Example Sentences

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Charity got its first bad press the day the appointee pardoned the appointer for named, unnamed and presumably unnameable offenses.

From Time Magazine Archive

The well-being of the country, with appointer and appointees, becomes a secondary consideration.

From The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. by Various

O ASARI,—giver of plantations, appointer of sowing time, 2.

From The Babylonian Legends of the Creation by Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir

Ashur, the great Lord, ruling supreme over the gods; the giver of sceptres and crowns; the appointer of sovereignty.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Literature by Anonymous

Diomed, who was rather ceremonious, had appointed a nomenclator, or appointer of places to each guest.

From Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron