How to Use commissioner in a Sentence

commissioner

noun

• The baseball commissioner decided to suspend the players for 10 games.
• At the hearing, commissioners came down on the side of the church.
  — Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 8 Feb. 2024
• Dormer was out as commissioner before the end of the year.
  — Robert Kolker, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• The long wait for a park, though, has been worth it, commissioners agreed.
  — Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2024
• The off-the-field topic of the club’s lease with the state was downplayed by commissioner Manfred this week at the All-Star Game.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2023
• Bull Nakano, the commissioner, climbed under the ropes to present the fighter with the championship belt.
  — Alyson Krueger Martina Tuaty, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2023
• And the groups want a five-to-10-year commitment, Perez told commissioners.
  — Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 11 Apr. 2024
• Based on the non-compliance of the jail standards, the commissioners should have leverage to end the contract with the private jail in Garza County.
  — Noah Alcala Bach, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Feb. 2024
• Wilson, who is a port commissioner in Longview, also planned to meet with counterparts at the port of Shanghai, one of the biggest in the world.
  — Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2023
• Once the meeting resumed publicly, all but one of the commissioners approved the order.
  — Josephine Peterson, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
• The commissioners, who lead a county that is home to about one in 10 of the state’s active voters, had been scheduled to vote on the appointment Wednesday.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
• After a nearly three-hour session that was closed to the public, commissioners made the selection on a 5-0 vote.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2023
• Reece was appointed by a 2-0 vote with Reece and the other commissioner, Denise Driehaus, voting yes.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 8 Jan. 2024
• The three White members are Republicans, while the two Black commissioners are Democrats.
  — Joseph D. Bryant | [e-mail], al, 31 Aug. 2023
• The commissioners, who were appointed by Gov. Mike Dunleavy, are set to meet later this month.
  — Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2023
• All five commissioners voted against giving the public library staff a 10% bonus in March.
  — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 11 May 2023
• Several commissioners said the move did not go far enough, because most of the trouble is in beach neighborhoods.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2023
• Continuing, the commissioner added that the pairing has certainly brought a much wider fanbase to the NFL.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 22 Nov. 2023
• Javier Cazares, whose daughter, Jackie, was killed in the shooting, failed to win a county commissioner’s seat as a write-in candidate.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2023
• This entity has a flag, a website, and a commissioner in London.
  — Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2023
• Angry words between Fort Lauderdale commissioners over a colleague’s use of the F-word to a city employee.
  — Steve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2024
• The commissioner resigned after the newsrooms asked about the appointment.
  — Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2023
• Grant was in custody for narcotics violations, theft and firearm charges, the deputy commissioner said.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 9 May 2023
• The 11 student commissioners are appointed by the Saratoga City Council for two-year terms.
  — Isha Trivedi, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2024
• In doing so, the agency's four commissioners cited the bar's failure to pay taxes as the primary reason for the denial.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 17 May 2023
• By the end of October, 600 of these groups were up and running across the country, according to the national police commissioner.
  — John Hudson, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
• The sanitation commissioner comes from one of the richest families in the country.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
• Fulton County is moving ahead with a plans for a new jail but commissioners failed to approved a companion plan to pay for the new jail’s design and to keep the old jail running until 2029.
  — Jozsef Papp, ajc, 18 Aug. 2023
• The commissioner’s office in New York, which is leading the investigation, plans to look into those as well.
  — Ken Belson, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• This time around the conference’s commissioner is laying out a more cautious business plan.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024