How do you use Subcommittee in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like committee or commission, plus the exact meaning.
Subcommittee meaning
A committee formed by an existing committee, comprising a subset of its members.
Synonyms of Subcommittee
Using Subcommittee
- The main meaning on this page is: A committee formed by an existing committee, comprising a subset of its members.
- Useful related words include: committee, commission.
- In the example corpus, subcommittee often appears in combinations such as: subcommittee on, the subcommittee, appropriations subcommittee.
Context around Subcommittee
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 11 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Subcommittee
- In this selection, "subcommittee" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, appropriations, new, administration, chair, devoted and approved stand out and add context to how "subcommittee" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a new subcommittee devoted to and a new subcommittee which is. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "subcommittee" sits close to words such as accents, amplitude and bidaskclub, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with subcommittee
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Any recommendations made by the subcommittee would be later considered by the full council. (14 words)
Scott previously served as the subcommittee chair of the Commodity Exchanges, Energy and Credit subcommittee. (15 words)
A subcommittee of the House Rules Committee voted 3-2 to kill Senate Joint Resolution 240 on Monday. (18 words)
Amid growing focus on her potential involvement at the start of the year, she stepped down from her parliamentary role as chair of the subcommittee on human rights the same day she failed to declare a paid-for trip to Qatar in May 2022. (44 words)
At the weaponization subcommittee’s last session, Delegate Stacey Plaskett of the Virgin Islands, the top Democrat, rose from her seat and threw a piece of paper back at a Republican who had handed it to her to prove a point. (41 words)
Cole, who is also chair of the Appropriations subcommittee that funds the departments of Transportation as well as Housing and Urban Development, said he expects House Republicans will move to hold down discretionary spending during the next fiscal year. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
She Chairs the House Administration Subcommittee on Elections and the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations; and sits on the House Education and Labor Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services.
He also serves on the House Energy and Water Development Subcommittee and the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education Subcommittee on Appropriations.
While in the US Senate, chaired the Subcommittee on Public Health and Safety and the Subcommittee on African Affairs.
Scott previously served as the subcommittee chair of the Commodity Exchanges, Energy and Credit subcommittee.
Y.) announced this week he intends eliminate the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism in lieu of a new subcommittee devoted to investigating Trump.
Subcommittee chair Rep. Tim Kelly, R-Saginaw Township, told reporters after the subcommittee approved the budget on a mostly party-line vote that Snyder's proposal coming so soon before the governor leaves office is overly ambitious.
The subcommittee agreed to allow Cesan to gather applications and start the screening process with the help of one of the subcommittee members.
We’ve also put in place a new subcommittee which is a security subcommittee which offers safety and security for citizens in emergencies.
Acting Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Billy Nolen told a House Appropriations subcommittee a full-year continuing resolution could stall key technology modernization efforts.
A further update on the LRT expansion projects will be provided to council in a subcommittee meeting on Aug. 29.
Amid growing focus on her potential involvement at the start of the year, she stepped down from her parliamentary role as chair of the subcommittee on human rights the same day she failed to declare a paid-for trip to Qatar in May 2022.
Another bill amounts to an outright ban -- the Anti-Social CCP Act -- and is sponsored by Republican Mike Gallagher, Wis., and Democrat Raja Krishnamoorthi, Calif., leaders of the subcommittee on China competition.
Any recommendations made by the subcommittee would be later considered by the full council.
A report from a U.S. House Oversight subcommittee at the start of 2021 urged regulators to set maximum levels of toxic heavy metals permitted in multi-billion-dollar baby food industry.
Arkansas Republican Rep. Steve Womack, chair of the Financial Services appropriations subcommittee, said following the morning meeting that the conference was still “heavily divided” on how to fund the government past the Oct. 1 deadline.
As Mark Price, a Columbia CWP instructor and retired law enforcement officer, told a Senate subcommittee on Wednesday, even a little training can save lives.
A subcommittee of the House Rules Committee voted 3-2 to kill Senate Joint Resolution 240 on Monday.
At the weaponization subcommittee’s last session, Delegate Stacey Plaskett of the Virgin Islands, the top Democrat, rose from her seat and threw a piece of paper back at a Republican who had handed it to her to prove a point.
Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) has said that since Biden took office, he has received “dozens” of complaints from FBI whistleblowers that may relate to the subcommittee’s work.
Cole, who is also chair of the Appropriations subcommittee that funds the departments of Transportation as well as Housing and Urban Development, said he expects House Republicans will move to hold down discretionary spending during the next fiscal year.
Common combinations with subcommittee
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: