How to Use ad hoc in a Sentence

ad hoc

1 of 2 adverb

• There and then, the two men came up with their own ad hoc strategy.
  — Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• But contributions to the fund are ad hoc and cannot meet the needs of host countries.
  — David Miliband, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
• Lil Wayne’s got more than ad hoc guitar features and a good verse on a Tyler, the Creator song.
  — Vulture, 11 Sep. 2023
• Even then the pitch was delivered in an ad hoc way in a crowded canteen.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 21 Jan. 2024
• The loss of that store took away an ad hoc community center.
  — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Sep. 2023
• But for some, the decentralized, ad hoc nature of the planning is a strength — or at least a useful metaphor.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 3 July 2023
• Meanwhile, ad hoc groups of civilians trawl through social media posts and flag them to the police.
  — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
• And that requires you to have some level of consistency, and not just to be a bundle of ad hoc offshoots.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 15 Mar. 2023
• Luxurious, comfortable sheet cakes are the moment: a little messy, sold ad hoc by the slice or the cake, made in home kitchens.
  — Annemarie Dooling, USA TODAY, 29 Feb. 2024
• At the ad hoc incident command post, Rennick looked up the three-month forecast on his laptop.
  — Omar Mouallem, WIRED, 23 Aug. 2023
• Councilmember Traci Park will take Price’s former spot leading the ad hoc committee on the 2028 Olympics.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2023
• Almost four years ago now, many of us saw shifting to a remote-work model as an ad hoc response to a short-term crisis.
  — Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024
• When everyone is in the office, a lot of information can be transferred at an ad hoc rate.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2024
• Rather than stabilize the system, their ad hoc approach has stirred panic.
  — Stephen Miran, wsj.com, 10 May 2023
• It was vetoed by the governor Thursday, one sign of how fraught the question of protections for an ad hoc work force has become.
  — Kellen Browning, New York Times, 27 May 2023
• Then the intern left town for law school and the organization reverted to the ad hoc methods that are more typical for such groups.
  — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 8 Aug. 2023
• To fill this gap, legal scholars have proposed different types of ad hoc tribunals.
  — Rebecca Hamilton, Foreign Affairs, 12 July 2023
• The use of Patois in such settings is largely ad hoc depending on the whims of government employees.
  — Simon Romero Alejandro Cegarra, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• The two cities, which had been linked for decades, were now connected only through an ad hoc ferry system, cleaving the micropolitan area in half.
  — Colin Dickey, Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2023
• The 15-person, ad hoc church choir—whose members managed to hold four rehearsals despite coming from as far away as New York and California—doesn’t miss a beat.
  — John Hanc, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Aug. 2023
• Instead, cabin crew will act as ad hoc midwives as the plane speeds to its original destination.
  — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Jan. 2024
• The ad hoc committee tasked with this decision argued to replace all names because the process would take too long or be too difficult to look on a case-by-case basis.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Jan. 2024
• Hillyer, in 2015, was a member of an ad hoc committee in Mobile that explored ways to offset the revenue losses from removing a penny sales tax at the time.
  — John Sharp | [e-mail], al, 6 June 2023
• The flaws in this ad hoc response were evident in El Paso ahead of the expiration of a pandemic-era health measure known as Title 42 in early May.
  — Eileen Sullivan, New York Times, 13 July 2023
• The proposal was shared with board members at a school board policy/ad hoc committee meeting Monday.
  — Ethan Bakuli, Detroit Free Press, 24 Aug. 2023
• This week’s motion asked the sheriff to send answers to nearly a dozen questions to the Civilian Oversight Commission’s ad hoc committee on deputy gangs within two weeks.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
• So, something of an ad hoc, arm’s length procedure often is established in such cases aimed at keeping things legal.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
• The ad hoc committee envisioned scenarios to gain a global perspective of what the world might look like in 2050 and beyond,and what these potential futures might mean for IEEE.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 31 July 2023
• Coughlin noted that an IEEE ad hoc committee on climate change recently was formed.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 12 Aug. 2022
• There are few official Ukrainian sniper schools, and much of the instruction comes from ad hoc classrooms, private training and volunteers scattered around the country.
  — Natalia Yermak David Guttenfelder, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023

