How to Use councillor in a Sentence

councillor

noun
  • The councillors may have been tired on Tuesday morning.
    — James Horncastle, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Uribe was then raised by his father, a city councillor in Bogota.
    — Gerardo Lemos, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Just a few months ago, Jyoti Gondek was a city councillor with 2% name recognition and a dream.
    — Courtney Shea, refinery29.com, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Meanwhile, their children, councillors and allies all seem hungry for war—and ensure there’s no turning back.
    — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 13 June 2024
  • The security guard lets go of Ruiter within a few seconds, and the councillor escapes with a red mark across his neck.
    — WIRED, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Ben Maguire, councillor for the prosecution, the woman is likely to see a prison sentence.
    — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 12 July 2007
  • But the more obvious explanation is that councillors are acting at the behest of their union allies.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2018
  • Instead that seat was contested by Au Nok-hin, a district councillor and activist.
    — The Economist, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Last week, twenty-five local councillors were up for reëlection, twenty-two from the Labour Party.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
  • If current trends continue, councillors estimate the city will see steep increases in some of these conditions.
    — Katherine Hignett, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Vote counts pointed to hundreds of Labour councillors losing their seats and the leadership of many local councils changing hands.
    — Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 8 May 2026
  • Others, though, argue that by blaming councillors for the disaster, the report lets the government off lightly.
    — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
  • During the pre-council meeting, councillors debated whether to amend the city’s fireworks ordinance.
    — Margaret Kates | [email protected], al, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The two-term district councillor was roundly defeated by a prodemocracy candidate whose campaign had been buoyed by months of sustained protests.
    — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Such a scheme would struggle to be justified now, says Steve Battlemuch, the councillor who chairs the company’s board.
    — The Economist, 3 May 2018
  • The accused include a nurse, a journalist, a prison warden, a local councillor, a soldier, lorry drivers and farm workers.
    — Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 11 Nov. 2024
  • Derrick Ssonko, a mechanic in blue overalls, says he was inspired to run for local councillor, but the party ticket went to a rival who paid a bribe.
    — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2020
  • Stuart Wright, a councillor from a Norfolk family, says that some of the new arrivals dug up his grandfather’s potatoes.
    — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • But councillors draw a parallel with austerity, where the government outsourced the blame for cuts by forcing local councils to decide what to axe.
    — The Economist, 17 Aug. 2019
  • Ted supports the project, and, at first, only one town councillor, a restaurant owner named Paula (Rachel de la Torre), opposes it.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Many of its victims were local councillors, business people or police in the small towns and tight valleys in the hinterland of San Sebastián.
    — The Economist, 9 May 2018
  • The Irish Times found similar near-unanimous rejection in a survey of local councillors, too.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Mr López is looking for a sympathetic councillor to present the petition on the anniversary of Guevara’s death.
    — The Economist, 20 July 2017
  • Chelsea must now wait for the outcome of Monday's councillors meeting but believe the local government has the power to kill the injunction by the use of planning law.
    — SI.com, 12 Jan. 2018
  • The councillors were not preparing to watch Jannik Sinner in the semi-finals of the China Open.
    — James Horncastle, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • And at least one Birmingham city councillor has suggested a $13 million city-wide sweepstakes for the vaccinated.
    — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 16 June 2021
  • The pair even kissed following the murder of the Changs, with Kai telling Meadow that her work murdering the councillor was impeccable.
    — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Julia Mejia, a Boston city councillor, after hearing from students who work in her office, posted a tweet asking those who are struggling to find housing to get in touch for help.
    — Natalie Gontcharova, refinery29.com, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Members of a pro-police Facebook group called Back the Blue Tulsa brought similar questions to a local city councillor.
    — Victor Luckerson, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2020
  • The councillors in Oxford had to issue a video statement calling for a return to rationality, but little seems to have helped lower the temperature.
    — Doug Gordon, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2023

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