How to Use senate in a Sentence
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Its senate’s Democrats are just short of that fraction, with 60 percent of the seats.
—Kyle Sammin, National Review, 28 June 2019
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The GOP bills that could increase the presence of guns in schools are unlikely to pass the state senate.
—Sanya Mansoor, Time, 23 Aug. 2023
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The same day the school's academic senate called on Nikias to resign.
—NBC News, 26 May 2018
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In 49 states, this process takes place separately in the state senate and state house.
—Michael McCann, SI.com, 14 May 2018
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However, the bill failed to pass in the senate in September last year.
—Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 31 Mar. 2020
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This all feels like a philosopher king increasing his grip on the U.S. senate.
—Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Jan. 2022
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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
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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
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He was impeached but avoided removal by one vote in the senate.
—Matthew Glenesk, Indianapolis Star, 31 Dec. 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A lot depends on the outcome of the election, especially in the U.S. senate.
—Gernot Wagner, Bloomberg.com, 23 Oct. 2020
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Virginia also has one such bill that was moved to the state senate on February 5.
—Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Feb. 2020
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In the senate one Democrat voted no and five either did not vote or voted present.
—Jonathon Berlin, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2019
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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
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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
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Woman running for senate in the 2018 midterm elections.
—Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 1 Oct. 2018
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The answer could be SB 346, a bill making its way through Florida's state senate.
—Tyler Kendall, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2019
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New website just launched to help a potential senate run.
—Tal Kopan, SFChronicle.com, 17 Sep. 2019
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McMorrow has raised more than $2 million to help Democrats flip the Michigan senate.
—Time, 3 Oct. 2022
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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
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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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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
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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
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While at the university, Kahn was chairman of the EE department and held a seat on the faculty senate.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 June 2020
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The characters all reunited to help Payton get back on his feet and campaign for New York state senate.
—Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 27 Sep. 2019
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And Wexton, who has already won a state senate seat in the district, is approaching the primary as the front-runner.
—Dan Merica, CNN, 12 June 2018
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Student and faculty senates had insisted on such public forums.
—WSJ, 6 Dec. 2023
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