How to Use recipient in a Sentence

recipient

noun
  • There will be a record of edits that both the sender and the recipient can see.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 12 Sep. 2022
  • And then easy to wrap again when the recipient decides to regift it.
    — H. Alan Scott, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Fans can still get involved to vote on the next phase for the recipients.
    — Kansas City Star, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Is your gift recipient going straight from her desk to date night?
    — Dahvi Shira, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
  • The recipient could choose to frame the piece, tape it to the fridge, or stick it in an album.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2022
  • The gulf between the author of dry wit and the recipient who doesn’t get it.
    — Gene Weingarten, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The recipient gets to choose who to give it to the following month.
    — Te-Ping Chen, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2022
  • And that burdens a lot of our recipients.
    — Ashley Lopez, NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Each recipient is asked to keep their remarks to three or four minutes.
    — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Many people do it for themselves, and not just for the recipient.
    — Mark Strassmann, CBS News, 27 Nov. 2024
  • One recipient said getting a ticket was a dream come true.
    — Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 9 June 2026
  • That's the date the first wave of recipients won't see their accounts refilled for the month.
    — Heather Bushman, IndyStar, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Some states take steps to waive or forgive those amounts, since the mistakes are not the fault of aid recipients.
    — Tony Romm, Anchorage Daily News, 11 May 2023
  • Such cards were meant to shock, offend and upset their recipients.
    — Melissa Chan, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2026
  • The email cited no data but urged the recipient to hurry up and give.
    — Joshua Sharpe, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2022
  • And soon, recipients grew from a couple of dozen to a couple of hundred.
    — Sharon Chin, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
  • To receive it, the recipient has to enter that code into their own card.
    — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 28 Mar. 2022
  • And does this resonate with the recipient?
    — Terdawn Deboe, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
  • But in such cases, the recipients would also have to agree to abide by the lock-up agreement.
    — Stan Choe, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Some recipients haven't felt the impact yet.
    — Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 3 Nov. 2025
  • But buying a gift for an unknown recipient presents its own set of challenges.
    — Gege Reed, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Once a month a fresh bouquet will show up to brighten the day (and house or office) of the recipient.
    — Melissa Locker, TIME, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Still, at least one recipient took the Grammys to task for past female snubs.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Massie said on social media that the email recipient was a sultan.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Get the recipient’s attention with the first five words in the subject line.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2022
  • If one food stamp recipient had to leave their groceries behind at the check-out counter due to fraud, that’s one time too many.
    — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Charity is not simply a good deed but an act that changes both the giver and the recipient.
    — Mathew Schmalz, The Conversation, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Above all, both the sender and recipient should remain informed about a transfer.
    — Jason Phillips, Kansas City Star, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Click on the name of a category below to read about the top three vote recipients.
    — Staff Report, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
  • What started as a small assemblage of recipients has now grown into around a dozen of us.
    — Katherine Polcari, Southern Living, 8 June 2026

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