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Example sentences for: incumbent

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

When campaign strategists politely invite voters to retire an incumbent, they're said to be "giving the opponent a gold watch."
In Alabama and South Carolina, the incumbent governors, Christian conservative Republicans Fob James and David Beasley, resisted efforts to start Georgia-style lotteries.
Current federal CIOs are learning how to carry out their responsibilities in the federal environment with all of the incumbent expectations and constraints.
It is incumbent upon boards to establish processes that are appropriate and effective to restore investor confidence rather than relying on a checklist approach to corporate governance.
(The incumbent had committed suicide.)