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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.