How to Use senatorial in a Sentence

senatorial

adjective
  • The two fall-offs likely rank among the fastest in any brief period in the annals of major senatorial races.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2021
  • What can be gleaned from some 1,000 collective pages of senatorial pablum and prose?
    — Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 2 June 2017
  • One key point is that most of the leading writers of the Roman Empire were of the senatorial class.
    — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 17 June 2021
  • The committee's haul aligns with the support senatorial candidates have amassed in the states.
    — Katie Ross Dominick, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2019
  • There were still elections every year, there was still jockeying among the senatorial classes to get these offices and win these elections.
    — Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The months since have been an exercise in senatorial rebranding.
    — Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Even as his priorities expand to senatorial races in the Deep South, there's room for tasteless fun.
    — Geoff Edgers, chicagotribune.com, 2 Mar. 2018
  • If each states’ electoral votes were apportioned per each states popular vote, the small states would still have the advantage of the two senatorial ballots.
    — Star Tribune, 6 Nov. 2020
  • While some senatorial traits came in handy, Mitchell also leaned a bit on his brief stint as a federal judge in the late 1970s.
    — Paul Kane, Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Inside her aides were hustling to ready her daily briefing pouch of news, messages of support, memes, and senatorial comings-and-goings.
    — Joseph Hincks / Manila, Time, 27 Oct. 2017
  • His victory bolstered his party's hopes of picking up two senatorial wins, and the money quickly followed.
    — Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner, 4 Jan. 2021
  • And perhaps some senatorial Republicans will come over to save themselves and the nation.
    — Froma Harrop, The Denver Post, 16 May 2017
  • Sanders backed Platner’s campaign, and the senatorial hopeful has raised millions of dollars for his campaign.
    — Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Two guides appear, likewise cleansed of earthly cares, and lead me into a broad antechamber that could be part of a very, very clean senatorial Roman bath.
    — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
  • In Washington, Brammer lived a double life—by day a senatorial staffer and by night a writer obsessed.
    — Jeffrey Frank, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2018
  • Senatus, Joly claims, had sent him five weapons through an emissary in 2014 to help his senatorial campaign.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 18 June 2024
  • In November, none of the senatorial candidates garnered 50% or more of the vote, which is required by state law.
    — Editors, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2020
  • The event will be held at the Union League, a spokesperson for Barletta’s senatorial campaign confirmed.
    — Wire Reports, Philly.com, 12 July 2018
  • Standards of senatorial comity still in place, the hearings were postponed at La Follette’s request.
    — Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Marquee races like the Ohio senatorial and gubernatorial races get top billing, but there were a handful of other notable results from last night as well.
    — Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 4 May 2022
  • Polls show gubernatorial and senatorial races in Nevada are among the tightest in the nation.
    — USA Today, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Trump’s abuse of the FVRA to avoid political and senatorial hurdles shows how that system can be abused.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 19 June 2019
  • The Republican senatorial candidates are on a tight time line to make their case to the GOP voters.
    — Jonece Starr Dunigan, AL.com, 7 June 2017
  • This is why, in the past six senatorial elections, Democrats received thirty-four million more votes over all and yet had an outright majority of senators only once.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • There have been several Republican senatorial candidates who have caused major headaches for the party.
    — Kimberly Ross, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • In 2004, the slot was given to then-senatorial candidate Barack Obama.
    — Haley Victory Smith, Washington Examiner, 16 Aug. 2020
  • In a separate complaint, Toensing alleged that Bernie Sanders' senatorial office pressured a bank to approve the loan.
    — Bloomberg.com, 26 June 2017
  • In a separate complaint, Toensing alleged that Bernie Sanders’ senatorial office pressured a bank to approve the loan.
    — Wilson Ring, The Seattle Times, 26 June 2017
  • Race has played a central role in the Wisconsin senatorial election, which is among the closest in the country and could determine the partisan balance of the Senate.
    — Annie Linskey, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Kasser’s replacement in the 36th senatorial District seat will be chosen at a special election in mid-August.
    — Daniela Altimari, courant.com, 4 July 2021

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