How to Use nominate in a Sentence

nominate

verb

• We nominated her for player of the year.
• Someone has to tell her the truth—I nominate you.
• We expect the party to nominate him for president.
• The President nominated her for Attorney General.
• This is the first time the pitcher has been nominated by MLB.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
• Yeah, we’ve been nominated a few times and gone and won.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2023
• All three are nominated for best artist, best song and best video.
  — Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 19 Oct. 2023
• The album was nominated for album of the year and won best rap album.
  — Astrid Kayembe, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023
• At the 2022 Game Awards, Stray was nominated for best game of the year and won independent game.
  — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024
• While the title didn’t get a great reception, it was nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes that year.
  — Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2024
• Jack Lew's been nominated, but the Senate hasn't even held a hearing on that yet.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 8 Oct. 2023
• Bening is nominated for the award again this year for her role as Diana Nyad in Nyad.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2024
• Three current or former Utahns have been nominated for Emmy Awards — one of them for the first time.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 July 2023
• He was nominated for a second time in the same category in 2021 for his role in The Little Things.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2024
• They were nominated another six times in the next 10 years.
  — Ashraya Gupta, Scientific American, 7 Sep. 2023
• In other words: Only one male artist, Jon Batiste, was nominated for each of those awards.
  — Justin Curto, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2023
• The movie was nominated for Best Picture and Bullock won an Oscar for her work.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 14 Aug. 2023
• He has been nominated 17 times for the show, and a posthumous award would give him a seventh Emmy win for the sketch series.
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 June 2023
• For his work, Lowenthal was nominated for best performance at The Game Awards that year.
  — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 21 Oct. 2023
• Danes earned two of her three Emmys for her lead role in Showtime’s Homeland, for which she was nominated five times.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Mar. 2024
• To nominate an athlete for next week’s poll, email [e-mail] by Monday at 11 a.m. Please include stats and team results.
  — Darren Sabedra, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2024
• The singer-songwriter has won nine Grammys in the last five years and is nominated for two more awards at the ceremony, set for Feb. 4.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 17 Dec. 2023
• Lyonne, nominated for lead actress in the role, plays the hard-nosed sleuth Cale, who has an innate talent for sniffing out lies.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2023
• Only three months after its release, J.J Fad members were among the first class of hip-hop artists to be nominated for a Grammy.
  — Liz Sanchez, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
• Carrie's absence from the list is notable because she has been nominated in the category in 16 out of the past 17 years.
  — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 7 Sep. 2023
• Last week, Batiste was nominated in six categories for the 2024 Grammy Awards.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 13 Nov. 2023
• Readers were invited to nominate and vote online from April to June.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 12 July 2023
• He was initially nominated to replace her, and the two spent half a term on the bench together when he was instead tapped to be chief justice.
  — Mariana Alfaro, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
• The Primetime Emmy Awards are always evolving — from who gets nominated to who wins, and even what the categories are called.
  — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
• Rexha was nominated in 2018 in the new artist category at the Grammy awards.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024