commissioners

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

At a subsequent meeting of the city’s Commission on History, Dale Theiling, one of the commissioners, explained that Charleston had agreed to release the monument to the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

Karen Lester, the daughter of an Aboriginal man who went blind due to British nuclear tests in South Australia in the 1950s, will also be one of the inquiry's commissioners.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

In fairness to the county commissioners, there wasn’t much they could have done.

From Slate • Jun. 1, 2026

“Miami would be at an extreme competitive disadvantage if we were to lose access to fuel,” she told commissioners.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

Twenty years earlier, at the request of Chicago’s South Park commissioners, Olmsted had studied both Jackson Park and, to its west, Washington Park, and the broad boulevard that connected them, called Midway.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson