How to Use senate in a Sentence

senate

noun

• The Senate approved the bill.
• The Senate voted to repeal the tax cut.
• Its senate’s Democrats are just short of that fraction, with 60 percent of the seats.
  — Kyle Sammin, National Review, 28 June 2019
• The vote is necessary to begin a process that allows the senate to take a final vote by the end of the week.
  — Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati.com, 29 June 2017
• The GOP bills that could increase the presence of guns in schools are unlikely to pass the state senate.
  — Sanya Mansoor, Time, 23 Aug. 2023
• The same day the school's academic senate called on Nikias to resign.
  — NBC News, 26 May 2018
• The enhancement zone bill is now headed to the state senate.
  — Casey Tolan, Slate Magazine, 10 Mar. 2017
• In 49 states, this process takes place separately in the state senate and state house.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 14 May 2018
• However, the bill failed to pass in the senate in September last year.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 31 Mar. 2020
• This all feels like a philosopher king increasing his grip on the U.S. senate.
  — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Jan. 2022
• The chairman of the senate finance committee at the time wouldn't let the bill out of his committee.
  — Bria Felicien, ajc, 20 June 2018
• The Dems have to hold on to all of these seats to have any chance of taking the senate from the Republicans in November.
  — Ben Joravsky, Chicago Reader, 31 May 2018
• He was impeached but avoided removal by one vote in the senate.
  — Matthew Glenesk, Indianapolis Star, 31 Dec. 2019
• Previously a home to the supreme leaders of Venice, the palace also housed courts, prisons, and the senate.
  — Oddur Thorisson, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 June 2018
• The actor and advocate used his time in front of the senate to also talk about the need for more outspoken men.
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 26 June 2018
• An effort to overturn Indiana’s ban on light rail failed in the state’s senate in March.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 29 June 2018
• The move highlights the state senate’s unusual power structure and sets off a new round of...
  — Mike Vilensky, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2017
• The senate recently passed a bill to make closing a prison a much longer and more difficult process.
  — Samantha Melamed, Philly.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• A lot depends on the outcome of the election, especially in the U.S. senate.
  — Gernot Wagner, Bloomberg.com, 23 Oct. 2020
• Virginia also has one such bill that was moved to the state senate on February 5.
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Feb. 2020
• In the senate one Democrat voted no and five either did not vote or voted present.
  — Jonathon Berlin, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2019
• Senate rules should be changed to rectify a mistake made 47 years ago.
  — George F. Will, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2017
• There will be no shortage of money flowing in the race, one of the top battleground contests for control of the senate.
  — Tony Cook, Indianapolis Star, 10 May 2018
• Board members are appointed by the governor and serve with the advice and consent of the state senate.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2020
• The bill (which is on its way to the state senate) was introduced by Rep. George Faught, who said some truly shocking things in its defense.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 24 Mar. 2017
• Woman running for senate in the 2018 midterm elections.
  — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 1 Oct. 2018
• The answer could be SB 346, a bill making its way through Florida's state senate.
  — Tyler Kendall, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2019
• New website just launched to help a potential senate run.
  — Tal Kopan, SFChronicle.com, 17 Sep. 2019
• Student and faculty senates had insisted on such public forums.
  — WSJ, 6 Dec. 2023
• The resolution was sent out to members of the Eastern university senate, as well as the three other university senate presidents, Monday afternoon.
  — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 16 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024