Example sentences for: dept

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

  • The paper quotes a senior State Dept. official saying that if--as seems likely--Iraq chooses to end its cooperation with UN weapons inspectors, "it has literally chosen for sanctions in perpetuity."

  • The big story today is what happens when blue tape meets red tape, with the House Judiciary wrangle over the release of Starr report evidence--including the Clinton video--leading at USA Today , the Washington Post , and the Los Angeles Times . The New York Times puts that story on the top front, but goes instead with Congress' likely decision to transfer control of satellite exports back to the State Dept. from the Commerce Dept., a development with its roots in a now-nearly forgotten Clinton technology-transfer-for-political-donations scandal broken last spring by the Times , a development nobody else's front page covers.

  • The Post lead is another water molecule in Bob Woodward's drip-drip campaign against the Dept. of Justice's campaign fund-raising investigation.

  • Dept. of Faux-Groveling: Chatterbox (3/19) shouldn't have been as nasty as it was about John Broder's front page New York Times story last Thursday on Kathleen Willey's detractor, Julie Steele.

  • The WP reports that David Boies, Dept. of Justice lead attorney for the Microsoft case, has since last April been charging the government only $50 an hour, compared to his regular fee of $550 an hour.


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