How to Use appointee in a Sentence

appointee

noun

• Since then, the new appointees have taken steps to void those agreements.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 26 Apr. 2023
• Wray, who was already leading the FBI at the time, is also a Trump appointee.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
• All three are DeSantis appointees, as are Muñiz and Couriel.
  — Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2024
• Two of the five Supreme Court justices who ruled against the state were Republican appointees.
  — Kyle Whitmire | [e-mail], al, 7 Sep. 2023
• Portela was a Burke-era appointee to the case, having been put on the investigation in 2013.
  — Gus Garcia-Roberts, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
• Estrada, a Biden appointee, did not agree to partner with Weiss on the case in California when Weiss asked him to do so last year.
  — Sarah Bedford, Washington Examiner, 16 Nov. 2023
• This, despite the new appointee being the most qualified for the position.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2024
• In those cases, the appointments effectively cleared the field when each appointee ran for a full term.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• All three judges on the panel in Navarro’s case are appointees of President Barack Obama.
  — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
• Weiss, a Trump-era appointee, has been leading the investigation into the younger Biden and his tax affairs since 2018.
  — Will Steakin, ABC News, 16 May 2023
• With Lamone set to retire in September, the board of elections raced to fill her seat so that the new appointee would have time to transition into the role.
  — Katie Shepherd, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
• The DeSantis appointees are now challenging the legality of the agreements in state court.
  — CBS News, 4 Sep. 2023
• The outstanding issue of whether to charge Rhodes and other group leaders with seditious conspiracy quickly rose to the top of to-do lists for the two new appointees.
  — Carol D. Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2023
• Of course, the fact that Weiss is a Trump appointee and made his own decisions about the case didn’t prevent leading Republicans from crying foul.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 21 June 2023
• Recent history suggests that the court’s six Republican appointees will continue to move the law to the right.
  — Abbie Vansickle, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
• In fact, the three liberal appointees on the high court along with three conservative justices appeared skeptical about the claims as well.
  — Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner, 3 Oct. 2023
• Is phasing out fossil fuels still a top priority for the mayor and her appointees, though?
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
• 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
• The vote was 6 to 3, with the court’s Republican appointees in the majority and its Democratic appointees in dissent.
  — Charlie Savage, New York Times, 23 June 2023
• Dozens of judges, including GOP appointees, rejected Trump’s claims of widespread fraud.
  — Politifact Staff Writer, Dallas News, 11 May 2023
• The other appointee of the mayor and the city council would have to be well qualified and experienced in financial matters.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 13 Apr. 2023
• Couriel, Grosshans and Francis are DeSantis appointees.
  — Stephen Hudak, Orlando Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2023
• Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, ultimately chose a date somewhere in the middle of the competing requests and ordered a trial to take place in May 2024.
  — Robert Legare, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2023
• Both men were appointees of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.
  — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2024
• One of the appointees' first moves was to abolish the school's diversity, equity and inclusion program.
  — Steven Walker, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
• Political appointees now sit on the state electoral commission and the Supreme Court, which must certify the election results.
  — Vanessa Gera, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2023
• Coughenour, an appointee of Republican former President Ronald Reagan, did not cite a reason for dropping off the case in the court filing.
  — Reuters, CNN, 27 Sep. 2023
• And the latest example came last week when President Biden’s appointees moved to eliminate secret ballot elections on the sly.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2023
• Chutkan, an Obama appointee whose disdain for Trump is barely concealed, has seemed as anxious as Smith to get to trial, over the Trump camp’s strenuous objections.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 3 Feb. 2024
• The state court, now controlled by Republican appointees, reversed the earlier decision on the maps that was handed down when the court had leaned Democratic.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 27 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024