How to Use alderwoman in a Sentence

alderwoman

noun
  • Spencer, a 42-year-old alderwoman, picks up bullet casings on her daily jogs.
    Jim Salter, Star Tribune, 1 Mar. 2021
  • The cynical side of Amy wonders if her aunt feared their presence could damage a future run for city alderwoman.
    Jayme Fraser, USA Today, 16 June 2025
  • Rodriguez-Sanchez, whose office is nearby, came out to see what happened and at one point, agents were seen pushing the alderwoman.
    Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2025
  • Lodi alderwoman Ann Groves Lloyd is the only Democrat in the race so far.
    Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez after the first-term alderwoman argued with the mayor over public safety.
    Gregory Pratt, chicagotribune.com, 30 Mar. 2022
  • The effort in Evanston was led by Robin Rue Simmons, an alderwoman who will join the commission when her term ends.
    Kate Gibson, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Sangiolo served for 20 years as an alderwoman and city councilor-at-large from Ward 4, and launched her bid for mayor in June.
    BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2021
  • In 1962, Vel Phillips, the city’s first black alderwoman, proposed a fair housing ordinance.
    John Eligon and Robert Gebeloff, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2016
  • However, on a neighborhood walk earlier this year, a resident approached the alderwoman to complain that the state of the property had not improved.
    Sophia Vento, Journal Sentinel, 12 July 2023
  • His death was confirmed by his daughter Susan Sadlowski Garza, a Chicago alderwoman.
    Sam Roberts, New York Times, 14 June 2018
  • In the email, Hanson allegedly called the alderwoman the n-word repeatedly, in addition to multiple slurs used to demean women.
    Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The building’s new occupant is a cold storage business, though, not another retailer as local leaders had hoped, said Chantia Lewis, a city alderwoman.
    New York Times, 30 June 2021
  • The building's new occupant is a cold storage business, though, not another retailer as local leaders had hoped, said Chantia Lewis, a city alderwoman.
    Michael Corkery, Star Tribune, 30 June 2021
  • Those discriminatory housing policies led Rue Simmons, a former alderwoman, to push for reparations.
    Adrienne Broaddus, CNN, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Maria Hadden, Chicago alderwoman for the 49th Ward, also tweeted her condolences Saturday.
    Caroline Kucera and Alaa Elassar, CNN, 20 Mar. 2022
  • From the start, the case surrounding former Waukesha alderwoman and county supervisor Kathleen Cummings had amounted to an uncertain degree of wrongdoing, at best.
    Jim Riccioli, Journal Sentinel, 8 May 2024
  • Residents who were with Chapman at the courthouse said the alderwoman’s arrests for allegedly disrupting City Council meetings are part of a bigger effort by the mayor to quash public participation in government.
    Mike Nolan, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2025
  • JoCasta Zamarripa, a city alderwoman representing the southside of Milwaukee, said she has been concerned about fires since earlier this year when several people were killed in residential fires in her district.
    John Diedrich, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Sep. 2021
  • The circumstances behind a longtime Waukesha alderwoman's abrupt resignation became dramatically clearer on Wednesday.
    Jim Riccioli, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Nov. 2021

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