How to Use governorship in a Sentence

governorship

noun

• The state has done well during her governorship.
• For the first time since 1984, Democrats won the governorship, the Senate, and the House.
  — Glamour, 9 July 2024
• Once John stepped in front of him for the governorship, that was it.
  — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 5 Jan. 2023
• Green won the governorship with nearly two-thirds of the vote.
  — Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2023
• Schwarzenegger won the governorship in the 2003 recall of Gov. Gray Davis.
  — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2023
• After trailing in the polls in 2018, DeWine staged a comeback to win the governorship.
  — Arkansas Online, 15 May 2021
• Even Democrats had been worried about a blowout: the loss of a governorship, a senator and three House Democrats.
  — Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2022
• Winning the governorship by a 57 to 42 percent margin, Mr. du Pont got off to a bad start.
  — New York Times, 9 May 2021
• Democrats lost the Virginia governorship last week and nearly did the same in New Jersey.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 9 Nov. 2021
• Then the governorship changed hands, and the project was abandoned unfinished.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2022
• Graham was first elected to the governorship in 1978 and held office for eight years.
  — Alexandra Glorioso, Miami Herald, 19 Apr. 2024
• Polis spent five terms in the House before winning the governorship in 2018.
  — Arden Farhi, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2023
• The crucial swing state will hold its primary on May 17, with key races for a U.S. Senate seat and the governorship.
  — New York Times, 16 May 2022
• The office is next in line for the governorship, should the governor leave office for any reason.
  — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 22 Sep. 2022
• To take the governorship, Sanders will first have to win the Republican primary, and that may not be easy.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2021
• She was first elected to the lieutenant governorship in 2018.
  — Julia Reinstein, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2024
• It’s the only state of those six in which Democrats control both chambers of the Legislature and the governorship.
  — oregonlive, 29 Sep. 2021
• His challengers for the governorship took note of the interview.
  — Hannah Knowles and Lateshia Beachum, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Jan. 2022
• But if no Democrat runs and Newsom loses, the party will have fumbled away the governorship of the biggest state in the country.
  — Tal Kopan, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2021
• In 2018, DeWine won the governorship by three percentage points.
  — Dana Blanton, Fox News, 8 Mar. 2022
• The secretary of state is also first in line to the governorship, since Wyoming does not have a lieutenant governor.
  — Bytal Axelrod, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2022
• Democrats control the state legislature and the governorship in New York.
  — Melissa Holzberg Depalo, CNN, 31 Mar. 2022
• No Democrat has won the governorship since Mr. Chiles secured re-election in 1994.
  — Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2022
• Those roles are all full for now, with only two governorships expiring before the end of 2028.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 23 May 2024
• Campaigning on the issue, Democrats kept the governorship and won control of the state legislature for the first time in nearly 30 years.
  — Sarah Ewall-Wice, CBS News, 11 Nov. 2022
• Michigan was one of four states where Democrats gained control of both legislative chambers and the governorship.
  — Kristine Parks, Fox News, 17 Nov. 2022
• He was recruited to seek the mayor's office, then served two terms in the Iowa Senate before being the first Democrat to win the governorship in 30 years.
  — Mary Clare Jalonick, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2020
• He was recruited to seek the mayor’s office, then served two terms in the Iowa Senate before being the first Democrat to win the governorship in 30 years.
  — Mary Clare Jalonick, chicagotribune.com, 8 Dec. 2020
• Zeldin retired from the House at the end of last year, but re-cemented his status with a better-than-expected run for the New York governorship.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 3 Jan. 2023
• Notably, these demographic shifts have helped Democrats to statewide victories for the Senate and governorships.
  — Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024