How to Use assemblywoman in a Sentence

assemblywoman

noun
  • The former assemblywoman blasted her party for failing to back her in last year’s election.
    — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2023
  • Harkey, a former assemblywoman, is now on the state Board of Equalization.
    — John Wildermuth, SFChronicle.com, 29 June 2018
  • Helped by her local assemblywoman, Camhi said, the district was given a state grant to pay for air conditioning units.
    — Laura Meckler, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The only online postings reporters could find for the nonprofit were made by the assemblywoman’s work Facebook page.
    — Fox News, 24 Nov. 2019
  • The assemblywoman’s bill seeks to place liability for harassment that may occur on the clients who have contracted the model for the shoot.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2017
  • The assemblywoman declined to comment as well, citing her need to recuperate from a recent health procedure.
    — Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 21 June 2024
  • But all those prior victories were against Democrat Christy Smith, a former state assemblywoman.
    — USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
  • If passed, the warning system would make California the first state in the nation to have an extreme heat alert system, according to the assemblywoman.
    — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 28 July 2022
  • Cathy Nolan, the longtime Democratic assemblywoman from Ridgewood, Queens, has been praised many times in these columns over the decades.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Amy Paulin, a state assemblywoman who represents the area, initially pushed back against the governor’s quarantine measures.
    — New York Times, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Melissa Melendez, the assemblywoman for the district, tweeted that all warehouse workers have been accounted for.
    — CBS News, 17 May 2019
  • But the breakthrough came when Nzali found a braid-wearing assemblywoman in North Jersey who agreed to sponsor legislation to help.
    — Jan Hefler, Philly.com, 13 July 2018
  • After the meeting, assemblywoman Crystal Kennedy said the announcement wasn’t a shock but did punctuate the seriousness of the events at hand.
    — Matt Tunseth, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Gonzalez-Rojas is a Queens assemblywoman.
    — Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas, New York Daily News, 4 June 2026
  • That left Nicole Malliotakis, a 36-year-old assemblywoman from Staten Island, as the party’s standard-bearer.
    — Shane Goldmacher, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Former state assemblywoman and former Goldman challenger Yuh-Line Niou is also considering a bid.
    — Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 9 Dec. 2025
  • The assemblywoman who wrote the fur products prohibition and the state senator who could kill the measure represent overlapping districts in Glendale and Burbank.
    — Glendale News-Press, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The Washington Examiner reached out to the Smith campaign asking if the assemblywoman believed her remarks in the video were appropriate.
    — Kerry Picket, Washington Examiner, 27 Apr. 2020
  • California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, a former assemblywoman, authored the bill that created the state’s task force, and the group began its work last year.
    — Sophie Austin and Janie Har, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Dec. 2022
  • California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, a former assemblywoman, authored the bill that created the state's task force, and the group began its work last year.
    — Sophie Austin, ajc, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The disagreement between the former San Diego Chargers center and the assemblywoman over legislation to ban tackle football until high school is one being played out in states across the nation.
    — Michael Smolens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 Feb. 2018
  • She has been brushed off by de Blasio though, who never misses a chance to conflate the back-bench assemblywoman with the leader of the free world (thus, in different ways, elevating both GOP politicians).
    — David Freedlander, Daily Intelligencer, 3 Nov. 2017
  • The high-profile contest for the South County seat pits Foley, a Democrat, against Dixon, a Republican assemblywoman.
    — Claire Wang, Oc Register, 3 June 2026
  • Ma, a former Democratic assemblywoman from San Francisco who was elected to the tax board in 2014, had earlier called for the investigation and had been pushing for a massive overhaul of the agency.
    — Phil Willon, latimes.com, 9 July 2017
  • Valdez is an assemblywoman representing Long Island City, Sunnyside, Woodside, Maspeth, and Ridgewood and a candidate in the Democratic primary for an open congressional seat.
    — Diana Moreno, New York Daily News, 10 Jan. 2026

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