Incumbent means: Chiefly followed by on or upon: leaning, or lying, reclining, or resting, on something else. Related words include necessary or current. Below you'll find 20 example sentences showing how to use Incumbent in practice.
Incumbent in a sentence
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Incumbent meaning
- Chiefly followed by on or upon: leaning, or lying, reclining, or resting, on something else.
- Of an anther: lying on the inner side of the filament; also, of a cotyledon: having its back lying against the radicle.
Incumbent in Dutch
Example sentences (20)
But a presidential primary is not a congressional race, especially when your objective is to take out an incumbent.
But doing so may only boost based on the incumbent's apparent desire to be challenged by his predecessor next year.
Four years later, even as incumbent president, his campaign speeches received less coverage and more fact checking.
In 2004, she made her maiden run for the Massachusetts Senate, but incumbent Republican Richard Tisei defeated her.
It's incumbent on me as to whether or not to hold that standard—which he'll never, ever intend on meeting—against him.
Carter became the 39th U.S. president after he defeated incumbent Republican Gerald Ford in the 1976 election.
Hogan eventually decided against what would have been a rare challenge to an incumbent president of his party.
In 2016, the last presidential election in which the GOP did not have an incumbent president, Mr. Trump won.
However, due to costs and staffing issues, the incumbent supplier withdrew from their contract in May 2022.
In fact, Deb Barma, who is also the incumbent leader of the opposition, was one of the proposers in Roy’s nomination paper.
Bilawal said the incumbent government is working on economic diplomacy to bring prosperity in the country.
Four years ago, Gardiner ousted a two-term incumbent without a run-off, pulling in 51% of the vote in the February election.
In 1995, in a close election in Poland, former Communist Party leader Aleksander Kwasniewski defeated incumbent Lech Walesa.
He defeated incumbent governor in 2018 to clinch the All Progressive Congress (APC) gubernatorial ticket.
And Fithian and Rivkin also wished well to Michael O'Leary the incumbent president and CEO of the theater owners' association.
In one of the few cases where the Teamsters JC 25 is supporting a rival to an incumbent, it reveals what their priorities are.
First, we have to come to terms with the fact that unconstitutional tenure elongation by incumbent presidents is itself a coup.
But it does clearly limit the ability of any other office holder to challenge an incumbent legislator!
For Katsina North Senatorial District, the incumbent Senator Ahmed Babba-Kaita of the PDP lost to Nasir Zangon-Daura of the APC.
Donors who were reluctant to go after an incumbent mayor will be likelier to get off the sidelines in the runoff, Broy predicted.
Common combinations with incumbent
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the incumbent 67×
- incumbent president 19×
- an incumbent 13×
- incumbent and 9×
- incumbent government 6×
- incumbent upon 6×
- defeated incumbent 6×
- and incumbent 5×
- incumbent democrat 5×
- republican incumbent 5×
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The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word incumbent. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.