How to Use commission in a Sentence

commission

1 of 2 noun
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  • She gets a commission for each car she sells.
  • The salespeople in that store all work on commission.
  • She served on the city's water commission.
  • Both states set up commissions to examine their public schools.
  • The truth was that the commission was a front for the wealthy.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2023
  • The rest of the commission did not take up the matter at the time.
    — Justin Elliott, ProPublica, 23 Feb. 2022
  • The two Democrats on the commission voted against the plan.
    — Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 7 Oct. 2021
  • The panel sent the commission back to the drawing board.
    — Detroit Free Press, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Standard commission rates in the U.S. are among the highest in the world.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Still, the law does not appear to be on the commission’s side.
    — Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 15 June 2020
  • From there, Uber takes $8.33 in commissions and fees, which is about a third of the fares.
    — Samantha Leach, Glamour, 12 Dec. 2018
  • The rest of the commission agreed and voted 4-0 for denial.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Her need to make the sale or earn a commission was not even on her radar.
    — Ashley Libby Diaz, Forbes, 16 June 2021
  • The three-person commission would then award the bid to the end user.
    — al, 13 Apr. 2021
  • The project came out of a commission for an Earth Day event more than a decade ago.
    — Grace Ann Natanawan, SPIN, 22 Apr. 2022
  • But the two parties still diverge sharply on the scope of the commission.
    — Andrew Solender, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2021
  • With the new law, though, the film commission sees more demand for crews.
    — David S. Cohen, Variety, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The city hosted a retreat for the commission last month.
    — John Caniglia, cleveland, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Biden’s nominee to fill the fifth seat on the commission.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Bluemel has been fighting with the commission for months about the limits to the state-aid measures.
    — Birgit Jennen, Bloomberg.com, 16 Dec. 2020
  • For two weeks now, the commission has been stuck with 3-3 vote between Maj.
    — Elliot Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Dec. 2020
  • But the two Gary residents who serve on the commission were split.
    — Gregory Tejeda, Post-Tribune, 12 July 2018
  • Was the scale of this commission quite unusual for you?
    — Marley Marius, Vogue, 2 Aug. 2019
  • From there, the commission will choose the research plans that have the best shots at winning FDA approval.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2023
  • And sometimes that means giving up a chance to earn a commission.
    — Boston.com Real Estate, 18 Sep. 2019
  • The average headache won’t put you out of commission for hours on end.
    — Carly Vandergriendt, SELF, 19 May 2022
  • That commission would have had to finish its work last year.
    — New York Times, 22 June 2022
  • The fish commission has worked closely with coastal center for more than a decade.
    — Special To The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 9 July 2020
  • The surface lot has only been out of commission for weeks.
    — Bryce Airgood, Detroit Free Press, 9 July 2018
  • Two seats apiece on the commission and school board are up for grabs in November.
    — Tyler Estep, ajc, 7 July 2018
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commission

2 of 2 verb
  • The king commissioned the artist to paint his portrait.
  • A portrait of the queen was commissioned.
  • She was commissioned in the Navy as a captain.
  • The magazine commissioned a story about the world's best beaches.
  • The report on poverty was commissioned by the governor.
  • The ship was commissioned in 2004.
  • Dom Manuel was the first monarch to commission a set of china from China.
    — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2022
  • And sometimes the streamers will commission, fully cash-flow and be the bank.
    — Angus Finney, Variety, 27 Oct. 2021
  • The Avenue Concept and town will commission a new artist each year to paint the mural over.
    — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Four works of art were commissioned expressly for the site.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Last year, the nonprofit raised the funds to commission the Kwai for 25-day voyage.
    — Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 June 2020
  • Martinez was commissioned to paint Mahomes on the side of a taco shop across the street from Texas Tech’s campus.
    — Alison Booth, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2024
  • And yet, for maybe the first time since that day, the question of who commissioned her killing no longer appears so inscrutable.
    — Alexander Clapp, 1843, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Sky Kids and Peacock have teamed to co-commission a pair of new kids programs.
    — Jamie Lang, Variety, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Maybe Don Hilario can commission a full-pager from the hereafter to fund our good work?
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2019
  • The origins of the loafer date back to as early as the 1920s, when King George VI commissioned a country house shoe that became the first loafer.
    — Christian Gollayan, menshealth.com, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The king commissioned the necklace for his daughter in 1950.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 6 May 2023
  • About a year ago, after a work was commissioned, the artist came to San Francisco.
    — Leah Garchik, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 May 2018
  • For writers who are commissioned, Bunker 15 will pay 50 bucks for the honor.
    — Christopher Null, WIRED, 7 Feb. 2024
  • In 1984, Vanity Fair commissioned Andy Warhol to use that picture as the basis of a new work of art.
    — Sam Sanders, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2023
  • All feel as if they were designed to please the company that commissioned them.
    — David Pagel, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2019
  • Boetti would commission Afghan weavers to make the works, which would often takes years to complete.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Congress last year chose to commission a study of the issue rather than greenlight the reform.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 7 Oct. 2020
  • The bracelet wasn't a new piece Fergie had commissioned for the ceremony, mind you.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 18 Oct. 2018
  • For Phillips to commission its own line of jewelry would be as if Christie’s paid an artist to paint a picture, and then sold it.
    — James Tarmy, Bloomberg.com, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The piece is newly commissioned and one-of-a-kind; the attendant becomes part of the exhibit.
    — Eva Recinos, Los Angeles Magazine, 18 Jan. 2018
  • That way the museum could commission a replica of the vessel.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The newer works — all commissioned by the group — updated vintage tropes and styles.
    — Matthew Guerrieri, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2019
  • Then, there’s the work commissioned at an actors request.
    — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Carla Youngblood commissioned five artists to create work for the event.
    — Shauna Stuart | Sstuart@al.com, al, 26 Aug. 2023

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