How to Use legislator in a Sentence

legislator

noun
  • Write to your state legislator.
  • But legislators have stepped in to mount a hearty defense of the lemonade stand.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
  • This is what makes the school-choice hypocrisy of some state legislators so troubling.
    — Corey Deangelis, National Review, 1 Apr. 2023
  • But the legislator who Parker said stopped the bill last year didn’t win re-election.
    — Daniel Walters, Idaho Statesman, 15 Feb. 2024
  • At that time, just over 5% of legislators were moms of minor kids.
    — Thomas Wheatley, Axios, 30 Oct. 2024
  • There was too much at stake, the soft-spoken legislator tells TIME.
    — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 22 Nov. 2022
  • While governors have most of the power, state legislators also have a say in the process.
    — Gibbs Knotts, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2023
  • However their pleas to pass a bill to raise the stamp price have been ignored by legislators.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 6 May 2023
  • Along the way, the land trust had its plans stymied by an anonymous state legislator who blocked a key grant needed to complete the group's purchase of the land.
    — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 May 2022
  • The legislators cited protests of the Israel-Gaza war as reason for the new measure.
    — Rebecca Schneid, TIME, 14 Aug. 2024
  • For the first time ever in the history of Virginia, a Black legislator will be the next speaker for the House of Delegates.
    — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Flashback: In 2022, three state legislators resigned due to the job's high demand and low pay.
    — Meira Gebel, Axios, 23 Oct. 2024
  • That was long ago — 59 years — when Brown first showed up in the state Assembly chamber to be sworn in as a freshman legislator.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The interesting aspect of this is that the legislator is looking for a human to pick up the phone.
    — Per Ottosson, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
  • At the end of the semester, her teacher urged her to contact legislators.
    — Fortesa Latifi, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2023
  • State legislators and the Alexandria City Council still must approve the deal.
    — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Derrick Evans was a West Virginia legislator who’d been sent to jail for his own role in the Capitol riot.
    — Thomas Lake, CNN, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Over decades, a small group of legislators led by a prominent Democrat pushed the gun lobby to help transform the law, the courts and views on the Second Amendment.
    — Mike McIntire, New York Times, 30 July 2023
  • Moore also evoked the stance of Secretary of State Shirley Weber, a former legislator who wrote the bill to create the task force.
    — Dustin Gardiner, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2022
  • The legislator has stressed that the officers shouldn’t have been training in middle of the day but, instead, in the early morning.
    — Arkansas Online, 28 Aug. 2022
  • In his heyday, Newton ranked among the most colorful state legislators as he was known for his flashy suits and quotable quotes.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Seat 31: Zooey Zephyr Zephyr is a trans activist and Montana state legislator.
    — Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Jan. 2025
  • And in April, Montana legislators approved a bill to block TikTok in the state, a first-of-its-kind prohibition.
    — Kalley Huang, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • Reeb went on to win her seat as a state legislator during the November election.
    — Melissa Montoya, Peoplemag, 14 Mar. 2023
  • How does that affect the legislators and their constituents in a positive way?
    — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
  • Lowe said his bill has gotten positive feedback from legislators on both sides of the aisle.
    — Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The suspensions came as legislators were due to debate a contentious crime bill.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Back in May 1994, Cafero was still learning the system as a freshman legislator who had been elected in the same year as Diamantis.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 24 Apr. 2022
  • An Arizona bill that would remove additives from school lunches passed the House, while a Texas bill has legislators debating whether to remove artificial food dyes from food served in schools.
    — Ashley J. Dimella Fox News, Fox News, 10 Mar. 2025
  • What bills are Orange County’s legislators pushing this year?
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 10 Mar. 2025

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