump 2.0 economic agenda will be determined by who wins the contest for the president-elect’s attention.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2024
• Justin Brown, president-elect of the Brookline Educators Union and fourth-grade teacher, said some teachers are wary of adding more standards to their already-full plates.
  — Dharna Noor, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
• The president and president-elect are from the same political party as Rocha, the Sinaloa governor.
  — Keegan Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2024
• According to the country’s Mehr News agency, on his first day as president-elect, Pezeshkian canceled a planned press conference to instead meet with Khamenei.
  — Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 16 July 2024
• Peru became the first nation to recognize González as Venezuela’s president-elect.
  — Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 31 July 2024
• During our conversation, Schiff spoke of the president-elect only when asked.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
• The president-elect has sought to suspend or outright eliminate the debt ceiling, which is adjusted to prevent the U.S. from defaulting on its debt.
  — Antonio Pequeño Iv, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
• The flights by China’s air force also come as Paraguay’s president-elect, Santiago Peña, visits the island.
  — Time, 12 July 2023
• In 2023, the Czech Republic’s president-elect even spoke with Taiwan’s president, becoming the first European head of state to do so.
  — David Sacks, Foreign Affairs, 10 Jan. 2024
• Working at Apple wasn't in my plans, but to see a CEO who cared so much about environmentalism reminded me in many ways of talking to the president-elect.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Apr. 2023
• Kellyanne Conway addresses the press from the lobby as the president-elect holds meetings upstairs, November 2016.
  — Curbed, 2 Oct. 2023
• Musk has been a frequent presence at Trump's side, advising the president-elect on federal spending and tech policies.
  — Marianne Levine and Meryl Kornfield The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 20 Dec. 2024
• The first to congratulate the president-elect was the outgoing president, Mario Abdo Benítez.
  — Débora Rey, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 May 2023
• Some ethics experts have expressed concern about people investing in Trump Media to gain favor with the president-elect.
  — Matthew Goldstein, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2024
• There are, however, concerns that the president-elect's economic policies could stoke inflation, and slow the pace of interest rate cuts next year.
  — Lucia Mutikani, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2024
• Macron and leaders across Europe are trying to persuade the president-elect to maintain support for Ukraine in its defense against Russia's invasion.
  — Sylvie Corbet, arkansasonline.com, 8 Dec. 2024
• There is a very real possibility that Donald J. Trump can be your president-elect.
  — Fox News, 4 Apr. 2024
• But in the moment, everyone is acting like Mencken is the president-elect, and the brothers Roy are both rationalizing their roles in making that happen.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2023

Last Updated: 23 Jan 2025