How to Use in charge of in a Sentence

in charge of

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  • Who’s in charge of Venezuela now?
    Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Who's in charge of Iran right now?
    ABC News, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Square Eyes is in charge of world sales.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 13 Nov. 2025
  • But her boyfriend's cat is the one in charge of the house.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
  • His death came during his third game in charge of the club.
    Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
  • And the people in charge of them don't know how to fix it.
    Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 17 Mar. 2026
  • My son Juan Rivera is in charge of all these projects.
    Tere Aguilera, Billboard, 4 Sep. 2025
  • So Good, will be in charge of the bar program.
    Bahar Anooshahr, AZCentral.com, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Venkatesham is in charge of running the club.
    Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Which, from now on, means Birch & Alder is in charge of lunch.
    Mara Severin | Eating Out, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2023
  • Todd was in charge of juvenile crime.
    Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Who’s in charge of those dollars and showing us how they’re spent?
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 2 June 2025
  • That would be the point person or the person who is in charge of the fire that day.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The latter was in charge of a college program for the first time.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Bees are matriarchal, with a queen bee in charge of the hive.
    Elizabeth Bass Parman, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • And these guys are in charge of our media and social networks?
    Christian Josi, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025
  • So who will be in charge of making challenges during at-bats?
    Anthony Solorzano, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Wes Denning, who’s in charge of the homicide unit.
    Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Your wife is in charge of herself, her patients and her friendships.
    Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
  • For one thing, the board appears to be more in charge of the succession process.
    Harry Kraemer, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The band wasn’t going to be in charge of the film elements; that was not their thing.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Scheuermann was in charge of attacking set plays.
    Andy Naylor, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
  • King Charles put the Duke of York in charge of the Navy.
    Sam Knight, New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2026
  • That includes how much time will be spent at each household and who will be in charge of pick-up/drop-off.
    Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Raine was also in charge of the sale of Chelsea FC last year.
    David Hellier, Fortune, 1 May 2023
  • Dan Craig, who has long been in charge of building rinks for the league, did his research.
    Joe Smith, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The Black Keys are in charge of a Billboard chart again this week.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 10 May 2025
  • The seven-member board will be in charge of deciding who will take his place.
    Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Lawmakers should do the right thing and put patients back in charge of their dollars.
    Anthony Digiorgio, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Exactly who is in charge of the country is unclear.
    Cnn, CNN Money, 27 Jan. 2026

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