Example sentences for: chairperson

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

  • Then, too, there have been the campaigners who have gone to what some regard as opposite extremes: if the head of a committee is known to be a man or a woman, then chairman or chairwoman must surely be the proper denotation; if the sex of the person is not known, then chairperson , though awkward-sounding, is the preferred form.

  • A letter to the NYT from a woman reader rejects the use of the term "chairman" by women as part of their job titles, advocating instead "chairperson."

  • Gargan, who encouraged Perot to enter the presidential race back in 1992 and subsequently fell out with him, defeated Perot's candidate, Pat Benjamin, to replace Verney as party chairperson.

  • Yet, many prefer chair to chairperson on the grounds of brevity and because it avoids the awkwardness of the longer alternative.

  • The final sentence is about as valid as would be the comment that nobody understands such an injunction as an order to write the address of the chairperson on a dozen envelopes, either.


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