How to Use commissioner in a Sentence

commissioner

noun

• The baseball commissioner decided to suspend the players for 10 games.
• At the hearing, commissioners came down on the side of the church.
  — Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 8 Feb. 2024
• In the end, Pham blamed Trout, who was the league’s commissioner.
  — Matt Young, Chron, 13 June 2022
• Dormer was out as commissioner before the end of the year.
  — Robert Kolker, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• The long wait for a park, though, has been worth it, commissioners agreed.
  — Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2024
• The commissioner and the people with him had all gone down to the field with five minutes or so to go.
  — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2023
• The off-the-field topic of the club’s lease with the state was downplayed by commissioner Manfred this week at the All-Star Game.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2023
• The commissioner hopes that charters in the future can be funded in part by the next TV deal.
  — Doug Feinberg, Chicago Tribune, 10 Apr. 2023
• Bull Nakano, the commissioner, climbed under the ropes to present the fighter with the championship belt.
  — Alyson Krueger Martina Tuaty, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2023
• Cox, who is Black, will take over as commissioner next month.
  — Fox News, 13 July 2022
• The commissioner will most certainly be asked about the pace of CBA talks, which appear to be stalled.
  — Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 19 July 2025
• The department is feeling the strain in staffing, the commissioner said.
  — Alison Dirr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Dec. 2021
• Gary Bettman just hit 30 years in charge of the NHL, and will soon become the game's longest-serving commissioner.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2022
• Cook, the Clark County health commissioner, said the data lags by about 1.5 years.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2024
• And the groups want a five-to-10-year commitment, Perez told commissioners.
  — Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 11 Apr. 2024
• The change makes Garcia the fourth commissioner this year to win reelection for lack of a challenger.
  — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 24 June 2024
• Some of the commissioners questioned where the money would come from for the replacement.
  — Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2025
• Halper, a former parks commissioner, told me he had been concerned about fire danger due to thick brush in the area.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2025
• The league and its commissioner must stand against Monday’s ruling and prepare for a fight.
  — New York Times, 1 Aug. 2022
• Based on the non-compliance of the jail standards, the commissioners should have leverage to end the contract with the private jail in Garza County.
  — Noah Alcala Bach, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Feb. 2024
• There’s only one person above me, and that’s the commissioner.
  — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 9 Apr. 2025
• The two men, tucked safely back into private life, shunned the event, as did all the county commissioners.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
• If the owners follow through on their threat, Manfred could be one day away from being the commissioner who called off the start of the 2022 season.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2022
• Wilson, who is a port commissioner in Longview, also planned to meet with counterparts at the port of Shanghai, one of the biggest in the world.
  — Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2023
• Willhite, who served three terms in the House, lost a campaign to become a county commissioner in Palm Beach.
  — Katie Delk, Orlando Sentinel, 17 Nov. 2022
• And Seth Bullock, who accepts the job of health commissioner to avoid being steered to sheriff.
  — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2021
• Yet its commissioners—who now mostly work one day a week, from home—have seen their caseloads double.
  — Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
• Once the meeting resumed publicly, all but one of the commissioners approved the order.
  — Josephine Peterson, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
• Each commissioner is appointed by the Governor of California and confirmed by the state Senate.
  — Stepheny Price , Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 23 Aug. 2025
• Erik Menendez was denied parole by a two-member panel of California state parole commissioners after an all-day hearing Thursday.
  — Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025