Example sentences for: nominate

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

  • Readers are invited to nominate events suitable for commemoration in Chatterbox's "year in review" item, which Chatterbox would like to post before Thanksgiving (in order to beat all the various century/millennium/decade-in-review surveys).

  • 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.

  • Analysts attribute the sell-off to tax incentives arriving with the new year and to heightened fears of an interest-rate hike when the Federal Reserve Board meets on Feb. 1. The NYT and Post lead with President Clinton's announcement that he will nominate Alan Greenspan for a fourth four-year term as chairman of the Fed.

  • This timing should make the Supreme Court a major election issue, as the next president will likely nominate three justices.

  • The NYT reports that the "spirited contests" between candidates isn't enough to spark much enthusiasm for the old-fashioned exercise in democracy: though presidential hopefuls have stumped tirelessly throughout the state (save John McCain, who is skipping Iowa to concentrate on next week's primary in New Hampshire), only one-ninth of registered voters are expected to turn out Monday night to stand up and nominate their candidates.


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