How to Use pro tem in a Sentence

pro tem

adverb

• Arnold is the council’s current mayor pro tem and has held the seat for most of the past eight years.
  — Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 7 May 2023
• Ernest Blevins has been serving as the city’s mayor pro tem.
  — Mike Nolan, Daily Southtown, 24 Apr. 2018
• Trevor O’Neil, now the mayor pro tem, said the council had approved the deal in the best interest of the city.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2022
• Lindamood has been on City Council since 2016 and is the city’s mayor pro tem.
  — Dallas News, 9 May 2022
• The role of the president pro tem is to preside over the Senate in the absence of the vice president.
  — Tal Kopan, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2021
• She was selected to the position of deputy mayor pro tem for the first time.
  — Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 20 June 2023
• But Sandra Willis, the mayor pro tem of this town of roughly 3,500 people, had a broader point to make.
  — New York Times, 17 Mar. 2022
• The position of president pro tem does not come with a great deal of power.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2021
• Our [state Senate] pro tem, born in poverty in Virginia.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2022
• Playing the role of Brutus is Kevin de León, the state Senate president pro tem.
  — Marcos Bretón, sacbee, 5 Nov. 2017
• In 2019, Dallas’ deputy mayor pro tem, Adam Medrano, called for the city to shut down the strip club after a rash of violent crimes.
  — Tom Steele, Dallas News, 18 Mar. 2021
• Mark Mulliner of the 7th Ward is the longest serving Elmhurst alderman and is such is also mayor pro tem in the absence of the Mayor.
  — Graydon Megan, chicagotribune.com, 23 Feb. 2021
• Wolosin, a married father of two, currently serves as the mayor pro tem.
  — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Mar. 2022
• Bevin otherwise praised the job Brown has done as party chairman and the work David Osborne has done as House speaker pro tem.
  — Tom Loftus, The Courier-Journal, 12 Dec. 2017
• Dowdle, who also serves as mayor pro tem, won re-election to his second term in Ward B in May 2016.
  — Karen Zurawski, Houston Chronicle, 30 Jan. 2018
• The Colleyville mayor pro tem, who was elected in 2016, did not respond to requests for comment.
  — Alyssa Fernandez, Dallas News, 20 Jan. 2021
• Yolanda Ramon, the city’s mayor pro tem, said this week that the use of Title 42 was the only thing keeping the region from seeing mass chaos.
  — Michelle Hackman, WSJ, 20 May 2022
• Scott Wagner, whom James named Kansas City’s mayor pro tem, appears to be a no-vote.
  — Steve Vockrodt and Bill Turque, kansascity, 7 Feb. 2018
• But just when things had calmed down at City Hall, and the mayor pro tem was sworn in as mayor, Scripture dropped another bombshell.
  — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 26 May 2021
• Clayton has been chief judge pro tem since July 2016, succeeding Judge Joy Kramer.
  — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 20 June 2018
• Dowdle later in the meeting also was named mayor pro tem.
  — Karen Zurawski, Houston Chronicle, 18 May 2018
• Rick Barnes, a 54-year-old insurance agent, is a former mayor pro tem and council member in Keller.
  — Anna M. Tinsley, star-telegram, 6 Mar. 2018
• Barnes, a 54-year-old insurance agent, is a former mayor pro tem and council member in Keller.
  — Anna M. Tinsley, star-telegram, 6 Mar. 2018
• In 1972, O’Keefe’s Senate colleagues elected him as the speaker pro tem, then the highest position in the Senate.
  — Tyler Bridges, NOLA.com, 2 Feb. 2021
• Julie Eiselt, the Democratic mayor pro tem, said the tax increase was necessary.
  — Steve Harrison, charlotteobserver, 11 June 2018
• He was elected to his first term in November 2012 and currently serves as speaker pro tem.
  — Jason Hancock, kansascity, 12 Sep. 2017
• Once the new board is seated in 2022, members will chose a president and president pro tem from among themselves.
  — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 4 Aug. 2021
• Chris Harris was elected to Katy city council in 2018 and was appointed mayor pro tem last year.
  — Claire Goodman, Houston Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2020
• Judge pro tem Tamika Wooten is running uncontested as a Democrat.
  — Jimmy Jenkins, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2024
• Dilman is a reserved academic-turned-senator serving as president pro tem of the Senate before a series of freak accidents brings him to the presidency.
  — Peter Kastor, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024