How to Use committeewoman in a Sentence

committeewoman

noun
  • Vega said before this year, there was one committeeman and one committeewoman.
    — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Democrats also elect a state committeeman and a state committeewoman.
    — Anthony Man, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Nov. 2020
  • Heather Atkinson, a local committeewoman, says the queues stretched down the sidewalk in both directions.
    — The Economist, 4 Nov. 2020
  • Seaton, 71, is a precinct committeewoman in the 5th District.
    — Craig Lyons, Post-Tribune, 11 June 2019
  • Seaton, 71, is a precinct committeewoman in the Gary’s 5th District.
    — Craig Lyons, Post-Tribune, 7 June 2019
  • Tina Beck, another precinct committeewoman at the time, said precinct officials were unaware of the DUIs.
    — Tony Cook, Indianapolis Star, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Jennifer Locke, a Republican precinct committeewoman from Hayden, was elected to vice chair.
    — Kimberlee Kruesi, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 July 2018
  • Driscoll would go on to marry a state politician and serve as the Democratic Party’s national committeewoman from Texas for 16 years.
    — USA Today, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Romaine Thomas, the former council member’s mother, is Ward 5’s committeewoman.
    — Fenit Nirappil, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Since the 2016 election she's gotten active in the Republican Party and is now a precinct committeewoman.
    — Skyler Swisher and Anthony Man, Sun-Sentinel.com, 20 Jan. 2018
  • In the past week, many Broward Republican activists complained to the state party about the way Sutton was operating, especially over the plans to pick a new state committeewoman.
    — Anthony Man, Sun-Sentinel.com, 7 Jan. 2018
  • But Martinez, the state central committeewoman of the 4th Congressional District, said her questions about Madigan had nothing to do with her run for circuit court clerk.
    — Ray Long, chicagotribune.com, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Rosie Tripp, the Republican committeewoman from New Mexico, wrote to other members of the committee.
    — Jonathan Martin, Alexander Burns and Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2016
  • Baudoin-Rea, a local Democratic committeewoman, wishes there was a more exciting, Obama-like candidate, but has accepted there isn’t.
    — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Sabrina Rodriguez, Colby Itkowitz, Meryl Kornfield, Dylan Wells, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The attorney ran and lost her bid for Wyoming governor in 2018 and was the Republican National committeewoman representing her home state for two years.
    — Byrick Klein, Alisa Wiersema, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Squires-Lee rejected that argument Thursday, saying that write-in votes in the Second Suffolk state committeewoman race were not accurately counted or recorded and that those errors changed the results.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Previously, Democratic voters cast separate votes for state central committeeman and committeewoman from their congressional district.
    — Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2026
  • His mother served as the Broward County Republican Party’s committeewoman and his father as president and co-chairman of various Broward County Republican groups.
    — Michael Adno, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The judge ordered the congressman to refrain from contacting Lindsey Langston, who was named Miss United States in 2024 and is a Republican state committeewoman from Columbia County.
    — Will Steakin, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Yet McElroy Kirkwood has years of public-service experience, serving as committeewoman in suburban Orland Township, and chairing the Moraine Valley Community College board of trustees.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2026

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