How to Use elect in a Sentence

elect

1 of 2 noun

• What happened: The Bengals win the toss and elect to receive the ball.
  — Michael Niziolek, cleveland, 25 Sep. 2022
• Pat Mitchell, who is chair of Sundance’s board of trustees, and chair-elect Ebs Burnough — said in a statement.
  — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Sep. 2021
• The documents appear to show that Wolkoff planned to raise the issue of the hotel prices with the president-elect.
  — Jonathan O'Connell, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Jan. 2020
• The president-elect was late, which I'm told is unusual for him.
  — CBS News, 31 July 2019
• When the president-elect took the temporary stage on the Zócalo, people cheered and wept some more.
  — Madeleine Wattenbarger, The New Republic, 5 July 2019
• The move confused and peeved other representatives-elect on both sides of the aisle.
  — Kerry Picket, Washington Examiner, 3 Jan. 2021
• Tauzin and Whitehead said no meeting was held to nominate, much less elect, Lee and John.
  — Patrick Danner, ExpressNews.com, 19 June 2020
• Carla Sigler is the treasurer-elect for Bosque County, Texas, where the couple now lives.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Dec. 2022
• In 2018, Atiq was named chairman-elect of the board of governors of the American College of Physicians.
  — Lara Farrar, Arkansas Online, 25 Dec. 2020
• And then, in the 2018 midterms, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, now a representative-elect, took it up.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 21 Dec. 2018
• Two of the people in the room were senators-elect who won their races in last month’s election and weren’t in office when the first round of interviews happened.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Dec. 2020
• Other teams will now be able to contact Burke, who could leave the program or elect to remove his name from the portal and remain at UNT.
  — Brett Vito, Denton Record-Chronicle, 20 Oct. 2020
• But the president-elect will also capitalise on his youth.
  — The Economist, 29 Nov. 2019
• The soon-to-be president-elect emailed Meacham a bibliography of some two dozen titles.
  — Susannah Jacob, The New York Review of Books, 5 Mar. 2020
• The president-elect also noted that the agreement would have to be ratified by the congresses of both nations to go into force.
  — Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2019
• But as president-elect, Mr. López Obrador has roiled both investors and some citizens.
  — Juan Montes, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2018
• The president-elect insists that the fight against corruption will continue.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
• Communism promised an earthly paradise, and saw a working-class elect who would attain it up against a supremely evil ruling class that had to be crushed.
  — Adam Hochschild, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2022
• The congresswoman-elect from California tried to open the door to her office for the first time...and encountered some resistance.
  — Abby Gardner, Glamour, 3 Jan. 2019
• Arizona governor-elect Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, will succeed Ducey next month when his term expires.
  — Robert Barnes, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2022
• But, as commissioner-elect, López will receive only about $6,000 per year.
  — Jackie Fielder, Teen Vogue, 11 Jan. 2019
• The results matter in practical terms; Glenn Youngkin is now the governor-elect of Virginia for example.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 4 Nov. 2021
• And, worse than Morales, Guatemalan president-elect Giammattei must come to power with only 42% of voters bothering to turn up to the polls, and only 59% of them voting for him.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 12 Aug. 2019
• Over the past week, many of these congresswomen-elect have documented their moves to D.C. in the way of their generation—on social media.
  — Abby Gardner, Glamour, 3 Jan. 2019
• Trump kept his word, and Gimenez became the representative-elect for Florida's 26th.
  — Byron York, Washington Examiner, 19 Nov. 2020
• The truly elect are invited to take an occasional shot of tequila with Solomun.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
• Beachwood mayor-elect, Councilman Justin Berns, will become the city’s mayor Jan. 1.
  — cleveland, 11 Nov. 2021
• On his first day as the presumptive Hamilton County prosecutor-elect, Greg Garrison didn’t exactly tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
  — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 5 May 2022
• Luis Lacalle Pou, the country’s conservative president-elect, is 46 years old but looks younger, with floppy brown hair, no jacket and sleeves rolled up.
  — The Economist, 20 Feb. 2020
• Governor-elect Maura Healey may need to build a border wall with New Hampshire, which doesn’t tax wage income, to keep millionaires from fleeing.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022

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elect

2 of 2 verb

• He hopes to be elected to the committee.
• I've elected to study French as my foreign language.
• Dad was still of sound mind and elected to have the surgery.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 5 Aug. 2023
• The Janesville native was first elected to the U.S. House in 1999.
  — Andrew Hahn, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
• Wynne was first elected to the state Supreme Court in 2014.
  — Will Langhorne, Arkansas Online, 29 June 2023
• Or even the push to get Harris elected to the Senate in the first place.
  — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2024
• Around the same time in 1995, he was first elected to the local council of St.-Ouen.
  — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
• Willie and John were both elected to the Assembly the same year.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• The seven justices who serve on the court are elected through statewide races and serve eight-year terms.
  — Neal Earley, Arkansas Online, 5 Nov. 2023
• The Bills have elected to allow Miller to continue to play in the weeks since his arrest.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 29 Dec. 2023
• How many people even know Lara’s name, even though he was elected twice?
  — John Seiler, Orange County Register, 20 Mar. 2024
• He was elected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 2005.
  — Joe Eachus, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
• Trible won anyway, and then was elected to the Senate in 1982.
  — Brandi Kellam, ProPublica, 22 Dec. 2023
• The yell leaders, elected by the Aggies’ student body, lead the band and fans in what amounts to a late-night pep rally at Kyle Field.
  — Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2023
• Students whose parents elected to keep them home for the day did not have the absence counted against them.
  — Nick Sullivan, The Arizona Republic, 22 Mar. 2024
• Voters have since elected her to lead the Department of Justice three times.
  — Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2023
• He was elected to Healdsburg City Council in 2004 and became the city’s youngest mayor.
  — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• In 2008, he was first elected to the House in an uncontested election.
  — Philip Jankowski, Dallas News, 10 July 2023
• Ousting Cruz is a longshot in Texas, which has not elected a Democrat in a statewide race in nearly 30 years.
  — Time, 14 June 2023
• The deal helped pave the way for McCarthy to be elected speaker after a grueling four days and 15 rounds of voting.
  — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 1 Oct. 2023
• Youngkin, elected two years ago, is barred by the state constitution from serving back-to-back terms.
  — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023
• Candidates who receive enough votes to pass a threshold for the number of open seats are elected.
  — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
• As the mobile pizza-in-a-bag purveyor approached her table, one Oprah did not elect for a slice.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 19 Jan. 2024
• Johnson was elected in 2022 to the remaining two years on the term of former Mayor Tom Barrett.
  — Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
• So, why would one of the most powerful women in the world, Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter, elect to endure this?
  — TIME, 14 Feb. 2024
• Others elect to survive on camp rations rather than brave the ravages outside.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• If elected, Bynum would be the first Black person to represent Oregon in Congress.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 19 Sep. 2023
• Emerging from a pool of 102 candidates, Olivia Chow is the first woman of color to be elected mayor of Toronto.
  — Maria Aspan, Fortune, 28 June 2023
• As voters head to the polls this weekend in the Andean nation to elect a new president, security is top of the agenda.
  — Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Oct. 2023
• Instead, the Jesuit cardinal of Buenos Aires was elected.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024