How to Use in charge in a Sentence

in charge

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  • The decades-old smash has now spent a lucky 13 weeks in charge.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Most would have rather had him in charge of their games than just about anyone else.
    — Graham Scott, New York Times, 23 July 2026
  • That's the advice from the man who's in charge of the state's elections.
    — Mike Toole, CBS News, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Its time in charge has been divided across six distinct runs.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • God help us all if some idiot, some moron, ever put you in charge.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 18 July 2026
  • Sean would probably be in charge of where to go, where to stop, where to eat and all of that.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Yet, who was in charge of placing toxic yew plants along the carriage paths?
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 16 Aug. 2026
  • The single has now racked up a total of 30 frames in charge of the ranking.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • So this is a plea for those in charge to tear their eyes away from the box office returns and look at the film itself.
    — Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The difference is that Lamont has been in charge for eight years.
    — Theo Peck-Suzuki, Hartford Courant, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Second, putting one heir in charge of an estate can create friction with the other heirs.
    — Naomi Cahn, The Conversation, 29 July 2026
  • The entire election board has turned over, and a new elections director is in charge.
    — Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 16 July 2026
  • The Hartman mayor resigned last year, leaving just three trustees in charge.
    — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 31 July 2026
  • Will the person in charge please stop turning up Earth’s thermostat.
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2026
  • Nevertheless, no one knows who is in charge of these processes.
    — Adriana Gattermayr, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • Here's the lesson, Donna -- don't put your pool guy in charge of the reflecting pool.
    — ABC News, 2 Aug. 2026
  • But the mayor, who is in the middle of an election year, may not be the one in charge during the Olympics.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2026
  • There is now a permanent investigative squad on the case, along with a new special agent in charge.
    — Jennifer Mayerle, CBS News, 31 July 2026
  • No matter, Pohlad wanted to comment on his first trade deadline as the person in charge.
    — David Brown, Twin Cities, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Surely these will be his only two games in charge but none of this can be considered Renard’s fault.
    — Carl Anka, New York Times, 29 June 2026
  • Ruby Longstreet is in charge of the design and color elements.
    — Zuri Primos july 27, Kansas City Star, 27 July 2026
  • Moving up into the next tier will require another full month in charge as of this period.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • Before yesterday, nobody was claiming this could be Tuchel’s last game in charge.
    — The Athletic Uk Staff, New York Times, 16 July 2026
  • For many, a world with machines in charge can be hard to imagine without movies and books and their sometimes prescient visions.
    — ABC News, 26 July 2026
  • That wealth of experience is what makes France such a force in what will be his last tournament in charge of the team.
    — Ben Church, CNN Money, 30 June 2026
  • The core problem, though, is that no one seems to be in charge of designing and refining processes.
    — Adriana Gattermayr, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • Their parents, Sean and Courtney Fox, were in charge of the girls’ double stroller.
    — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2026
  • However, the details about who is actually in charge can get lost in the headline.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 19 Aug. 2026
  • This all leads to now, where the family is having trouble deciding who should be in charge of what happens next.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 18 Aug. 2026
  • And isn’t the person in charge of the front office on the hook when all but one offseason acquisition crashed and burned?
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 17 Aug. 2026

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