How to Use appoint in a Sentence

appoint

verb

• Every year, the group appoints three new members.
• After his parents died, the boy's uncle was appointed as his guardian.
• She was appointed professor of chemistry at the university.
• He has been appointed two attorneys by the court and pleaded not guilty.
  — Evan Minsker, Pitchfork, 7 Nov. 2023
• Of the seven justices on the state's Supreme Court, five were appointed by DeSantis.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2023
• Trump Media seeks to make the co-founders forfeit their stake in the company and to take away their ability to appoint members to the board.
  — Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
• They were abetted by the Latin churchmen who forged the Donation of Constantine as the pope’s license to appoint a king of the Romans.
  — Dominic Green, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2023
• Eighty-three of the 132 cardinal leaders that would be tasked with electing the next pope were appointed by Pope Francis.
  — William Skipworth, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• Each will serve four years on a staggered basis, with terms expiring June 30 on the year they are appointed.
  — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2023
• Early in his term, Biden appointed a commission to study possible changes to the court.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2023
• Its members include two lawyers and two judges appointed by the Supreme Court and five non-lawyers appointed by the governor to three-year terms.
  — Scott Bauer, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2023
• Trump appointed three of the justices who voted in favor of overturning Roe.
  — Stefan Becket, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2024
• The lender will appoint an appraiser or inspector to check on the home’s progress before each disbursement.
  — Aly J. Yale, wsj.com, 19 Sep. 2023
• This week, Cushman was appointed to a two-year term that expires in January 2025.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Dec. 2023
• The state agency’s leaders are appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
• Five state Supreme Court justices, four appointed by Democrats, are weighing the case after two others on the bench recused themselves.
  — Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner, 2 Nov. 2023
• The five commissioners are appointed by the governor and approved by the state Senate.
  — Ryan MacAsero, The Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2024
• The commission is a three-member body, with all members appointed by the governor.
  — Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 9 Jan. 2024
• Moore’s spokesperson did not comment on why the governor’s office did not appoint a fourth member then.
  — Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 7 July 2023
• Rhone appointed Tess Roering to its board of directors.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2024
• On July 19, Sanders appointed Cox, an attorney and a lobbyist, as a special justice in the case.
  — Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2023
• He was also appointed to serve on the parks and recreation commission as the council liaison.
  — Jshortavon, cleveland, 26 Aug. 2023
• Since then, the court has become far more conservative, in large part as a result of the three justices whom Mr. Trump appointed as president.
  — Ernesto Londoño, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2023
• Brown was first appointed to the position in 2017 after Valdez resigned to run for governor.
  — Josephine Peterson, Dallas News, 18 Sep. 2023
• The mistrust even applied to mundane facts such as who was appointed to be head coach of the Iranian national soccer team.
  — Hossein Derakhshan, WIRED, 21 July 2023
• But with the takeover, its members no longer have any power, replaced by a board of managers appointed by the Texas Education Agency.
  — J. David Goodman, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2023
• Four are appointed by the governor and confirmed by state lawmakers.
  — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 17 Feb. 2024
• The successors of the inaugural set of members will be appointed to four-year terms, according to the ordinance.
  — Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2023
• Riley has served as the state’s education commissioner since the board appointed him in 2018 .
  — Niki Griswold, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
• For example, in March 2018, Japan’s navy appointed the first woman commander of a warship squadron.
  — Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 10 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024