How to Use officeholder in a Sentence

officeholder

noun
  • Here’s a list of some officeholders who have been found guilty of charges but still won office after.
    — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 6 June 2024
  • But not every officeholder gets a break, even if members of their own party help draw the maps.
    — Brittany Shepherd, ABC News, 11 June 2022
  • Yet even as his stature grew, his dual roles as officeholder and businessman dogged him.
    — David Biller, Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2017
  • The law calls for the petitions to be filed in the appellate court where the state officeholder lives.
    — John Caniglia, cleveland, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Some of these folks are current officeholders with lots of obligations.
    — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Isom has been involved in enough campaigns to know that beating a sitting officeholder is tough.
    — Matt Canham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 July 2021
  • Fouts left office that month after 16 years as mayor and more than four decades as city officeholder.
    — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The vice mayor doesn't get paid more than other council members, and the officeholder's vote still counts as just one of nine.
    — Jason Williams, Cincinnati.com, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Every statewide officeholder and most state judges, including those on the state supreme court, are Democrats.
    — Will Swaim, Oc Register, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The officeholder can file to run for re-election in early 2022.
    — oregonlive, 8 Aug. 2020
  • State law requires the board to replace officeholders who leave office early with an appointee of the same party.
    — The Arizona Republic, 28 Feb. 2024
  • This is a key question for structuring a campaign against the sitting officeholder.
    — David Mark, Washington Examiner, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Historically, one of the goals of officeholders is to expand the base.
    — Eugene Scott, Washington Post, 22 May 2018
  • Lemelin said this part would be a constant reminder of the officeholder's power and the country's history.
    — Katherine Doyle, Washington Examiner, 5 Apr. 2021
  • But that can ruffle feathers in the context of a campaign where officeholders are expected to lock arms with those in their own party.
    — Joseph Morton, Dallas News, 4 May 2023
  • To impeach an officeholder, Congress must find the politician guilty of a high crime or misdemeanor.
    — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
  • And in an election year for many state officeholders, the politics of pot legalization look all the more complex.
    — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2020
  • The bill would also apply to the next president and vice president, though not to the current officeholders.
    — Nik Popli, Time, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Removal of an officeholder is the only penalty under the Hatch Act.
    — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 5 Jan. 2018
  • Masks are mandatory in the building, except in legislative offices, where the officeholder may set the rules.
    — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The question is whether or not Trump will release his results, which has been commonplace for officeholders before him.
    — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Before that happens, the officeholders and various interest groups may have to whittle down the list.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2025
  • With no members of Congress or statewide officeholders running for governor, the field is full of mayors.
    — Russell Blair, courant.com, 7 Jan. 2018
  • Six of the seven officeholders elected statewide are Hispanic, and all are Democrats.
    — Russell Contreras, Axios, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Blind trusts are an imperfect alternative because the officeholder knows what’s in them at the outset.
    — Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
  • That would set off a mushrooming scramble of other statewide officeholders who were down the food chain to forgo reelection for a chance to win a higher prize.
    — John C. Moritz, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
  • Generally, flags have been flown at half-staff for the deaths of major officeholders like past presidents and vice presidents.
    — Melina Khan, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
  • What makes this so frustrating and shameful is that the Party’s officeholders seem to agree that the situation is dire.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 17 July 2024
  • What about the race to replace Newsom, and the other statewide officeholders, in 2018?
    — Christina Bellantoni, latimes.com, 10 July 2017
  • Kirk’s death reflects a sizable increase in threats against officeholders and politicians at the local and federal level.
    — Arie Perliger, The Conversation, 11 Sep. 2025

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