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ad hoc

2 of 2 adjective

• We had to make some ad hoc changes to the plans.
• We'll hire more staff on an ad hoc basis.
• The mayor appointed an ad hoc committee to study the project.
• The next meeting of the football ad hoc committee will be on Jan. 19.
  — Nik Streng | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 10 Jan. 2022
• Such efforts had been used in government in more ad hoc ways since the 1980s.
  — Sarah Scoles, New York Times, 17 May 2022
• Back in 2004, the UN set up an ad hoc group to discuss ocean protection.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 4 Mar. 2023
• In the meantime, Leoni is trying to find ad hoc solutions.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2022
• As the Ayubis searched for a way out, an ad hoc group of people overseas was looking for ways to help her.
  — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2021
• An ad hoc tribunal might claim the jurisdiction to try Putin, but there is still no way to haul him in.
  — Dahlia Scheindlin, The New Republic, 18 Apr. 2022
• Hawkins was part of the ad hoc drum supergroup that played during the 2007 Live Earth concert in London.
  — Gary Graff, Billboard, 26 Mar. 2022
• The process of putting the ad hoc group's suggestions into practice won't be simple, though, Lein said.
  — Zekriah Chaudhry, Star Tribune, 24 June 2021
• There are no founding mothers in the camp’s ad hoc government.
  — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2021
• Sunak and Biden both seem to be running an ad hoc policy platter du jour.
  — Simon Constable, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
• The creation of an ad hoc group to advise the city on the next garbage contract may resurrect some of the lingering concerns.
  — Zekriah Chaudhry, Star Tribune, 24 June 2021
• But there were signs of frustration with the city's ad hoc, district-by-district approach.
  — Reuters, CNN, 21 Mar. 2022
• Now boys like Rafiullah and his 15-year-old brother serve as ad hoc repair crews for tips.
  — National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
• So, for a healthy number of workers, that ad hoc workspace on the dining room table may no longer be sufficient.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2022
• But finding the meteorites within those tracts has been an ad hoc affair.
  — Byscience News Staff, science.org, 26 Jan. 2023
• That would be more like the ad hoc mobilization already under way.
  — Evan Gershkovich, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2022
• The ad hoc formations are set to play an increasingly central role in the fighting.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• But his view of Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer, and Trump’s ad hoc legal team after the election was dim.
  — Isaac Arnsdorf, Washington Post, 13 June 2022
• No one is sure how the shift from a live TV audience to an ad hoc digital one will affect the overall economics of the Olympics.
  — Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2022
• And from a patient standpoint, no one wants to believe such decisions are being made on an ad hoc basis in a back room.
  — oregonlive, 7 Jan. 2022
• Musk’s style of making ad hoc changes won't fly under the new European rulebook, experts said.
  — Kelvin Chan, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Dec. 2022
• Some homes sit half-built, and many that are finished have ad hoc connections to electricity.
  — Neri Zilber, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Oct. 2022
• The flags were self-explanatory: ad hoc memorials to Black Americans who died at the hands of police.
  — Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2021
• The ad hoc committee met on Wednesday, with one of the topics of conversation being a change to the way the 6A playoffs are conducted.
  — oregonlive, 17 Feb. 2022
• Since the beginning of the American labor movement, in the 19th century, there have been unions, as well as more ad hoc worker groups.
  — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022
• But the drug cocktail was somewhat ad hoc, Spottiswoode admits.
  — Bykatherine Kornei, science.org, 3 Feb. 2023
• Cloud servers can upgrade your server capacity on both a long-term and ad hoc basis.
  — Andre Reitenbach, Forbes, 12 July 2022

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