How to Use senatorial in a Sentence

senatorial

adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The committee's haul aligns with the support senatorial candidates have amassed in the states.
    Katie Ross Dominick, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2019
  • As anyone who followed the 2009 debate over the Affordable Care Act knows all too well, these kind of senatorial gangs can waste a tremendous amount of time.
    Brian Beutler, New Republic, 26 June 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In Washington, Brammer lived a double life—by day a senatorial staffer and by night a writer obsessed.
    Jeffrey Frank, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2018
  • 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
  • In 2004, the slot was given to then-senatorial candidate Barack Obama.
    Haley Victory Smith, Washington Examiner, 16 Aug. 2020
  • The two declared a temporary truce as Trump endorsed Romney for his 2018 senatorial bid.
    Caroline S. Engelmayer, latimes.com, 4 June 2019
  • If party leaders don’t put one or all of these bills on the floor for votes, Hawley, the Republican senator, vows to use all the instruments in his senatorial toolkit to force the issue in 2024.
    Matt Laslo, WIRED, 22 Dec. 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
  • And perhaps some senatorial Republicans will come over to save themselves and the nation.
    Froma Harrop, The Denver Post, 16 May 2017
  • The solo show takes place on the eve of the 1976 Democratic senatorial primary, as Abzug tells tales of her life as a lawyer and congresswoman in the early days of women’s liberation.
    Mia J. Merrill, sun-sentinel.com, 20 Nov. 2019
  • Standards of senatorial comity still in place, the hearings were postponed at La Follette’s request.
    Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Some suspects are accused of using more than $5,000 worth of municipal funds to in part pay other suspects to work on Nazario's senatorial campaign.
    CBS News, 7 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • In a separate complaint, Toensing alleged that Bernie Sanders' senatorial office pressured a bank to approve the loan.
    Bloomberg.com, 26 June 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
  • The months since have been an exercise in senatorial rebranding.
    Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Bernie Sanders, 78, the field's front-runner to become the Democratic standard-bearer is even making a play for Minnesota and is in striking distance of denying his senatorial colleague a win in her home state next week.
    Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 1 Mar. 2020
  • Polls show gubernatorial and senatorial races in Nevada are among the tightest in the nation.
    USA Today, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Manchin is almost as good at senatorial theatrics as Jimmy Stewart.
    Marie Sapirie, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024

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