How to Use appoint in a Sentence

appoint

verb

• Every year, the group appoints three new members.
• After his parents died, the boy's uncle was appointed as his guardian.
• She was appointed professor of chemistry at the university.
• This is the first time since the 1950s the post will be elected, not appointed.
  — Sommer Brugal, Axios, 31 July 2024
• For the first time, the Queen is set to appoint the new prime minister in Scotland.
  — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 4 Sep. 2022
• The city charter gives the mayor the power to appoint the vice mayor.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 18 Nov. 2021
• O’Farrell signed on to the proposal to appoint Hutt last week.
  — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2022
• Tribble said the board hopes to appoint a permanent CEO in the next six to nine months.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 18 Jan. 2023
• The board's decision to appoint him to the role was unanimous, Dorsey said in the memo.
  — Brian Fung, CNN, 30 Nov. 2021
• The meeting comes on the 30th year of the disappearance of the Dalai Lama appointed Panchen Lama.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN Money, 6 June 2025
• As governor, Inslee has the power to appoint and fire the chief of the state patrol.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 8 Nov. 2021
• He was not required to enter a plea and asked the court to appoint him an attorney.
  — Paul J. Weber, Chron, 21 Jan. 2022
• DeSantis leads and appoints the heads of all state agencies.
  — Stephany Matat, Sun Sentinel, 1 May 2025
• The first step in that legal process would be to appoint a three-judge panel to consider whether to grant the request.
  — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 18 Mar. 2022
• Macron will have to appoint a new Prime Minister—once again, of his own choosing.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
• The president gets to appoint people to the Fed, but then gets to quietly grumble about them like the rest of us.
  — David Goldman, CNN, 31 May 2022
• The 160 deputies who will be elected in June also will appoint judges and magistrates to the Supreme Court of Justice.
  — Soudi Jiménez, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
• The board must appoint someone within 60 days or the duty falls to Gov. Gavin Newsom.
  — Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Nov. 2021
• The courts would be likely to appoint a special master to redraw the district lines.
  — Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2022
• So, for example, a trust might give a person the power to appoint who gets the trust assets.
  — Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
• As part of the agreement, AT&T had the right to appoint seven board members and Discovery could pick six.
  — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2022
• Even if the ministry has objections, the judges can send the candidate’s name back, and the ministry must appoint them.
  — Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2023
• Removal would give Democrats trio on bench If the justices are removed, Hobbs would appoint three people to the court in her first term.
  — Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024
• He has been appointed two attorneys by the court and pleaded not guilty.
  — Evan Minsker, Pitchfork, 7 Nov. 2023
• The board settled into factions, and couldn’t break its 3-3 tie to appoint a new trustee to fill a vacancy.
  — Henry Krausse, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Mar. 2023
• Each was entitled to appoint two members to the for-profit board.
  — Robert Channick, chicagotribune.com, 21 Apr. 2022
• Of the seven justices on the state's Supreme Court, five were appointed by DeSantis.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2023
• Trump Media seeks to make the co-founders forfeit their stake in the company and to take away their ability to appoint members to the board.
  — Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
• Young, who was appointed by former President Bill Clinton, found the ordinance was too broad.
  — Cate Charron, IndyStar, 2 Sep. 2025
• Bonta, first appointed to his role by Gov. Gavin Newsom four years ago, is an important player in any ballot amendment’s passage.
  — David Weigel, semafor.com, 22 Aug. 2025