Example sentences for: referee

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

  • But the United States' different principles for trade with Cuba are about to cause it trouble, thanks to the World Trade Organization--the newly established referee to police international trade disputes that Clinton was so proud to establish (and Congress to vote for) at the end of 1994.

  • In basketball, for example, the referee will often blow the whistle and call "illegal defense," which few viewers ever see in advance.

  • A woman martial arts competitor attacks a referee.

  • Instead, he repeatedly accused his hack protégé, Malcolm Gladwell, of cheating by writing parody, which was prohibited under the rules, and filled the Hackathlon referee's e-mail box with his whining.

  • Only then is the (now heavily revised) article formally submitted, whereupon the editor handpicks an expert referee to examine it line by line--a process that can easily take another year or more.


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