How to Use supremo in a Sentence

supremo

noun
  • Could a new West Wing supremo control Trump any more than anyone else has?
    Stephen Collinson, CNN, 30 May 2017
  • But to do so, the towering and now former, law enforcement supremo had to get to the airport.
    Stephen Collinson, CNN, 11 May 2017
  • These days, Nottinghamshire’s law-and-order supremo is up for election every four years.
    The Economist, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Lukather did justice to Santana (no easy feat) and keyboard supremo Rolie recreated his fierce part heard on the original recording.
    Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The 'upstairs' Alba is referring to could mean club supremo Florentino Perez, who would surely hate to see his side honour their most bitter rivals for the sake of tradition.
    SI.com, 1 May 2018
  • Between then and now, a blink of an eye, that same corporal became a generalissimo, a writer, and an editor supremo.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Airbus customers will be courted with a different kind of sales pitch now that hard-charging marketing supremo John Leahy has handed over the reins, his successor Eric Schulz said in an interview.
    Benjamin Katz, The Seattle Times, 11 Feb. 2018
  • Mourinho, meanwhile, is on punditry duty at the tournament and had some choice words to let out regarding Liverpool's offensive supremo.
    SI.com, 19 June 2018

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