How to Use chief in a Sentence

chief

1 of 2 adjective

• Her job is their chief source of income.
• He has many concerns, chief among them his health.
• That is what their chief engineer told me.
  — Joel Feder, The Drive, 12 Mar. 2026
• And a chief rival wasn't far behind.
  — Zoe Collins Rath, Austin American Statesman, 22 Jan. 2026
• Prices As mentioned, cost will be a chief concern here.
  — Matthew Buzzi, PC Magazine, 14 June 2026
• That, in and of itself, is the chief source of frustration.
  — Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 11 Feb. 2026
• But all work and no play can make for a dull chief medical officer.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 12 June 2026
• But all work and no play makes for a dull chief medical officer.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 5 June 2026
• Britain’s chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, agrees with Hur.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC news, 1 May 2026
• Those changes will likely start with a new chief soccer officer.
  — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2025
• The text thus distinguishes between the court and the chief judge.
  — James M. McGuire, New York Daily News, 11 Jan. 2026
• Still, though, Reinhardt chose to remain onboard as a chief deputy.
  — Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 June 2026
• The chief challenge for The Pitt in season two was to keep the train on the tracks.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026
• Rybochkin said that the unit’s chief engineer had ordered it.
  — Lizzie Johnson, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026
• But all work and no play can make for a dull chief scientific officer.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 2 July 2026
• So will be the first chief genomics officer of Cedars-Sinai.
  — Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
• No chief exec in baseball had a worse offseason than Stearns.
  — Bill Madden, New York Daily News, 2 May 2026
• Ross now holds the title of chief software architect at Nvidia.
  — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 13 Mar. 2026
• Group chief exec Bekhait has since assumed leadership of the unit.
  — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2026
• The chief adversaries, in your view, of the United States.
  — CBS News, 17 May 2026
• None of those teams held a 2-0 lead over their chief rivals, as these Brewers did just two days ago.
  — Andy McCullough, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
• The group’s chief negotiator had lived in Doha for years.
  — Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
• Of course that was 1922, when the chief form of plastic in use was Bakelite.
  — Caroline Fraser, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
• The burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas is the chief driver of the climate crisis.
  — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 3 July 2026
• Dave Filoni is now in charge as co-president and chief creative officer.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 9 Apr. 2026
• And a chief symptom of this variant is pink eye – especially in children.
  — The Enquirer, 7 July 2023
• Who is Halligan’s chief witness going to be?
  — Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
• The trial’s abrupt rescheduling came days after King fired the chief deputy, who was a witness against him in the case.
  — Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 May 2026
• Fredrik Bolin had been the chief curator of painting and sculpture for almost three decades.
  — Douglas Stuart, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026
• Tonatiuh and Luna see this change as essential to the film's chief message.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025

chief

2 of 2 noun

• The chief says that's not enough.
  — Carmela Karcher, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2026
• That stat is not lost on the new chief.
  — Chris Hoffman, CBS News, 13 Feb. 2026
• His first day as chief will be April 5.
  — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 15 Mar. 2026
• Why did the chief fall out of favor?
  — David Ferrara, Cincinnati Enquirer, 21 Oct. 2025
• Meanwhile, the chief gets a slap on the back.
  — Liz Crawford, CBS News, 8 May 2026
• Gordon has served as chief for three years.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
• Hanegraaf will take over as chief at that time.
  — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 9 Mar. 2026
• The desk chief asked Chalker for ideas.
  — David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
• One of his main focuses as chief will be on staffing.
  — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 9 Mar. 2026
• The big chief also had a message to share.
  — Bill Whitaker, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
• The police chief is in bed with mobsters.
  — Zephyr Teachout, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2025
• The police chief would not say whether Nadeau was still armed.
  — Chris Boyette, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2025
• Even the city’s police chief has felt the effects.
  — Aaron Leibowitz may 8, Miami Herald, 8 May 2026
• He was shot and killed by officers at that time, the chief said.
  — Tom Winter, NBC news, 1 Mar. 2026
• When the two big chiefs square off, things can get a little heated.
  — Will Croxton, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
• Powell’s term as Fed chief is up in May.
  — Zev Fima, CNBC, 25 Jan. 2026
• The police have not found the gun used to kill Morales, the chief said.
  — Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
• Davis is now the police chief in Austin, Texas.
  — Cameron Knight, Cincinnati Enquirer, 20 Oct. 2025
• Her final day as chief is set for May 15.
  — Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026
• Lara’s family has not wished to see the video to this point, the chief said.
  — Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Mar. 2026
• That wasn't the chief's only challenge.
  — Frankie McLister, CBS News, 28 May 2026
• Homicides in the city saw a drop during Graves’ time as chief.
  — Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 30 July 2026
• Even the police chief of the public school system weighed in.
  — Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 16 July 2026
• Power struggles have emerged over past efforts to hire a new chief.
  — Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 1 May 2026
• One day, the jail’s chief of security opened a cell door for him.
  — James Verini, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
• Police do not yet know what the motive for the shooting is, the chief said.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 3 July 2026
• But the big chiefs aren't the only revelers who get dressed up.
  — Will Croxton, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
• The children's father lives in Utah, the chief said.
  — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 25 June 2026
• Madeline Romious said the board hopes to have a new chief in place by the end of the year.
  — Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 31 July 2026
• Oates served as chief from 2014 to 2019.
  — Aaron Leibowitz, Miami Herald, 14 Mar. 2026