How to Use governorship in a Sentence

governorship

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  • The state has done well during her governorship.
  • For the first time since 1984, Democrats won the governorship, the Senate, and the House.
    — Glamour, 9 July 2024
  • Once John stepped in front of him for the governorship, that was it.
    — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Green won the governorship with nearly two-thirds of the vote.
    — Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Schwarzenegger won the governorship in the 2003 recall of Gov. Gray Davis.
    — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2023
  • After trailing in the polls in 2018, DeWine staged a comeback to win the governorship.
    — Arkansas Online, 15 May 2021
  • The win will give Democrats control of the legislature and governorship for the first time in 26 years.
    — NBC News, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Even Democrats had been worried about a blowout: the loss of a governorship, a senator and three House Democrats.
    — Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Winning the governorship by a 57 to 42 percent margin, Mr. du Pont got off to a bad start.
    — New York Times, 9 May 2021
  • Democrats lost the Virginia governorship last week and nearly did the same in New Jersey.
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Then the governorship changed hands, and the project was abandoned unfinished.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Graham was first elected to the governorship in 1978 and held office for eight years.
    — Alexandra Glorioso, Miami Herald, 19 Apr. 2024
  • But the fight over the Missouri governorship is looking like a real race.
    — Mica Soellner, Washington Examiner, 7 Sep. 2020
  • Polis spent five terms in the House before winning the governorship in 2018.
    — Arden Farhi, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The crucial swing state will hold its primary on May 17, with key races for a U.S. Senate seat and the governorship.
    — New York Times, 16 May 2022
  • Dems will continue to hold the governorship and the Senate.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 2 Dec. 2024
  • In 2018, Republicans won the governorship by just four-tenths of a point and a U.S. Senate seat by two-tenths.
    — George Will, Twin Cities, 24 Oct. 2019
  • The office is next in line for the governorship, should the governor leave office for any reason.
    — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 22 Sep. 2022
  • To take the governorship, Sanders will first have to win the Republican primary, and that may not be easy.
    — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2021
  • She was first elected to the lieutenant governorship in 2018.
    — Julia Reinstein, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2024
  • It’s the only state of those six in which Democrats control both chambers of the Legislature and the governorship.
    — oregonlive, 29 Sep. 2021
  • His challengers for the governorship took note of the interview.
    — Hannah Knowles and Lateshia Beachum, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Jan. 2022
  • But if no Democrat runs and Newsom loses, the party will have fumbled away the governorship of the biggest state in the country.
    — Tal Kopan, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2021
  • In 2018, DeWine won the governorship by three percentage points.
    — Dana Blanton, Fox News, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The secretary of state is also first in line to the governorship, since Wyoming does not have a lieutenant governor.
    — Bytal Axelrod, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The party is in control of both the governorship and legislature in 22 states, compared to 14 for Democrats.
    — Robert Barnes, The Denver Post, 16 June 2019
  • After a decade in the private sector, Kasich won the Ohio governorship in 2010, and a second term four years later.
    — David Mark, Washington Examiner, 17 Aug. 2020
  • Democrats control the state legislature and the governorship in New York.
    — Melissa Holzberg Depalo, CNN, 31 Mar. 2022
  • No Democrat has won the governorship since Mr. Chiles secured re-election in 1994.
    — Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2022
  • The party holds both Senate seats, the governorship, and supermajorities in the state House of Representatives and the state Senate.
    — Jeremiah Poff, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 10 Dec. 2024

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