How to Use president-elect in a Sentence

president-elect

noun
  • The president-elect’s promise to oppose any and all tax hikes was made in writing.
    — Jonas Torrico, National Review, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Now their president-elect is asking for a blank check and threatening primaries for any holdouts.
    — Justin Green, Axios, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The president-elect, president and past president serve on a three-person team.
    — Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • But on the eve of his return to the White House, the president-elect is being hailed as the app’s savior.
    — Barbara Ortutay, Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The audience would have noticed the 40-year-old president-elect’s empty right sleeve.
    — Richard J. Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 May 2024
  • The president-elect has promised to slash energy costs in half within the first year of his administration.
    — Dan Mangan,kevin Breuninger,spencer Kimball,christina Wilkie,annie Nova,brian Evans,alex Harring,yun Li, CNBC, 20 Jan. 2025
  • During the first 45 seconds of the cold open, half of the cast soberly rattles off some of the president-elect’s many glaring deficits.
    — Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
  • Hialeah wasn’t far behind Indian Creek, with a 76% win for the president-elect this year.
    — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2025
  • During our conversation, Schiff spoke of the president-elect only when asked.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
  • The president-elect’s son is also visiting the island this week, bringing further attention to the idea.
    — Tristan Lejeune, The Hill, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Peru became the first nation to recognize González as Venezuela’s president-elect.
    — Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 31 July 2024
  • However, the president-elect’s coin nosedived to $40 after Melania revealed her own coin.
    — Lex Harvey, Auzinea Bacon and Matt Egan, CNN, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The president and president-elect are from the same political party as Rocha, the Sinaloa governor.
    — Keegan Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2024
  • The president-elect has been married to Maria Pia Adriasola, a lawyer who has frequently campaigned at his side for more than three decades.
    — Fabian Cambero, USA Today, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The president-elect called the no-confidence vote himself, hoping that the applicable requirement for a two-thirds majority would then save him from dismissal.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The flights by China’s air force also come as Paraguay’s president-elect, Santiago Peña, visits the island.
    — Time, 12 July 2023
  • Fukuoka, the president-elect of the Idaho State Dental Association, calls that the sweet spot.
    — Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 12 May 2025
  • Gone is the long tradition that the United States has just one president at a time and that the president-elect generally tries to stay out of the way until taking the oath of office.
    — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2024
  • The first to congratulate the president-elect was the outgoing president, Mario Abdo Benítez.
    — Débora Rey, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 May 2023
  • Scott was named president-elect in June 2023, while also serving on the association's Board of Trustees.
    — Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 31 May 2024
  • Ono, Hosseini and UF also did not comment after the 10-6 vote against the president-elect on Tuesday.
    — Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 June 2025
  • According to the country’s Mehr News agency, on his first day as president-elect, Pezeshkian canceled a planned press conference to instead meet with Khamenei.
    — Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 16 July 2024
  • Her victory over leftist challenger Roberto Sánchez marks her fourth presidential bid and makes her Peru’s first female president-elect.
    — Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2026
  • Justin Brown, president-elect of the Brookline Educators Union and fourth-grade teacher, said some teachers are wary of adding more standards to their already-full plates.
    — Dharna Noor, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
  • On the day Biden’s presidential win was called in 2020, the musician shared a photo of himself being held as a child by the president-elect with his mother standing next to him.
    — Jacqueline Weiss, Peoplemag, 1 June 2024
  • Working at Apple wasn't in my plans, but to see a CEO who cared so much about environmentalism reminded me in many ways of talking to the president-elect.
    — Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Kellyanne Conway addresses the press from the lobby as the president-elect holds meetings upstairs, November 2016.
    — Curbed, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Adding to the men’s health momentum, the AMA’s president-elect, Willie Underwood, is a urologist and men’s health expert, too.
    — Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Malia and Sasha were just 10 and 7 years old, respectively, when their dad became president-elect of the United States in 2008.
    — Andrea Wurzburger, PEOPLE, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Chile’s president-elect, José Antonio Kast, is also expected to participate.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2026

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