How to Use senator in a Sentence

senator

noun

• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• 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 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
• 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 | [e-mail], al, 23 Dec. 2022
• The bill would likely need support from at least 60 senators to dodge a filibuster and make it to President Biden’s desk.
  — Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• Their dad took his oath as a senator by their hospital bedsides.
  — Adam Carlson, ABC News, 18 Dec. 2022
• Yet the New York senator did not commit to specific details.
  — Susan Haigh, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2023
• Some of the most vulnerable Democratic senators in this election are using the closing stretch to boast about their ties to former President Trump.
  — Stef W. Kight, Axios, 18 Oct. 2024
• Min, a state senator, is currently in a competitive, tight race against Baugh for the 47th Congressional District.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 14 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024