Example sentences for: delegate

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

  • If the Administrator finds the State procedure is adequate, the Administrator shall delegate to such State any authority the Administrator has under this Act to implement and enforce such standards.

  • Puerto Ricans residing in Puerto Rico cannot vote for president, and the delegate they elect to Congress has no vote.

  • The writer does not explore what might happen if, as critics fear, "rogue states develop the capacity to attack our cities," as former U.N. delegate Jeane Kirkpatrick put it.

  • In the end, the editor decided to delegate the challenge of self-exposure to the New York editor, who delegated it to an associate editor, who delegated it to an assistant editor, who delegated it to the youngest member of our staff, Aidan Weed, whose title is Special Issue of the Publisher.

  • The president did manage to send the Senate Richard Holbrooke's nomination as U.N. ambassador in February, eight months after the previous U.N. delegate left and eight months after Clinton announced he would nominate Holbrooke.


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