How to Use congresswoman in a Sentence

congresswoman

noun
  • The congresswoman has fallen out with the city’s left wing in a series of high-profile incidents.
    Jack Ross, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2022
  • The congresswoman had been planning a rally in support of Parks.
    James Raineystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2022
  • The account has no connection to the congresswoman, a spokesperson said.
    Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2024
  • Brownley’s office confirmed that the congresswoman had quickly reached out to the White House about the case.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Finkenauer is former congresswoman who lost her reelection bid in 2020.
    Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Unfortunately, the issue here is deeper than one unhinged congresswoman.
    Jill Filipovic, CNN, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The car, a black Dodge Challenger with gold rims, sped down the block, just past the congresswoman’s house.
    Ruby Cramer, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Friends wrote to the township’s congresswoman to ask for help and dropped off soup and meals.
    Tracey Tully, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Horn, who had been married to the five-term congresswoman for 20 years, was 68.
    Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
  • This is not the first time the congresswoman’s personal life has been brought to light in the public sphere.
    Peyton Sorosinski, Washington Examiner, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Slotkin’s campaign responded that the congresswoman planned to purchase a home in Lansing once the terms of the lease were up the week of the election.
    Julie Tsirkin, NBC News, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The congresswoman had died in a car wreck a month earlier.
    Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 12 July 2024
  • Adams took the unusual step of calling out the congresswoman by name.
    Terry Spencer, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2023
  • My boss at the time was Pramila Jayapal, who’s now a congresswoman out of Seattle.
    Sonaiya Kelley, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The congresswoman served two decades in the Navy, retiring at the rank of Commander before she was elected in 2018 to the House.
    Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 13 July 2022
  • No, this deep-red district has been skeptical of the congresswoman, at least to start.
    Kaleigh Rogers, ABC News, 10 May 2024
  • There is no evidence the congresswoman made any such remark, and her spokesperson said the claim is false.
    Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Here, her dispatch from her first week as a congresswoman.
    Madison Feller, ELLE, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Democrats called for Greene's eyelash comment to Crockett to be stricken from the record and the congresswoman to be barred from speaking for the rest of the proceedings.
    Lauren Peller, ABC News, 17 May 2024
  • That's when Dre's lawyers served the Florida congresswoman a cease and desist.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Musk dared the Democratic congresswoman to run the same poll with her own followers.
    Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 27 May 2022
  • The race for Vermont’s open House seat also has the potential to send the state’s first congresswoman to Washington.
    Erin Spencer Sairam, Forbes, 13 May 2022
  • Now, the firebrand congresswoman is just one more first-place finish away from what is probably a safe House seat for life.
    Kaleigh Rogers, ABC News, 10 May 2024
  • In 2011, his wife, then congresswoman Gabriel Giffords, was shot in the head during a mass shooting outside of a grocery store.
    Anna Gordon, TIME, 22 July 2024
  • The two-term congresswoman has featured video of Nunn from the debate in TV ads she's been running since early August.
    Thomas Beaumont, ajc, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The Salem congresswoman received Trump’s endorsement two years ago and again in 2024.
    Brittany Carloni, The Indianapolis Star, 22 May 2024
  • It was meant, in my opinion, to make Crockett, a new congresswoman elected in 2023, feel embarrassed and out of place.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2024
  • Yet the two-term Colorado congresswoman is either in denial or doesn’t care about all the warning lights going off.
    Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Raised in West Los Angeles, Bass is a six-term congresswoman who represents a central slice of the city.
    Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 3 June 2022
  • The incumbent congresswoman has also sought to bring attention to her work on public safety and the fentanyl crisis.
    Torey Van Oot, Axios, 20 Sep. 2024

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