How to Use in charge of in a Sentence

in charge of

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  • Which, from now on, means Birch & Alder is in charge of lunch.
    — Mara Severin | Eating Out, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2023
  • That would be the point person or the person who is in charge of the fire that day.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The band wasn’t going to be in charge of the film elements; that was not their thing.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Levesque at present is in charge of the company’s creative.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The coach in charge of Thursday’s session is Dmytro Rzondkovsky.
    — Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Your wife is in charge of herself, her patients and her friendships.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
  • As a child, my aunt worked for Grumman, for the man who was in charge of designing and building the LEM module.
    — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 3 May 2024
  • Ramsay was annoyed to see Grant, who was in charge of grilling the burgers, sticking cooked burgers in the oven.
    — Kturnqui, oregonlive, 17 Aug. 2023
  • But Solana isn’t in charge of actually taking down the fakes.
    — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 3 Jan. 2024
  • And he’s been in charge of this five-year rebuild, as Hyde points out, that hasn’t even resulted in a playoff win.
    — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Anyone can add expenses, see who’s on the hook for what, and settle up, as no one person is in charge of the group.
    — Wes Davis, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Gideon Lichfield: But there are people in charge of the exchanges when bitcoin is traded.
    — Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Perun was placed in charge of running the assault missions for those who remained.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Who will be in charge of checking IDs and making sure beer purchases aren't passed to minors?
    — Matthew Dolan, Detroit Free Press, 20 July 2023
  • What about the computers in charge of an air traffic control system?
    — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 29 May 2023
  • The monks in charge of the site conducted a funeral mass for him, marking his symbolic death.
    — Lanta Davis and Vince Reighard, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2024
  • By his second visit, the few members left in the dying organization put him in charge of the whole thing.
    — John Carlisle and Visuals By Ryan Garza, Freep.com, 11 June 2023
  • Rafah’s al-Quds School is overwhelmed with families, said Muhammad Issa, who is in charge of the shelter.
    — Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
  • This time around, Booster’s new script is about the gay best friend (Booster) of a bride-to-be who’s in charge of making sure his bestie’s wedding goes off perfectly.
    — Marc Malkin, Variety, 24 Jan. 2024
  • For instance, mallards defy norms of male dominance by putting the females in charge of picking a mate.
    — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
  • Michael Warrick, who was in charge of the investigation.
    — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The response on Friday was in a stark difference to the 2021 spill, when there were delays in identifying the magnitude of the spill and who would be in charge of the response.
    — Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 8 Mar. 2024
  • One of the firm’s partners, who was in charge of the investment, told Heiber that Concentric was worth fifteen million dollars.
    — Alec MacGillis, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • That can create the need for parts and systems that are older than the mechanics and technicians in charge of repairing them.
    — Lori Aratani, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
  • Justin Rosenblatt will serve as the executive in charge of production on behalf of The Wonder Project.
    — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Still, the authors argued that the ICZN could put taxonomists of the species’ native region in charge of renaming proposals.
    — Asher Elbein, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 June 2023
  • Rich Knebel is in charge of running the birthing barn, where pregnant cows, sheep and other animals will hopefully give birth during the fair.
    — Jared Quigg, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2023
  • Nic Lewis: The group that Hirschfelder had been leading was in charge of a weapon design that, it was discovered through experiment, was not going to work.
    — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The group argued that the Chevron doctrine short-circuited the way government is supposed to work by putting agencies in charge of the laws they were supposed to follow.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Dave Halls, the movie’s first assistant director, who was in charge of safety on set, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor in the case, avoiding prison time.
    — Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2024

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