Senator
['senətə] or ['sɛnətɚ]
Definition
(n.) A member of a senate.
(n.) A member of the king's council; a king's councilor.
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Examples
- Hence, indeed, his position as a senator was not a little useful to him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Not long ago a prominent senator remarked that he didn't know much about the country, because he had spent the last few months in Washington. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- When they parted, the senator put into his hand a ten-dollar bill. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I thought so, said the senator. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Why, this is an uncommon handsome un, he said to the senator. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Yet just because a man is in opposition to Senator Lodge there is no guarantee that he has freed himself from the routineer's habit of mind. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- After one boot was fairly on, the senator sat with the other in his hand, profoundly studying the figure of the carpet. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It will be remembered that Senator Roscoe Conkling, then very prominent, had a curl of hair on his forehead; and all the caricaturists developed it abnormally. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Thank you, my good friend, said the senator, I must be along, to take the night stage for Columbus. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The senator, in a few words, briefly explained Eliza's history. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Be that as it may, if our good senator was a political sinner, he was in a fair way to expiate it by his night's penance. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- During this vacation my father received a letter from the Honorable Thomas Morris, then United States Senator from Ohio. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A more recent one is what Senator La Follette calls The great issue before the American people to-day, . Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- From Senator Lodge, for example, we do not expect any new perception of popular need. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- For behind that balanced plan there grew up what Senator Beveridge has called so brilliantly the invisible government, an empire of natural groups about natural leaders. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Those senators and representatives are largely irrelevant; they are not concerned with realities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The senators from about 200 B.C. were excluded from trade. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Jugurtha bought over the Commissioners sent out to watch him, the Senators charged with their prosecution, and the generals in command against him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But the senators and politicians of Rome saw to it that such things never did exist as clean and wholesome realities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It existed before the expulsion of the kings, and in the time of the kings it was the king who nominated the senators. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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