Examples of mayoralty in a Sentence
During her mayoralty, the mayor greatly improved the city.
He won the mayoralty in the last two elections.
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Like the Rudy Giuliani mayoralty, but sort of impotent in ruthlessness, the Adams administration has loved to identify a scourge, an opportunity to conjure existential threats of social breakdown that the mayor’s office can then claim to heal.
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Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2025
Sliwa, the Republican nominee, told Fox News Digital that a Mamdani mayoralty would expand prostitution and trafficking across the city and cement Roosevelt Avenue’s reputation as a red-light corridor of illicit activity and violence.
—Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 4 Nov. 2025
This article has been updated to clarify that Republicans had held the mayoralty in Fairbanks for nearly a decade instead of over a decade.
—Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
The prospect of Mamdani’s mayoralty scandalized many of New York’s power brokers, some of whom vowed to stop him in the November general election.
—Mark Chiusano, Time, 14 Aug. 2025
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Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2025
Sliwa, the Republican nominee, told Fox News Digital that a Mamdani mayoralty would expand prostitution and trafficking across the city and cement Roosevelt Avenue’s reputation as a red-light corridor of illicit activity and violence.
—Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 4 Nov. 2025
This article has been updated to clarify that Republicans had held the mayoralty in Fairbanks for nearly a decade instead of over a decade.
—Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
The prospect of Mamdani’s mayoralty scandalized many of New York’s power brokers, some of whom vowed to stop him in the November general election.
—Mark Chiusano, Time, 14 Aug. 2025
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“Mayoralty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mayoralty. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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mayoralty
noun
may·or·al·ty
ˈmā-ə-rəl-tē 
ˈmer-əl-
plural mayoralties
: the office or term of office of a mayor
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