How to Use majority leader in a Sentence

majority leader

noun
  • As the majority leader, Thune can block most roll-call votes.
    — Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 18 Nov. 2025
  • Two were fired by the majority leader and then rehired later.
    — Marie Sapirie, Forbes, 6 May 2021
  • This wasn’t anything that was planned with the majority leader or anything.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Her view finds an echo with Mike Schultz, the House majority leader.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 13 May 2022
  • Look, the Senate majority leader is not known as a fashion icon.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 29 Apr. 2021
  • And we are joined now by the senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer.
    — ABC News, 12 Feb. 2023
  • The majority leader called me, insulted me, then abruptly hung up the phone.
    — Melissa Mahtani, CNN, 13 June 2018
  • Standing in a small cafe after dusk, Denys held the phone in his hand as the majority leader thanked him for his service.
    — Kostiantyn Khudov, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
  • But Dodd said McGuire has had no problem telling him no over the years as majority leader.
    — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Last year, her peers elected her majority leader of the state senate, the first woman and first openly gay person to serve in that role.
    — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Emmer would be in line to run for majority leader if Scalise ascends to the speaker's office.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Schumer, who has spent 40 years on Capitol Hill, is in his first year as majority leader.
    — John Harwood, CNN, 26 Sep. 2021
  • Schumer has served as majority leader since 2021 and now heads into his fifth term as a senator.
    — Savannah Kuchar, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2022
  • In the Senate, Chuck Schumer is in the driver's seat as the majority leader.
    — Emily Brooks, Washington Examiner, 20 Jan. 2021
  • And John Thune, the majority leader in the Senate, sent people home for four days.
    — NBC news, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Thune made the protection of the filibuster part of his campaign to become majority leader and has since spoken on the floor to the same.
    — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 3 Jan. 2025
  • The majority leader laid out a two-punch strategy on the Senate floor on Monday night.
    — Lauren Fox, CNN, 20 July 2021
  • Two years later, he was selected to serve as Senate majority leader.
    — Daniel Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 2 May 2024
  • Schumer, the Senate majority leader, hopes to have votes on potential amendments and the overall bill by week’s end.
    — Matt Canham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Aug. 2021
  • West side councilor Jared Evans will replace Lewis as the majority leader.
    — Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 21 Dec. 2025
  • In this case, that court would comprise the state Senate — minus its majority leader — and the seven judges of the state’s highest court.
    — Anna M. Phillips, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021
  • In 1973, she was elected as the majority leader, becoming the first woman to hold the post in any state.
    — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The challenges have been that the majority leader of the Senate doesn’t want to do anything on campaign finance reform.
    — Makena Kelly, The Verge, 5 Nov. 2018
  • The Senate majority leader has drafted two bills that would place speed limits on cyclists in bike lanes, multi-use paths and sidewalks.
    — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 12 Jan. 2026
  • In the Senate, the typical practice is for the majority leader to make motions to proceed.
    — Lindsay Wise, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2022
  • The majority leader has the ability to determine which proposals do and don't come up for a vote in the Senate.
    — Morgan Watkins, The Courier-Journal, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Kavanagh went on to become the Senate’s majority leader.
    — Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Here is a look at the life of Bill Frist, heart and lung transplant surgeon and former Senate majority leader.
    — CNN, 13 Feb. 2022
  • Benninghoff was elected to the majority leader post in June 2020.
    — NBC News, 13 Jan. 2022
  • But that did not matter to Trump and McConnell, who was Senate majority leader at that time.
    — Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2022

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