How to Use senate in a Sentence

senate

noun
  • The Senate approved the bill.
  • The Senate voted to repeal the tax cut.
  • The same day the school's academic senate called on Nikias to resign.
    — NBC News, 26 May 2018
  • Senate rules should be changed to rectify a mistake made 47 years ago.
    — George F. Will, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2017
  • In 49 states, this process takes place separately in the state senate and state house.
    — Michael McCann, SI.com, 14 May 2018
  • Its senate’s Democrats are just short of that fraction, with 60 percent of the seats.
    — Kyle Sammin, National Review, 28 June 2019
  • In the senate one Democrat voted no and five either did not vote or voted present.
    — Jonathon Berlin, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2019
  • The senate recently passed a bill to make closing a prison a much longer and more difficult process.
    — Samantha Melamed, Philly.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • The vote is necessary to begin a process that allows the senate to take a final vote by the end of the week.
    — Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati.com, 29 June 2017
  • However, the bill failed to pass in the senate in September last year.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 31 Mar. 2020
  • Virginia also has one such bill that was moved to the state senate on February 5.
    — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Feb. 2020
  • The actor and advocate used his time in front of the senate to also talk about the need for more outspoken men.
    — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 26 June 2018
  • The chairman of the senate finance committee at the time wouldn't let the bill out of his committee.
    — Bria Felicien, ajc, 20 June 2018
  • State senates and assemblies, along with state governors, make the laws that rule the land when there is no federal law in place.
    — Melissa Walker, Teen Vogue, 3 Nov. 2017
  • An effort to overturn Indiana’s ban on light rail failed in the state’s senate in March.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 29 June 2018
  • Board members are appointed by the governor and serve with the advice and consent of the state senate.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2020
  • There will be no shortage of money flowing in the race, one of the top battleground contests for control of the senate.
    — Tony Cook, Indianapolis Star, 10 May 2018
  • Previously a home to the supreme leaders of Venice, the palace also housed courts, prisons, and the senate.
    — Oddur Thorisson, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 June 2018
  • The president is backing Whatley in an upcoming senate run in the state.
    — Michael Loria, USA Today, 20 Dec. 2025
  • The new restriction was so contentious among hunters that earlier this month, the state senate advanced a bill that would overturn the ban for next year.
    — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 22 Nov. 2019
  • McMorrow has raised more than $2 million to help Democrats flip the Michigan senate.
    — Time, 3 Oct. 2022
  • This task, and the stop work order itself, came down from Syracuse’s senate, where faculty input was not solicited.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The Dems have to hold on to all of these seats to have any chance of taking the senate from the Republicans in November.
    — Ben Joravsky, Chicago Reader, 31 May 2018
  • The answer could be SB 346, a bill making its way through Florida's state senate.
    — Tyler Kendall, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2019
  • But the proposal that passed the state senate in Lansing last week and is expected to sail through the house in coming days, puts a new, racist twist on the already-bad idea.
    — Adam K. Raymond, Daily Intelligencer, 3 May 2018
  • The senate represents thousands of faculty members.
    — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Mr Tokayev also affirmed Mr Nazarbayev’s daughter Dariga as head of the senate and thus next in line to the presidency.
    — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Trustees, presidents, and faculty senates determine what every graduate must know.
    — Kevin Wallsten, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2020
  • The new law doesn’t explicitly ban faculty associations and senates.
    — Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Aug. 2025
  • In the mid-1980s, John Perry Barlow tried to follow his father into the Wyoming state senate, losing the election by one vote.
    — Jesse Jarnow, WIRED, 5 June 2018

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