How to Use delegation in a Sentence

delegation

noun
  • He's been chosen to lead the delegation to the conference.
  • This is how the delegations would change in the big states.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2023
  • And our delegation that talked to the FDIC last night made that clear.
    — CBS News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • And our delegation that talked to the FDIC last night, made that clear.
    — CBS News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Dmitriev was part of a delegation to Saudi Arabia in initial rounds of peace talks with the U.S.
    — Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Learn To Let Go One of the hardest lessons for any entrepreneur to learn is the art of delegation.
    — Steve Sidd, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The fuller truth is that the Court has struck down delegations only twice in our history.
    — Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review, 25 June 2024
  • Here's how the vote broke down among Arizona's House delegation.
    — Morgan Fischer, The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2024
  • None of the members of the Atlanta delegation in the Legislature, who are all Democrats, was there.
    — J.d. Capelouto, ajc, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The way this would work is that each state—regardless of the size of the state's delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives—gets one vote.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The congressman’s resignation set off a scramble in the state to elect a new Utahn to the delegation.
    — Jeff Parrott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Sep. 2023
  • His influence held, and the U.S. sent its delegation to Berlin.
    — Debbie Sharnak & Yannick Kluch / Made By History, TIME, 30 July 2024
  • The Ukrainian delegation was asked to leave the White House after the argument.
    — Sarah D. Wire, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025
  • An Israeli delegation never made it to Cairo for the latest round of talks.
    — Adam Rasgon, New York Times, 5 May 2024
  • In the last weeks of 1969, delegations from tribes across the country journeyed to the island, curious to see what this new nation looked like.
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 20 Sep. 2023
  • There have been some firsts this Congress, including the first time three Black women are part of the Ohio delegation.
    — Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Since then, there have been many AfD delegations to Russia.
    — Erika Solomon, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The Ukrainian delegation left the White House soon after.
    — Katya Soldak, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Yet, the belief that there are no conditions proves the naïveté of the Argentine delegation.
    — Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 16 July 2023
  • Its House delegation of 52 remains nearly half-again as large as that of second-place Texas, with 38.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2025
  • And then that’s when (comments from the delegation) came from every angle.
    — Paul Gattis | [email protected], al, 1 June 2023
  • Steil's tweet sparked a spat among members of the delegation as the lawmakers took the debt ceiling debate online.
    — Lawrence Andrea, Journal Sentinel, 25 May 2023
  • Israel agreed to send a delegation, but Hamas had yet to respond –- until now.
    — Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2024
  • People can rightly blame me for that and for the consequences of delegation.
    — John Danaher, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The astronaut turned politician is one of the wealthier members of U.S. Congress — and the most well-heeled of his state's delegation.
    — Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Most of the San Diego County delegation appeared to give serious thought to the measure, even if the odds were against them ever voting on it.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Feb. 2024
  • And that meant there was a rare opening in the state’s congressional delegation.
    — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The Congolese presidency said in a post on X that the Rwandan delegation refused to take part in the meeting.
    — Justin Kabumba, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Dozens of foreign delegations were in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Friday to endorse the ceasefire proposal and the establishment of a special tribunal to investigate crimes of aggression against Ukraine.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 9 May 2025
  • The Chinese delegation did not offer an immediate assessment of what occurred, but Beijing struck a more measured tone about the negotiations’ overall direction.
    — Jamey Keaten, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2025

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