How to Use commissioner in a Sentence

commissioner

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  • The baseball commissioner decided to suspend the players for 10 games.
  • The only ones missing are former commissioner Bud Selig and Miguel Cabrera.
    — Maury Brown, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
  • San Antonio is no stranger to school district takeovers — or threats of takeovers — by the state’s education commissioner, Mike Morath.
    — Henry Krausse, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • The commissioner hopes that charters in the future can be funded in part by the next TV deal.
    — Doug Feinberg, Chicago Tribune, 10 Apr. 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
  • The change makes Garcia the fourth commissioner this year to win reelection for lack of a challenger.
    — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 24 June 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
  • Yet its commissioners—who now mostly work one day a week, from home—have seen their caseloads double.
    — Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
  • Once the meeting resumed publicly, all but one of the commissioners approved the order.
    — Josephine Peterson, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
  • For a while, the Rosedale Grandmont league commissioner said, one of the player's great-grandfathers, who was on a Negro league team, would come to games.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 1 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
  • People who want to sue the state need approval of the claims commissioner’s office and the legislature.
    — Dave Collins, Fortune, 6 May 2024
  • 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 | Jbryant@al.com, 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
  • County commissioners voted 5-2 Tuesday to partner with a national nonprofit that intends to buy the debt for pennies on the dollar and then forgive those who owe it.
    — Lauren Brensel, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2024

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