How to Use lieutenant governor in a Sentence

lieutenant governor

noun
  • The lieutenant governor of Texas wants to change the name of a cut of a steak.
    — Peter Burke, Fox News, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The lieutenant governor has some electoral ground to make up.
    — Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 16 June 2026
  • Yes, Gavin, the lieutenant governor’s job was a joke.
    — Joe Mathews, Mercury News, 2 June 2026
  • Cox chose Rob Krop as his pick for lieutenant governor.
    — Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 23 June 2026
  • At least one Democrat is in the race for lieutenant governor.
    — Allie Morris, Dallas News, 10 June 2021
  • How tight a race will that be running against the current lieutenant governor.
    — ABC News, 26 Oct. 2025
  • For weeks, no Democrat got in the race for lieutenant governor.
    — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Husted has not been charged with a crime, but his lieutenant governor fingerprints are all over the case.
    — Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2026
  • When the lieutenant governor faced those challenges, he was tempted to crack jokes.
    — Peter Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 14 Mar. 2026
  • No need to waste a real leader in a nothing job like lieutenant governor.
    — Joe Mathews, Mercury News, 2 June 2026
  • Virginia will elect a woman of color as lieutenant governor for the first time.
    — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 2 Nov. 2021
  • The state’s last three lieutenant governors all ran for governor.
    — Nik Popli, Time, 3 Nov. 2025
  • That might make sense for the folks in the lieutenant governor’s office or the secretary of state.
    — Dan McGowan, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Kurka had not yet filed with either agency, and it is not yet known who will run as his lieutenant governor.
    — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Nov. 2021
  • The first-term lieutenant governor said there is a racial component to all of this that must not be ignored.
    — Daniel Bice, Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2022
  • The lieutenant governor has been leading the panel since early last year.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2020
  • If the governor had only two years left to serve, the lieutenant governor would finish the term.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2022
  • As lieutenant governor during that time, Newsom seemed to have learned.
    — John Seiler, Oc Register, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Miller is the first immigrant and woman of color to serve as the state's lieutenant governor.
    — Adam Thompson, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • While most kept their tempers in check, some raised their voices in anger and others catcalled the lieutenant governor.
    — Andrew Canulette and Sara Pagones | Staff Writers, NOLA.com, 29 Dec. 2020
  • New Hampshire, for instance, does not have a lieutenant governor.
    — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 2 July 2026
  • Duffy is a former New York lieutenant governor.
    — Robert Duffy, New York Daily News, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The White House is weighing in on scandal in the lieutenant governor's race.
    — Brittany Shepherd, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Sears becomes the first woman to serve as lieutenant governor and the first woman of color to hold statewide office.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Eleni Kounalakis, the current lieutenant governor, was the first woman elected to the role.
    — Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 6 June 2026
  • So far, the lieutenant governor’s chances of success in the primary look promising.
    — A.j. Herrington, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The lieutenant governor presided over the trial in a quasi-judicial role.
    — Philip Jankowski, Dallas News, 20 June 2023
  • King is the fourth Democrat to publicly naming who will join him on a ticket for lieutenant governor.
    — Bryn Stole, baltimoresun.com, 5 Jan. 2022
  • The governor and lieutenant governor would each make three of the appointments.
    — Mike Cason | [email protected], al, 10 May 2021
  • The lieutenant governor of Texas had an answer, and a solution.
    — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 27 May 2022

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