Learn INCUMBENT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
1. Heyward felt it had now become incumbent on him to act.
2. He defeated the incumbent governor by a large plurality.
3. The incumbent president faces problems which began many years before he took office.
4. But before doing so, there were a few words that he felt it incumbent upon him to say.
5. Balashev, feeling it incumbent on him to reply, said that from the Russian side things did not appear in so gloomy a light.
Meanings and Examples of INCUMBENT |