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
• Click on any of the map points to see a picture profile of each legislator.
  — Meg Cunningham, ABC News, 9 June 2021
• 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
• At that time, just over 5% of legislators were moms of minor kids.
  — Thomas Wheatley, Axios, 30 Oct. 2024
• There was too much at stake, the soft-spoken legislator tells TIME.
  — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 22 Nov. 2022
• The only exception to the rule is that a mask does not need to be worn if a legislator is speaking to the chamber on the House floor.
  — Christopher Keating, courant.com, 27 Sep. 2021
• The legislator hinted last week that the bill may be coming.
  — Rebecca Griesbach | [e-mail], al, 9 Feb. 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
• Along the way, the land trust had its plans stymied by an anonymous state legislator who blocked a key grant needed to complete the group's purchase of the land.
  — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 May 2022
• The legislators cited protests of the Israel-Gaza war as reason for the new measure.
  — Rebecca Schneid, TIME, 14 Aug. 2024
• Jacque told the Journal Sentinel the bill has come to state legislators before.
  — Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 4 July 2025
• 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
• The interesting aspect of this is that the legislator is looking for a human to pick up the phone.
  — Per Ottosson, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
• 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.
  — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024
• State legislators and the Alexandria City Council still must approve the deal.
  — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2024
• Cuomo has faced calls to resign from all corners of the party, except for one legislator in the Bronx.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2021
• 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
• State legislators will return to Springfield, Ill., in the fall.
  — Phil Rogers, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
• The appetite in Washington for a stablecoin bill is high among legislators on both sides of the aisle.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 4 Apr. 2025
• 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
• Moore also evoked the stance of Secretary of State Shirley Weber, a former legislator who wrote the bill to create the task force.
  — Dustin Gardiner, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2022
• Almost all of them work full-time jobs, since being a legislator only pays $600 a month.
  — Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2021
• That effort is on pause as Democratic legislators left the state to deny a quorum for a vote.
  — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Aug. 2025
• The bills that Democratic legislators and a Democratic governor enacted last year were clearly aimed at crippling media on the other side of the ideological divide but, as Judge Mendez ruled, violate free speech.
  — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2025