How to Use mayoralty in a Sentence

mayoralty

noun
  • This is one of the few things anyone can say with any certainty about the Adams mayoralty.
    — Curbed, 2022-08-22
  • In the first year of Newsom’s mayoralty, the hotel workers went on strike.
    — Maya Singer, Vogue, 1 Feb. 2026
  • The storms arrived with the start of his mayoralty in December.
    — The New York Times, Orange County Register, 2017-04-22
  • Bass, who won the mayoralty in 2022, is seeking re-election.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Campaigns for the mayoralty, swirling controversies around the state of the city and the presidential election were in full swing.
    — Danielle Echeverria, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 July 2025
  • The storm could serve as one of the first major tests of Mamdani’s mayoralty and his crisis management abilities.
    — Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Living costs in New York, for example, were the fastest growing in the country during most of his mayoralty.
    — Daniel Wortel-London, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2026
  • At the time, Gatti did not see a mayoralty, governorship, or a presidency on the horizon.
    — Maya Singer, Vogue, 1 Feb. 2026
  • This must be stopped, and his mayoralty should be terminated immediately.
    — Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 15 Nov. 2025
  • The upshot was that Mamdani came from near-obscurity as a state assemblyman to win the mayoralty of the nation’s largest city.
    — Niall Stanage, The Hill, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Chicago saw nothing but credit upgrades for the seven years that preceded Johnson’s mayoralty.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Lurie has focused his mayoralty on improving quality of life in the city and bringing back business to the city’s downtown, which emptied out during the pandemic.
    — Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2026
  • There have been sweeps of encampments under the mayoralties of Adams and Bill de Blasio, the man who Mamdani says was the best mayor in recent decades.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Burnham points to Manchester becoming the fastest-growing economic area of Britain under his mayoralty.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC news, 18 June 2026
  • This article has been updated to clarify that Republicans had held the mayoralty in Fairbanks for nearly a decade instead of over a decade.
    — Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Mayoral control has outlasted individual mayoralties because Albany recognizes time and time again that mayoral control is the choice that puts our children first.
    — Dennis Walcott, New York Daily News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The bully pulpit of New York City’s mayoralty is a powerful tool to propel a transformative initiative that could bring an end to the decades of conflict and foster peace.
    — Vijay Dandapani, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The prospect of Mamdani’s mayoralty scandalized many of New York’s power brokers, some of whom vowed to stop him in the November general election.
    — Mark Chiusano, Time, 14 Aug. 2025
  • When on day five of his mayoralty Zohran Mamdani acknowledged the inefficacy of homeless sweeps and avowed to end them, street homeless adults, advocates, and attorneys rejoiced.
    — Deborah Berkman, New York Daily News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Tenant advocacy groups had already expressed concern on Adams’ potential actions, pointing to a 12% increase in rents throughout his mayoralty.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Incoming President Barack Obama tapped Emanuel as chief of staff, and after nearly two years, Emanuel won the Chicago mayoralty and held the office for eight years.
    — Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 13 June 2026
  • Mamdani launched his campaign on Fordham Road with a viral video, making affordability, access and equity the cornerstone of his candidacy, and now of his mayoralty.
    — Latoya Williams-Belfort, New York Daily News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Bass was at a cocktail party as part of a delegation to Ghana when Los Angeles went up in flames last January, breaking a campaign promise to never leave the country during her mayoralty.
    — Marc Novicoff, The Atlantic, 31 May 2026
  • Focusing on affordability propelled Zohran Mamdani to the mayoralty last year and affordability will certainly be the buzz word of the 2026 midterms.
    — Bradley Tusk, New York Daily News, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Mamdani, who won the New York City mayoralty in November 2025 with nearly 51% of the vote, has emerged as a galvanizing figure on the Democratic left.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 24 June 2026
  • Even brand-name billionaire developer Rick Caruso’s $100 million-plus campaign war chest and spin on latter-day Rockefeller Republicanism couldn’t win him the mayoralty last go-around.
    — Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 2 May 2026
  • Like the Rudy Giuliani mayoralty, but sort of impotent in ruthlessness, the Adams administration has loved to identify a scourge, an opportunity to conjure existential threats of social breakdown that the mayor’s office can then claim to heal.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2025
  • On the ninety-first day of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoralty, a group of five truly young New Yorkers convened in a physics classroom at the Bronx High School of Science—Mamdani’s alma mater—to discuss his time in office so far.
    — Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Sliwa, the Republican nominee, told Fox News Digital that a Mamdani mayoralty would expand prostitution and trafficking across the city and cement Roosevelt Avenue’s reputation as a red-light corridor of illicit activity and violence.
    — Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The New Yorker is already planning our coverage for a momentous 2026, which will include pivotal midterm elections, the start of Zohran Mamdani’s high-stakes mayoralty, and the athletic feats and political undercurrents of the Winter Olympics and the World Cup.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025

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