How to Use appointee in a Sentence

appointee

noun
  • The appointee serves a four-year term.
    City News Service, Daily News, 28 May 2026
  • None of those appointees are still on the School Board.
    Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Buchanan, 72, joined the board two years ago as part of a group of new appointees.
    Arkansas Online, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Most of those appointees ran for a city office anyway.
    Nick Sullivan may 8, Charlotte Observer, 8 May 2026
  • The appointee will serve out the rest of Lieberman's two-year term.
    Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Since then, the new appointees have taken steps to void those agreements.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Per state law, the school board votes on an appointee to fill the opening until the end of the board term.
    Mj Slaby, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Hennessey should be an appointee who gives the other side comfort.
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 12 May 2021
  • Now mayoral appointees have the only seat at the table.
    Kim Velsey, Curbed, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Ahead of the meeting, one of Kennedy’s new appointees stepped down from the panel.
    Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 25 June 2025
  • For decades, the school board was composed of seven mayoral appointees.
    Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2026
  • His appointees are more likely to be keyboard warriors.
    Donald Moynihan, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Those appointees often ran anyway, though.
    Charlotte Observer, 27 May 2026
  • The White House plans to replace Biden appointees with its own.
    Hannah Demissie, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Glazier is the first Garcetti appointee on the fire commission not to be retained.
    Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2021
  • Six of the seven state Supreme Court justices are his appointees.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 11 May 2026
  • The appointee is required to win election for a full, six-year term the following spring.
    Mary Spicuzza, jsonline.com, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Wesson and his appointee were just two among many who had influence over the line-drawing process, the court wrote.
    David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2022
  • The appointee will serve until the next regular school board election.
    Paula Wethington, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Ann Hsu, Breed’s third appointee, was in third with nearly 19% of the vote.
    Chronicle Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The judge, a Ronald Reagan appointee, blocked their removal.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Martinez did not comment on Licata or any of the new school board appointees.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Mar. 2026
  • That means Johnson — a Democratic appointee — will be out of a job soon.
    Fox News, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The justices reorient to the latest appointee and, in turn, to each other.
    Melissa MacAya, CNN, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Many of these appointees do not know how to manage large organizations.
    Russell Muirhead, Foreign Affairs, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The two other judges on the three-judge panel agreed with Wilkins, an Obama appointee.
    Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Arpit Gupta, an Adams appointee to the board, was the lone dissenting vote.
    Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 25 June 2026
  • But not for Hogsett’s cabinet members and appointees.
    IndyStar, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The board was controlled by Evers appointees when Rothman was hired.
    ABC News, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The board was controlled by Evers appointees when Rothman was hired.
    CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026

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