How to Use governorship in a Sentence

governorship

noun
  • The state has done well during her governorship.
  • Green won the governorship with nearly two-thirds of the vote.
    — Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Haaland, by contrast, is running in a blue state and has a strong shot at her state's governorship.
    — James Powel, USA Today, 3 June 2026
  • Virginia has a one-term governorship.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Democrats haven’t won a top-tier statewide race since 2012 and haven’t won a governorship in more than three decades.
    — Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 21 June 2025
  • Democrats have controlled the New York governorship for decades.
    — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Then the governorship changed hands, and the project was abandoned unfinished.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2022
  • But the fight over the Missouri governorship is looking like a real race.
    — Mica Soellner, Washington Examiner, 7 Sep. 2020
  • His challengers for the governorship took note of the interview.
    — Hannah Knowles and Lateshia Beachum, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Jan. 2022
  • The office is next in line for the governorship, should the governor leave office for any reason.
    — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 22 Sep. 2022
  • This race marks Ciattarelli’s third attempt at the governorship.
    — Alex J. Rouhandeh, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Newsom’s governorship is drawing to a close.
    — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The state government has failed to pass a budget on time during Shapiro’s governorship.
    — Taylor Millard, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Graham was first elected to the governorship in 1978 and held office for eight years.
    — Alexandra Glorioso, Miami Herald, 19 Apr. 2024
  • New Jersey’s governorship has often switched back and forth between the parties.
    — Mike Catalini, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2026
  • She was first elected to the lieutenant governorship in 2018.
    — Julia Reinstein, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Yet his personal recklessness brought the first great challenge of his governorship.
    — Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Democrats lost the Virginia governorship last week and nearly did the same in New Jersey.
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 9 Nov. 2021
  • The win will give Democrats control of the legislature and governorship for the first time in 26 years.
    — NBC News, 6 Nov. 2019
  • The secretary of state is also first in line to the governorship, since Wyoming does not have a lieutenant governor.
    — Bytal Axelrod, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Those roles are all full for now, with only two governorships expiring before the end of 2028.
    — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 23 May 2024
  • The Capitol is waiting to see what Newsom has up his sleeve for the final budget of his governorship.
    — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Nearly eight years removed from his governorship, his name is still regularly invoked.
    — Alex J. Rouhandeh, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Nov. 2025
  • There is a crowded field of candidates already vying for the governorship, and others could also jump into the race.
    — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
  • To take the governorship, Sanders will first have to win the Republican primary, and that may not be easy.
    — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Next door in Mississippi, Democrats have their best chance in years to win a second governorship in the region.
    — NBC News, 3 June 2019
  • Newsom wants to end his governorship on the same fiscal high note, but Petek is saying, in essence, that’s an illusion.
    — Dan Walters, Oc Register, 19 May 2026
  • Judy Shelton got a taste of patent medicine of this sort when she was mobbed out of a Federal Reserve governorship.
    — Brian Domitrovic, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Polis spent five terms in the House before winning the governorship in 2018.
    — Arden Farhi, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Democrats control the state legislature and the governorship in New York.
    — Melissa Holzberg Depalo, CNN, 31 Mar. 2022

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