Senate is an English word with synonyms like legislature or legislative. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Senate meaning
- In some bicameral legislative systems, the upper house or chamber.
- A group of experienced, respected, wise individuals serving as decision makers or advisors in a political system or in institutional governance, as in a university, and traditionally of advanced age.
- In Germany, the executive branch of government in the city states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg; the governments of cities that were part of the Hanseatic League; and the bench in a higher appellate court.
Synonyms of Senate
Senate vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Senate
- The main meaning on this page is: In some bicameral legislative systems, the upper house or chamber. | A group of experienced, respected, wise individuals serving as decision makers or advisors in a political system or in institutional governance, as in a university, and traditionally of advanced age. | In Germany, the executive branch of government in the city states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg; the governments of cities that were part of the Hanseatic League; and the bench in a higher appellate court.
- Useful related words include: legislature, legislative assembly, legislative, general assembly.
- Possible Dutch translations are: senaat.
- In the example corpus, senate often appears in combinations such as: the senate, senate president, senate majority.
Context around Senate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 32.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 14 start, 6 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Senate
- In this selection, "senate" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 32.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, 8th, last, oregon, president, majority and minority stand out and add context to how "senate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a democratic senate, and as senate president before, senate president, senate majority and senate floor. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "senate" sits close to words such as operations, particular and fund, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with senate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Senate bill must be considered by the Senate Appropriations Committee before the full Senate can debate it. (18 words)
He served in the New Jersey State Senate and as Senate President before winning election to the U.S. Senate in 1916. (22 words)
Republican state Senate candidate Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh and Democratic state Senate candidate Abigail Medina are in a tight race for the 23rd Senate District seat. (25 words)
In 2019, they failed to pass a bill that contained many elements of Senate Bill 337. This year, passing the bill also hinges on Senate Republicans ending a walkout that has stalled work in the Oregon Senate since early May. (40 words)
Thune has made more than two dozen campaign stops for GOP senate candidates, and aides say he has raised more than $31 million for Senate races this campaign cycle, including a $4 million transfer to the Senate Republican campaign operation. (40 words)
The Advisor to the President of the Senate, Olivier Mushimire told The New Times that at the strike of the clock at midnight on October 10, the Second Senate tenure came to an end but the Senate is still operational. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
During the last Senate, Mr Lawan, who has been in the Senate since 1999, was the Senate Leader, while Mr Bukola Saraki, who is not returning to the Senate, was the Senate President.
In 2019, they failed to pass a bill that contained many elements of Senate Bill 337. This year, passing the bill also hinges on Senate Republicans ending a walkout that has stalled work in the Oregon Senate since early May.
Senate President Pro Tempore Sen. Phil Baruth, D/P-Chittenden Central, left, confers with Secretary of the Senate John Bloomer as the Senate considers the budget bill at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Wednesday.
The idea collapsed Saturday when Sen. Ann Rest, the New Hope Democrat who chairs the Senate tax committee, told the House-Senate conference committee hammering out new tax law that the Senate would no longer support it.
He served in the New Jersey State Senate and as Senate President before winning election to the U.S. Senate in 1916.
Thune has made more than two dozen campaign stops for GOP senate candidates, and aides say he has raised more than $31 million for Senate races this campaign cycle, including a $4 million transfer to the Senate Republican campaign operation.
And as a likely tipping-point Senate race to determine control of the Senate, Biden may not need North Carolina to win the Electoral College, but he may need it if he wants a Democratic Senate.
Colorado’s Senate seat is one of the most important seats for the Democratic Party’s campaign to flip the Senate, and vital to the Republicans if they wish for the Senate to stay red.
Republican state Senate candidate Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh and Democratic state Senate candidate Abigail Medina are in a tight race for the 23rd Senate District seat.
Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka, R-Baxter talks with Senate Minority Leader Susan Kent, DFL-Woodbury on the Senate Floor before the start of a session in St. Paul, Minn, on Friday, June 12, 2020.
We see seven Republican-held chambers in the lean Republican category: the Florida Senate, the Iowa House, the Michigan House, the North Carolina Senate, the Pennsylvania Senate, the Pennsylvania House, and the Texas House.
Dems demand special Senate session to address gun violenceDemocrats are calling on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to reconvene the Senate for an emergency session addressing gun control.
President of the Senate, Dr. Ahmed Ibrahim Lawan yesterday gave reasons why the Senate will pass the $30 billion loan request from the executive after being rejected by the 8th Senate.
The Advisor to the President of the Senate, Olivier Mushimire told The New Times that at the strike of the clock at midnight on October 10, the Second Senate tenure came to an end but the Senate is still operational.
The All Progressive Congress (APC) has explained why it picked Ahmed Lawan, the current leader of the 8th Senate, as its candidate for Senate Presidency in the 9th Senate.
The Senate bill must be considered by the Senate Appropriations Committee before the full Senate can debate it.
At 1 p.m. on Sunday, the Senate came back into session, with McConnell, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, trading barbs – and assigning blame for the shutdown – on the Senate floor.
He will make the Senate and the country proud,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on the Senate floor right before the vote.
Our correspondent reports that the Senate; the Senate President; the Deputy Senate President; the Clerk of the National Assembly; Senator Godswill Akpabio and the Independent National Electoral Commission were mentioned as defendants in the suit.
Prior to Friday’s floor vote in the Senate, the legislation’s two primary sponsors, Senate Majority Leader Sharon Nelson, D-Maury Island, and Senate Minority Leader Mark Schoesler, R-Ritzville, framed the legislation as boosting government transparency.
Phrases with senate
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with senate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: