Sentence examples for superintend from inspiring English sources
"superintend" is a correct and usable word in written English
It can be used as a verb meaning to oversee or manage the execution of a plan or task, usually in an administrative setting. For example: "The principal superintended the implementation of a new safety protocol across the entire school district."
verb
To oversee the work of others; to supervise.
These restrictions he evaded with remarkable success...It seems to be agreed that he acquired a detailed knowledge of some of the corporations in which his winnings were invested, that he chose able and skilful men to superintend them, and that they were intelligently administered at least for the good of their owners.
Just as other ministries protect the industries they oversee, so too do the education bureaucrats who superintend almost 700 universities, three-quarters of which are privately run.
At the outbreak of World War I he was commissioned in the Royal Naval Air Service, but in August 1915 he was recalled to superintend the construction of government planes.
In addition the creditors may appoint a committee to advise and superintend the trustee.
While continuing, effectively if not nominally, to superintend the former agency, he now exercised control over the Federal Housing Administration, the Export-Import Bank, and the Home Owners Loan Corporationn.
He seldom mentioned her in his extensive correspondence (which still exists), and it is probable that he was interested mainly in a companion who would superintend his household without being involved in court functions and intrigues.
We are continuing our campaign, and continue to lobby for intervention from Ed Vaizey and Jeremy Hunt (who are responsible for superintending library services nationwide) to avoid yet more needless waste of public money and irreparable damage to our library service.
Saltzman superintended the writing, sculpting the character and the essence of the franchise – accentuating the Englishness of it all – and pushed for the roughneck Sean Connery as Bond over the effete James Mason-ish toffs mulled by Fleming and producer Cubby Broccoli.
While in Venice superintending the Aldine Press after his father, Paulus Manutius, had moved to Rome, he published his Epitome orthographiae (1575) and his commentary on Horace's Ars poetica (1576).
The major generals were also charged with superintending "a reformation of manners"—the imposition of strict Puritan codes of social and sexual conduct.
Exiled to Magdeburg, Amsdorf superintended the Jena edition of Luther's works.
