How to Use legislator in a Sentence

legislator

noun

• Write to your state legislator.
• But legislators have stepped in to mount a hearty defense of the lemonade stand.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
• This is what makes the school-choice hypocrisy of some state legislators so troubling.
  — Corey Deangelis, National Review, 1 Apr. 2023
• But the legislator who Parker said stopped the bill last year didn’t win re-election.
  — Daniel Walters, Idaho Statesman, 15 Feb. 2024
• There was too much at stake, the soft-spoken legislator tells TIME.
  — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 22 Nov. 2022
• While governors have most of the power, state legislators also have a say in the process.
  — Gibbs Knotts, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2023
• However their pleas to pass a bill to raise the stamp price have been ignored by legislators.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 6 May 2023
• The legislators cited protests of the Israel-Gaza war as reason for the new measure.
  — Rebecca Schneid, TIME, 14 Aug. 2024
• For the first time ever in the history of Virginia, a Black legislator will be the next speaker for the House of Delegates.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 16 Nov. 2023
• Flashback: In 2022, three state legislators resigned due to the job's high demand and low pay.
  — Meira Gebel, Axios, 23 Oct. 2024
• That was long ago — 59 years — when Brown first showed up in the state Assembly chamber to be sworn in as a freshman legislator.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• At the end of the semester, her teacher urged her to contact legislators.
  — Fortesa Latifi, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2023
• State legislators and the Alexandria City Council still must approve the deal.
  — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2024
• Derrick Evans was a West Virginia legislator who’d been sent to jail for his own role in the Capitol riot.
  — Thomas Lake, CNN, 20 Sep. 2024
• Over decades, a small group of legislators led by a prominent Democrat pushed the gun lobby to help transform the law, the courts and views on the Second Amendment.
  — Mike McIntire, New York Times, 30 July 2023
• In his heyday, Newton ranked among the most colorful state legislators as he was known for his flashy suits and quotable quotes.
  — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 12 Aug. 2024
• And in April, Montana legislators approved a bill to block TikTok in the state, a first-of-its-kind prohibition.
  — Kalley Huang, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• Reeb went on to win her seat as a state legislator during the November election.
  — Melissa Montoya, Peoplemag, 14 Mar. 2023
• How does that affect the legislators and their constituents in a positive way?
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
• The suspensions came as legislators were due to debate a contentious crime bill.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 22 Dec. 2023
• Biden and top legislators met Tuesday at the White House with little progress shared following the meeting.
  — Alex Thomas, Arkansas Online, 14 May 2023
• Group photos from the time show less than a dozen members in matching shirts holding signs calling out state legislators by name.
  — Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News, 16 Dec. 2023
• Some legislators have expressed concern about the vetting process for Afghan refugees.
  — Beth Bailey, Fox News, 17 Aug. 2024
• Bouchard, one of the state's most controversial and far-right legislators, has high-profile shoes to fill—and half a dozen contestants have thrown their hats into the ring.
  — Cy Neff, USA TODAY, 30 July 2024
• That pushed some advocates and legislators to really start to do more work on the ground, to protect the right to contraception.
  — Isabella Murray, ABC News, 23 May 2024
• The legislative session ends on May 29, and there is still time for legislators to use procedural tactics to bring up the bill again.
  — Ashley Killough, CNN, 24 May 2023
• Meanwhile, state legislators have passed a bill, AB 779, that aims to improve the legal process when disputes over groundwater land in court.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
• Lowe is asking legislators to back the funding to continue the program.
  — Ana Ramirez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Nov. 2023
• Boycott organizers did not know the timing would be both serendipitous and solemn, with Nevada legislators fixing the fine print on a bill to bring them to the desert.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
• Despite this, Illinois legislators are hard at work to make exchange a great deal more difficult.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024