How to Use senator in a Sentence

senator

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  • The senator said the state leads the country in mass shootings.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 8 May 2023
  • He'd been elected a U.S. senator but had not yet been sworn in.
    — Michael E. Ruane, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Dec. 2022
  • The two have a decades-long relationship that spans back to the 1980s when Biden was a U.S. senator.
    — Rachel Scott, ABC News, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Debris is strewn across the floor, and a Trump flag has been added to the Democratic senator’s decor.
    — Leo Sands, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2023
  • While farm life suited Taylor, the role of a senator's wife did not.
    — People Staff, Peoplemag, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Biden wasn’t even halfway through his 36 years as a senator.
    — David Mark, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 5 July 2024
  • But without a full agreement to show to senators, a vote remained a long way off.
    — Karoun Demirjian, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Fox News followed up with the senator on this fact but did not receive a response.
    — Hannah Grossman, Fox News, 23 Jan. 2023
  • If your senior senator can’t do that, then someone needs to tell the senator to sit down and shut up.
    — Kyle Whitmire | [email protected], al, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Gallego, who is leading in the polls, would be the state’s first Latino senator if elected.
    — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The senator did not respond to an email seeking comment on the contract.
    — Jeffrey Schweers, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The state’s other senator, J. D. Vance (R.), is a co-sponsor and one of the bill’s most ardent supporters.
    — The Editors, National Review, 21 Mar. 2023
  • One famous example of how bad things can get comes from 1856, when a House member beat a senator with a cane.
    — Karoun Demirjian, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2023
  • There was no time for outrage to even verbal up and people to start calling their senator.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The vast majority of GOP senators, meanwhile, have declined to weigh in on the contest, though that could change with time.
    — Emily Jacobs, Washington Examiner, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The Democrat senator condemned Awad's comments when contacted about his ties to the group.
    — Joe Schoffstall, Fox News, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Likewise, the progressive senator’s pro-Israel stance has set him apart from much of the party’s left wing.
    — Christen Smith | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 25 July 2024
  • Prosecutors have alleged the senator used his wife as a go-between for the bribes.
    — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 1 July 2024
  • The congressman has been a steady critic of the senior senator from Arizona.
    — Jon Gabriel, CNN, 11 Dec. 2022
  • The senators asked Silver to respond within one week to a series of questions.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Melton, himself a former state senator, strode to a podium inside a meeting room at the Statehouse and made his pitch.
    — Vernal Coleman, ProPublica, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Brown, Ohio's three-term senator, is set to face one of the Senate's toughest reelection challenges in 2024.
    — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Current and former staffers who have tied the knot say the longtime Iowa senator revels in the number of staffers who found love with one another.
    — Jennifer Calfas, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Markey is pushing for hearings in key committees on the issue, a spokesperson for the senator said.
    — Naureen Malik, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Not a single Republican senator who has weighed in on the race has endorsed her.
    — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
  • Several of the senators who have now spoken out are up for reelection in 2024.
    — Stefan Becket, CBS News, 26 Sep. 2023
  • After three attempts, the senators' filibuster failed to block the bill from passing.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 24 May 2023
  • The senator was responsible for $666 million in state projects funded by the bill.
    — Howard Koplowitz | [email protected], al, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Democrats currently control the Senate by a slim majority, thanks to the four independent senators that caucus with the blue party.
    — Solcyré Burga, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Democrats currently hold the majority with 51 seats in the upper chamber, which includes four independent senators who caucus with them.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024

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