How to Use delegate in a Sentence

delegate

1 of 2 noun
  • He's been chosen as a delegate to the convention.
  • Across both schemes, the delegates are from across the U.K.’s nations and regions.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 Aug. 2023
  • And three-fourths of the delegates must support the endorsement.
    Lisa Demer, Alaska Dispatch News, 22 Oct. 2017
  • After Buttigieg dropped out of the race, she was elected as a delegate for Joe Biden.
    BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Ray Buckley, the New Hampshire Democrats' chair, said that over 200 of their delegates signed up to be part of the efforts.
    Isabella Murray, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Nezhad won about 53% of delegate votes while Frey came in second with 40%.
    Faiza Mahamud, Star Tribune, 5 July 2021
  • Phillips, a delegate since 2010, grew up as a Democrat.
    Mason Adams, New Republic, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Ward was re-elected with 51% of the party delegate vote.
    Cole Lauterbach, Washington Examiner, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Biden, who is on a roll in the primaries and has taken the lead in the delegate count, is getting plenty of advice.
    Joe Garofoli, SFChronicle.com, 16 Mar. 2020
  • That went too far for some delegates and the debate was reopened.
    Peter Baker, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2019
  • Sanders’s strong base and delegate haul still gives him a shot to win the nomination.
    Molly Ball, Time, 4 Mar. 2020
  • On May 7 of this year, the electorate chose the fifty delegates who will try again to write a new constitution.
    Ariel Dorfman, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Still, the way to the nomination is via delegates, and so the Feb. 6 primary is just for show.
    Mark Murray, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Trump is on track to win all of the state’s delegates to the GOP convention, which amount to 14% of the votes needed for the nomination.
    Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2024
  • That means that only 16 out of the GOP's 55 delegates in Michigan are up for grabs today.
    Ashley Lopez, NPR, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Texas has the second biggest haul of delegates (California has the most) in the GOP race.
    Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 12 June 2023
  • As a result of the scheduling dispute, at least some of the state's delegates are likely to be stripped away.
    Brittany Shepherd, ABC News, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Biden has won slightly more delegates than Sanders so far in the race for the nomination.
    Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Each school board is allowed one delegate at the session, which this year will be held in Chicago.
    Mike Danahey, chicagotribune.com, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Rhode Island, for one, hadn’t even sent a delegate to the convention.
    Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Still, the delegate count will remain close as votes from California roll in over the next few days.
    Rick Klein, ABC News, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Ten minutes later, the process had ended and delegates were asked to return to their seats while the votes were counted.
    Christopher Bodeen, chicagotribune.com, 11 Mar. 2018
  • Young, a former state delegate, said there was a quorum but the call was above board because the council does not oversee the jail.
    Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 31 Mar. 2023
  • DeSantis is in a distant second with 6 to 10 delegates, and the rest of the field tends to pick up at most a few delegates each.
    Kabir Khanna, CBS News, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Sroka, the Michigan delegate who is also on the club’s board, kicked them out quickly.
    Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Bacow posits that learning to ask for help and delegate tasks are essential life skills—and this is the perfect time to hone them.
    Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 24 Dec. 2023
  • But Trump has been working quietly to twist the delegate rules in his favor.
    Adam Nagourney, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2023
  • But delegates have warned that parts of the text are still not strong enough, and that the real work of reducing greenhouse gas emissions is still ahead of us.
    Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Slovakia, meanwhile, appealed to the emotions of the delegates.
    Billy Stockwell, CNN, 30 Mar. 2024
  • But at the end of the night on Super Tuesday, with all of this voting across the country, almost 50 percent of the delegates will have been chosen.
    ABC News, 10 Dec. 2023
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delegate

2 of 2 verb
  • He doesn't delegate very well.
  • Those chores can be delegated to someone else.
  • A manager should delegate authority to the best employees.
  • There is only one of you and a lot of the parts of my job are not able to delegate that.
    Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2020
  • A lot of times we’ve been delegated as plus-size folks off to the side.
    Samuel Maude, ELLE, 11 July 2023
  • Match the right person to each job and delegate your many tasks.
    Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 7 June 2021
  • Beat the burnout: Learn to delegate and to accept help throughout the day.
    Brittany Risher, Good Housekeeping, 26 Aug. 2019
  • The one job the CEO cannot delegate is vision and values.
    George Bradt, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Many parents delegate part of the teaching task to schools, in an act of trust.
    CNN, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Trust the platform provider and delegate the upkeep to them.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 21 June 2021
  • Now, though, there were things to delegate and a business to manage.
    Emily Lordi, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Sort that out, and when a bigger job comes up, then gather again and delegate.
    The Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Huguette was wealthy enough to delegate tasks that might otherwise have required her to leave the house.
    Meryl Gordon, Town & Country, 21 May 2014
  • After the loss to Dow, Herrington began to delegate for the first time.
    Mick McCabe, Detroit Free Press, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Use your quick mind to streamline your job or delegate some of your duties.
    Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 26 Feb. 2021
  • The best, the all-time biggest triumph in the domestic work wars, though, has to be delegating the bathrooms to the kids.
    Stacey Gill, Good Housekeeping, 21 Sep. 2015
  • Thus leaders have to be savvy and know how to delegate time so that neither the nonprofit nor the for-profit are harmed in the process.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Then, delegate that area down to a team member or even an entire team.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
  • That is not delegated to any other member of the court.
    Jack Kelly and Matthew Defour, Journal Sentinel, 30 Aug. 2023
  • This is great for a fast-growing startup bringing in new clients and team members, with a need to delegate tasks.
    Dallas News, 1 Nov. 2022
  • To start, people must learn to delegate tasks to the new technology.
    Erica Gunn, Forbes, 27 May 2022
  • Most of the innovation and big decisions will have been delegated down to the level of the team.
    The Economist, 5 July 2018
  • Building the three-tier floating shelf was so quick and easy that Rachel delegated the task to her children.
    Herrine Ro, Country Living, 6 Oct. 2015
  • Member-states have delegated more sovereignty over time to the EU.
    Garret Martin, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2019
  • There is no one best way for a leader to delegate these specific tasks.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Next, have an honest picture of your own strengths and the strengths of your teams, and delegate accordingly.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 20 May 2021
  • Learning how best to delegate and when to ask for help are also critical to the founder's journey.
    Miruna Girtu, Forbes, 19 July 2022
  • There wasn’t a difference, so the company decided to delegate such alerts to the bots.
    Rebecca Robbins, STAT, 13 Nov. 2019
  • The writers and producers of the show do a great job of delegating episodes to the different directors.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 May 2023
  • In either event, the question of what was delegated is settled.
    Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 1 Feb. 2024

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