How to Use mayoralty in a Sentence

mayoralty

noun
Definition of mayoraltynext
  • He won the mayoralty in the last two elections.
  • During her mayoralty, the mayor greatly improved the city.
  • The storms arrived with the start of his mayoralty in December.
    — The New York Times, Orange County Register, 22 Apr. 2017
  • This is one of the few things anyone can say with any certainty about the Adams mayoralty.
    — Curbed, 22 Aug. 2022
  • After six-plus years of his mayoralty, New York is divided to the point of breaking.
    — Michael Toscano, National Review, 3 Sep. 2020
  • The state regulates e-coin, but the city may well have an interest in the sector under a Yang mayoralty, too.
    — New York Times, 6 May 2021
  • If the Paris mayoralty has its say, however, these tour buses may not exist for much longer.
    — Natasha Frost, Quartz, 4 July 2019
  • The mayor is the first to admit that his ability to address crime will define his mayoralty.
    — New York Times, 15 July 2022
  • Bloomberg spent at least $261 million in total on his three runs for the New York mayoralty, with each bid marking a record for campaign expenses in the city.
    — Max De Haldevang, Quartz, 24 Nov. 2019
  • And this aide stressed that as was the case at the end of his mayoralty, finding jobs for people who might need them is a top personal priority for Bloomberg.
    — Caitlin Conant, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Boykins’ removal, along with the fact that the recordings were never released, have been seen as a kind of original sin for Buttigieg’s mayoralty among some black residents.
    — Matt Pearce, latimes.com, 23 June 2019
  • Boykins' removal, along with the fact that the recordings were never released, have been seen as a kind of original sin for Buttigieg's mayoralty among some black residents.
    — Matt Pearce, Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2019
  • And even during his campaigns for the mayoralty, his debate record was proficient rather than stellar.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2020
  • Most of that was due to then-Mayor Kevin Faulconer, who reported more than $3 million in behested payments over the course of his mayoralty.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2023
  • Can those early years make a difference now, as James tries to lift levels of trust and understanding between races in the autumn of his mayoralty?
    — Bill Turque, kansascity, 23 Mar. 2018
  • At the time, the board was recommending up to 4.5 percent increases on one-year leases, a huge jump from the little-to-no hikes under Bill de Blasio’s mayoralty.
    — Curbed, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Simmons is the lone Republican in the race looking to use his law enforcement credentials to win the mayoralty for Republicans for the first time since the 1980s.
    — cleveland, 16 June 2021
  • Tuesday night Walsh plans to say the transition to a Janey mayoralty has already begun and will continue smoothly.
    — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2021
  • Her acting mayoralty has also garnered coverage in The New York Times.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The irony of course is that this is all unfolding in the waning days of a mayoralty that had committed itself above all to recognizing the unrecognized.
    — New York Times, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Free pre-K for all was the signature achievement of Bill de Blasio’s mayoralty and was instantly popular with parents across race and class lines.
    — Troy Closson, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2023
  • But the mayoralty is about choices: the priorities to pursue, the compromises to accept, the company to keep.
    — New York Times, 23 Oct. 2021
  • He’s been a member or president of several city commissions and long toyed with seeking the mayoralty.
    — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 June 2022
  • Created during the mayoralty of Michael Bloomberg, New York’s choice system frees eighth-graders who once would have attended their neighborhood high schools to apply anywhere in the city.
    — Preston Mitchum, The Root, 17 May 2018
  • These were mostly low-profile races for state legislatures, mayoralties, city councils, and school boards.
    — Jim Geraghty, National Review, 29 Jan. 2018
  • The first is justifying the existence of the mayoralty, for which there was little public enthusiasm.
    — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Others met the news of her impending mayoralty with indifferent shrugs.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2021
  • But the Miami mayoralty is a part-time and largely ceremonial job.
    — Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 14 June 2023
  • To win the mayoralty, Mr. Imamoglu required the informal support of a pro-Kurdish party, which typically receives around 10 percent of the national vote and whose supporters helped pull him over the line.
    — New York Times, 16 Oct. 2019
  • But now, four years after his mayoralty came to an end, Villaraigosa, 64, is no longer the scrappy upstart whose rise to power symbolized Latinos’ growing clout in California.
    — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2017

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