How to Use ad hoc in a Sentence

ad hoc

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
• The City Council formed an ad hoc committee in a bid to make changes to ULA.
  — City News Service, Daily News, 17 Apr. 2026
• Even though property taxes have increased, Hogg said, the money for this agreement could not be used ad hoc to fill a budget gap.
  — Emily Holshouser, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Apr. 2026