How to Use senator in a Sentence

senator

noun
  • The end goal is to be a senator in my country one day.
    — Denise Schrier Cetta, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The full text of the senators’ letter is at this link.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 19 June 2026
  • In all, 62 senators are on this bill.
    — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
  • He's been our senator for 23 years now.
    — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 10 June 2026
  • The senator also promised to be on guard.
    — Zac Anderson, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2025
  • We’re told that rank-and-file senators are talking.
    — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Friday, with five senators present on the floor.
    — Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 27 Mar. 2026
  • How has your senator voted so far?
    — George Petras, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2025
  • How has your senator voted so far?
    — George Petras, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Not for the senators of today, but for the class that will follow them.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Seven senators were absent or not in the room for the vote.
    — Danielle J. Brown, Baltimore Sun, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Some senators who wrote that law say Congress should have a say.
    — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 9 Apr. 2026
  • In a rare move, state senators last month refused to confirm his seat on the board.
    — Ian Hodgson, Sun Sentinel, 27 May 2025
  • The senator said the state leads the country in mass shootings.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 8 May 2023
  • Most of those senators voted with their party on this bill.
    — David Brennan, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Trump is reaching out to senators — but not Democrats.
    — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • What, as a senator, would be your approach to these issues?
    — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Newsweek reached out to the senator's office via email for comment.
    — Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The move does not erase a vote senators took a couple of days earlier that passed.
    — David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 25 June 2026
  • Woods told senators that her abuse lasted seven years.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 5 Feb. 2026
  • But without a full agreement to show to senators, a vote remained a long way off.
    — Karoun Demirjian, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
  • As of this writing, the deal was on track to pass—maybe even in time for the senators to leave for dinner.
    — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The senator is just one of the witnesses waiting in the wings.
    — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2022
  • This is what Schiff has to deal with that the usual rookie senator does not.
    — David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The website said the senator asked for more after the initial amount was paid.
    — ABC News, 13 May 2026
  • While farm life suited Taylor, the role of a senator's wife did not.
    — People Staff, Peoplemag, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The senators say that is the highest rate in the first six months of any year publicly available.
    — Ximena Bustillo, NPR, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Buck was one of the state senators who was against redistricting last year.
    — Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 4 June 2026
  • In a 52-5 vote, state senators approved the bill last week.
    — Jenna Schweikert, CBS News, 28 May 2026
  • Who’s ahead in the key statewide races for senator, governor and chief justice?
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 13 June 2022

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