How to Use unelected in a Sentence

unelected

adjective

• Like the prince, the shah was an unelected monarch with a tarnished human rights record.
  — New York Times, 5 June 2022
• Congress should not have turned this much discretion over to an unelected board.
  — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 20 Sep. 2019
• Instead, that role is reserved for the queen, an unelected white Briton.
  — Benjamin Mueller, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2021
• Netanyahu and his allies say the changes are needed to curb the powers of unelected judges.
  — Tia Goldenberg and Isaac Scharf, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2023
• Netanyahu’s allies say the plan is needed to rein in the power of unelected judges.
  — Tia Goldenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2023
• His tour of the unelected ranges further than a lot of Americans might think.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 1 Oct. 2020
• Netanyahu and his far-right allies say the changes are needed to curb the powers of unelected judges.
  — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 24 July 2023
• Conservatives say the air board is an unelected board that wields too much power.
  — Calmatters, Mercury News, 8 July 2025
• Netanyahu and his allies say the country's unelected judges have too much power and need to be reined in.
  — Josef Federman, ajc, 13 Feb. 2023
• However, some felt that’s too long to have an unelected mayor leading the city.
  — Aubrey Wieber, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Oct. 2020
• In a democracy, no unelected judge or justice should hold power for life.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2019
• And what price will unelected judges and prison wardens pay when their decisions backfire?
  — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2018
• Projections that don’t come to pass are one more stick to use to beat central banks and the unelected technocrats who run them.
  — Fortune, 17 Jan. 2018
• The salaries of those who hold top unelected leadership positions in the city would also rise.
  — Journal Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
• This would ensure that voters, not unelected justices, have the final say.
  — Miriam Rosenbaum, Time, 30 Apr. 2026
• Italy could wind up with an unelected unity government — or new elections that bring the far right to power.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2021
• The alternative should not be a tyranny of unelected judges, right?
  — Vox Staff, Vox, 5 June 2024
• Of course, the unelected fret over their height insecurities, as well.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2022
• Trump’s fans are scared, too—but of the elites, who are seen as unelected autocrats limiting their freedom.
  — Rich Karlgaard, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• To them, the attacker died fighting an unelected regime that has stifled dissent.
  — CNN, 9 July 2021
• Some inside the country itself used the event to call for reforms or even replacement of the unelected head of state.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2022
• Democrats have sounded the alarm about the power Musk, an unelected billionaire, has amassed.
  — Mark Joseph, Newsweek, 24 Feb. 2025
• Iran's critics are quick to point out the country's elections are not free or fair, and the unelected supreme leader holds the most power.
  — Peter Kenyon, NPR, 27 June 2024
• But times changed and some grew concerned about the distance between an unelected office holder and voters.
  — Dan Horn, Cincinnati.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• But there has never been an unelected official like Elon Musk at the center of it like this.
  — Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
• The ruling makes clear that the voters in each state — not unelected judges — decide who is elected president.
  — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2020
• The current owner serves as the town’s unelected mayor—a role that comes with a small-town charm rather than bureaucracy.
  — Colin Burke, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2025
• Most of the unelected rulers of the Gulf states long ago lost interest in the Palestinian cause.
  — Senior International Correspondent Ben Wedeman, CNN, 29 Oct. 2020
• The law passed in July was the first part of the government’s plan to curb the authority of unelected judges.
  — Samy Magdy, Twin Cities, 1 Jan. 2024
• One lone, unelected activist judge cannot stop the will of the American people for a safe and secure homeland.
  — Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025