How to Use preside in a Sentence

preside

verb

• Court is now in session, Justice Raul Fernandez presiding.
• The move, announced in a letter to the presiding judge, clears the way for the FTX founder to be sentenced on March 28.
  — Corinne Ramey, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2023
• There’s a strong chance that presiding judges will have UW ties.
  — Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2023
• Pope Francis will preside over the Mass, in just one of the day’s novel aspects.
  — Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2023
• The presiding judge has not yet ruled on whether bail will be granted.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 11 May 2023
• The circuit’s chief judge, Ellen Masters, will preside over the grand jury.
  — Jim Saunders, Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2022
• Francis was to preside over a liturgy of the word service there late Tuesday and bless the waters.
  — Nicole Winfield, Anchorage Daily News, 26 July 2022
• Patrick, who is president of the Senate, will preside as judge.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 30 May 2023
• Then, in 1332 B.C.E., Tutankhamun ascended the throne at the age of eight or nine to preside over a nation in upheaval.
  — Zach Zorich, Scientific American, 4 Nov. 2022
• The presiding judge then sustained the line of questioning.
  — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 25 Mar. 2023
• The city’s Black leaders preside on the other side, starting with Johnson.
  — Joshua Lott, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2023
• Courts in these towns took in at least 10% of the budget in one year, but town employees confirmed that the mayor still presided there.
  — Samantha Sunne, ProPublica, 14 Dec. 2023
• Then, since the House still hasn’t picked a speaker, Johnson will preside from the dais over actual vote for Speaker.
  — Fox News, 8 Dec. 2022
• The late-night talk show host will preside over the ceremony in March, the show’s producers said Monday.
  — Lindsey Bahr, Chicago Tribune, 7 Nov. 2022
• Last night, Viserys arrives to preside over the debate over the succession of Driftmark, and by proxy, his own throne.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
• Stevens will preside over a coalition made up of nine Democrats and eight Republicans.
  — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Jan. 2023
• The court is now on the hunt to hire more hearing officers to preside over more than 6,000 civil traffic court cases a year.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2022
• The judges who preside over these courtrooms are similar to justices of the peace in other states and are not required to have a law degree.
  — Caleb Bedillion, ProPublica, 7 Oct. 2022
• The case hasn’t even started and the presiding judge has already lost his patience with Fox’s legal team and put them on notice.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 14 Apr. 2023
• During the trial, a brazen effort by the Nixon White House to influence the presiding judge backfired.
  — Ben Bradlee Jr., The New Yorker, 16 June 2023
• Kenneth Chesebro, a lawyer who advised Trump after the 2020 election, has asked for a speedy trial, and the presiding state judge has agreed to it.
  — Danny Hakim, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2023
• Kenneth Chesebro, a lawyer who advised Mr. Trump after the 2020 election, has asked for a speedy trial, and the presiding state judge has agreed to it.
  — Danny Hakim, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• Comer chose to be punished by state District Judge Jennifer Peña, who presided at the trial.
  — Elizabeth Zavala, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Apr. 2023
• The presiding judge had sworn an oath of obedience to the marshal as head of state in 1941, as had every magistrate in France except one.
  — Robert O. Paxton, Harper's Magazine, 17 Dec. 2023
• Reinhart did not choose to preside over the Mar-a-Lago case; magistrates are assigned at random.
  — Arden Farhi, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2022
• Even the presiding judge seemed unmoved by the prosecution.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 24 July 2023
• On Tuesday night, Charles is to preside over his first state banquet as monarch, held in honor of the president at Buckingham Palace.
  — Danica Kirka, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2022
• Once Coinbase has a chance to respond again, the presiding judge will decide whether a full jury trial is required.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 20 Sep. 2023
• Now, the victor of the secret ballot vote in Parliament will preside over a shaky unity government that will pave the way for fresh elections.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 20 July 2022
• On Moscow’s Red Square, Putin, 69, is due to preside over a cavalcade of troops and tanks, rockets and long-range ballistic missiles.
  — Laura Kingstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024