How to Use cosponsor in a Sentence

cosponsor

noun
  • Davis was among the first half-dozen signing on as a cosponsor.
    — Alan Wooten | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 31 Jan. 2025
  • At this writing, there are seven cosponsors.
    — Ted Williams, Denver Post, 12 June 2026
  • Khanna has 13 cosponsors on the bill so far, all Democrats.
    — Garrett Downs, CNBC, 18 Jan. 2026
  • That number has more than tripled to 46 cosponsors in this Congress.
    — Matt Laslo, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Donnelly, who cites his faith in his decision to cosponsor, is Catholic.
    — Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 18 June 2018
  • The measure now has nearly 150 cosponsors.
    — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 27 Jan. 2026
  • There were 69 cosponsors on the bill, all of them Republican.
    — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 5 Feb. 2025
  • At last check, Villanueva’s bill had 10 cosponsors, all but one of whom are Democrats.
    — Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 28 Feb. 2020
  • Look for ads in the ADN, which is a cosponsor of this important program.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The measure has 85 Senate cosponsors.
    — Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The bill has 73 cosponsors and is expected to pass by a wide bipartisan margin.
    — Grace Segers, CBS News, 19 July 2019
  • But the bill has dozens of cosponsors, and House passage will increase pressure on the Senate to follow suit.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The bill has bipartisan support from a total of 17 cosponsors.
    — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Smith was among the cosponsors of a bipartisan hydro tax credit bill in 2023.
    — Daniel Moore, Axios, 10 Feb. 2025
  • That’s the purpose of the trust fund, which was approved by the City Council last year with Dickens as a cosponsor.
    — Wilborn Nobles, ajc, 16 May 2022
  • The most recent version of the bill filed by Jackson Lee has 155 cosponsors, all Democrats.
    — Jay R. Jordan, Axios, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Along with Schriver, the bill has five other Republican cosponsors.
    — Arpan Lobo, Freep.com, 4 Oct. 2025
  • So far, the bill has no cosponsors and has been referred to the House Ways and Means Committee for review.
    — Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2026
  • An additional 53 members voted to add their names as cosponsors following the passage of the bill.
    — Sarah Swetlik | [email protected], al, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Vance is also a cosponsor of legislation to cap insulin costs in the commercial market at $35.
    — Victoria Knight, Axios, 15 July 2024
  • But Murray said the goal at present is to get as many cosponsors as possible before bringing the bill to Senate leadership.
    — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 2 May 2024
  • The bill, which counts three cosponsors, has been appointed to two House committees for consideration.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 2 July 2026
  • The bill, now headed to the Senate, has 21 cosponsors in the House, and all but two are Republican.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Of the bill’s 24 original cosponsors, nine have yanked their support in the past few weeks, following a massive outcry on social media.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Manchin is the only Democratic senator who has not signed on as a cosponsor on the For the People Act.
    — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 2 June 2021
  • The bill has 15 Republican cosponsors, a small sum for legislation that was introduced more than a year ago.
    — Rachel Scott, ABC News, 28 May 2026
  • Brochin was cosponsor of a 2009 bill that allows judges to require subjects of temporary protective orders to give up their guns.
    — Pamela Wood, baltimoresun.com, 9 June 2018
  • The measure, which passed the House in November, had 62 cosponsors when it was introduced in the Senate last year.
    — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2024
  • But because the bill was filed listing Coats as the sponsor and Donnelly as the cosponsor, it’s not counted as a win for Donnelly.
    — Maureen Groppe, Indianapolis Star, 21 May 2018
  • Hakeem Jeffries, the current House Democratic Leader, was a cosponsor of the bill.
    — WIRED, 10 Feb. 2023

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