How to Use senator in a Sentence
senator
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The senator said the state leads the country in mass shootings.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 8 May 2023
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The senator is just one of the witnesses waiting in the wings.
—Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2022
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He'd been elected a U.S. senator but had not yet been sworn in.
—Michael E. Ruane, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Dec. 2022
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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
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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
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While farm life suited Taylor, the role of a senator's wife did not.
—People Staff, Peoplemag, 6 Oct. 2023
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If elected, Barnes would be the state's first Black senator.
—Bill Glauber, Journal Sentinel, 29 July 2022
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The Detroit Democrat is in her first term as a state senator.
—Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 18 May 2022
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The senator will retire from his post at the end of his fifth term, in January 2027.
—Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
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The senator’s lawyers have said that they have been informed that Graham is a witness in — and not a target of — the probe.
—Robert Barnes, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022
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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
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But without a full agreement to show to senators, a vote remained a long way off.
—Karoun Demirjian, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
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But the senator also said those traits are the reason Trump got elected in 2016.
—al, 15 Nov. 2022
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Groups like us, we were founded in 2017 by a former New York state senator.
—The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 21 Sep. 2022
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Fox News followed up with the senator on this fact but did not receive a response.
—Hannah Grossman, Fox News, 23 Jan. 2023
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If your senior senator can’t do that, then someone needs to tell the senator to sit down and shut up.
—Kyle Whitmire | Kwhitmire@al.com, al, 1 Aug. 2023
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Who’s ahead in the key statewide races for senator, governor and chief justice?
—Laura Johnston, cleveland, 13 June 2022
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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
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The senator did not respond to an email seeking comment on the contract.
—Jeffrey Schweers, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2023
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Sheehy, 39, is the second-youngest member of the upper chamber and one of four senators younger than 45.
—Savannah Kuchar, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025
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Calls for Feinstein to resign do not mean that she's been a bad senator.
—Jill Filipovic, CNN, 8 June 2022
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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
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Utah’s senior senator, Mike Lee, was first elected in 2010, and is up for reëlection again this fall.
—Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 9 June 2022
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In his first term as senator, Young gained attention for sometimes crossing the aisle to work with Democrats.
—The Indianapolis Star, 9 Nov. 2022
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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
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There was no time for outrage to even verbal up and people to start calling their senator.
—Laura Johnston, cleveland, 8 Dec. 2022
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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
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The Democrat senator condemned Awad's comments when contacted about his ties to the group.
—Joe Schoffstall, Fox News, 14 Dec. 2023
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Voters are also electing 40 of 76 seats in the upper house (Senate), replacing senators who are at the end of their six-year term.
—Hilary Whiteman and Angus Watson, CNN Money, 3 May 2025
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The move adds a fourth role for the former Republican senator from Florida in the Trump administration.
—Joey Garrison, USA Today, 2 May 2025
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