How to Use supervisor in a Sentence

supervisor

noun

• The supervisor fired him after he showed up at work drunk.
• If you have a problem, go to your supervisor.
• Reba — who was Rogers' first pick of the five — is a bar supervisor and mom from South Dakota.
  — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
• No matter what supervisors do, the fight won’t end there.
  — J.d. Morris, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Mar. 2023
• The employee said a supervisor approved his idea and told him to move forward with the plan, the report said.
  — Naomi Martin, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2023
• In the past, Linda just called the DPW crew supervisor, who would tell her to leave the trash can out and a truck would come by to pick it up, usually by the next day.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 16 May 2023
• Conor Welch: First of all, our music supervisor manager Manish Raval is is the best in the game.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2023
• Miguel said that when he got hurt, his supervisor told him not to give his real age at the hospital.
  — Hannah Dreier, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2023
• The new supervisor is expected to be sworn in by early next month.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2023
• In one case, a supervisor witnessed an officer strike or shove a handcuffed man in the back.
  — Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
• If those people tell you to get lost, appeal to their supervisors.
  — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
• Those texts moved the supervisor to request a welfare check.
  — Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 15 Dec. 2023
• At the time, Feinstein was president of the board of supervisors.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2023
• In the meantime, stunned employees screamed at the supervisors.
  — Ted Genoways, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
• Feinstein, the president of the board of supervisors, was the first to find Milk’s body and became mayor after Moscone’s death.
  — Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2023
• For writers at all levels, from showrunners to script supervisors, the ripple effects from these changes went on and on.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023
• In that case, be sure to tell the interviewer to not contact your current supervisor but list all of the previous ones.
  — Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 July 2023
• Even those who do hold jobs often hide their past substance use from their supervisors or colleagues.
  — Lev Facher, STAT, 9 Nov. 2023
• Starting on May 20, supervisors and managers will be required to report to their offices or work in the field a minimum of twice per week.
  — Maya Miller, Sacramento Bee, 1 Apr. 2024
• The champagne vending machine (probably for the best) can only be turned on by a supervisor.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2023
• The former supervisor identified the man in the surveillance images as McGee.
  — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
• By that time Michele was living in Los Angeles working as a script supervisor.
  — AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2023
• With exhaustion setting in Wednesday, the supervisors fought over the plan’s details.
  — Antonio Olivo, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
• The grant program survived, though for a while it was cut in half, with each of the five supervisors controlling $1 million annually.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2023
• Borges said the supervisor noted someone higher up would have to make that decision.
  — Michael Rubinkam, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2023
• However, Zhang still disputed the call and asked to speak to a tournament supervisor.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
• Wood’s supervisor, English department chair Tess Pratt, had signed off on Coates’s book.
  — Hannah Natanson, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Sep. 2023
• Three air hub workers who often tend to the tables said supervisors largely left them undisturbed during this time.
  — Noam Scheiber, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2023
• Many of those discussions take place out of the view of the public, in closed door meetings with just enough council members and supervisors to avoid violating the state’s open meeting law, the Brown Act.
  — Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
• And so Ron Cormier, the longtime grounds supervisor, pays dutiful attention and stops to chat.
  — Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2023

Last Updated: 5 May 2024