Example sentences for: incumbents

How can you use “incumbents” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Having already paid too high a political price for Gingrich's failings, Republican incumbents don't want another headache leading the party.

  • Generally, incumbents do have enormous advantages in clout, money, and name recognition.

  • Finally, lest their opponents' weakness not suffice to produce a landslide, both incumbents got further help from a third-party candidate: Nixon from George Wallace, who drained white Southern support from the Democrats, and Clinton from Ross Perot, who likely will drain white suburbanites from Dole.

  • Incumbent commentators noted that this will encourage licensees to "wait out" incumbents and increase the likelihood that incumbents would have to assume the costs of their own relocation.

  • Incumbents are wary about rocking the boat with scandal hearings.


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