How to Use governorship in a Sentence

governorship

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  • The state has done well during her governorship.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Then the governorship changed hands, and the project was abandoned unfinished.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Campaigning on the issue, Democrats kept the governorship and won control of the state legislature for the first time in nearly 30 years.
    — Sarah Ewall-Wice, CBS News, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Michigan was one of four states where Democrats gained control of both legislative chambers and the governorship.
    — Kristine Parks, Fox News, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Zeldin retired from the House at the end of last year, but re-cemented his status with a better-than-expected run for the New York governorship.
    — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Democrats increased their power at the state level in the 2022 midterms, adding four new states where Democrats control both chambers of the legislature along with the governorship.
    — Patrick Gleason, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
  • One starts from the fact that in the majority of states today, one party has control over the state assembly, state Senate, and the governorship.
    — Nancy MacLean, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Republicans next year will hold the governorship in 26 states compared with 24 states for Democrats.
    — Jimmy Vielkind and Jon Kamp, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
  • That opened the door for Thanedar, who made an unsuccessful bid for the governorship four years ago and won a state House seat in Detroit in 2020 before mounting his run for Congress.
    — Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Republicans are trying to claim one of the last Democratic governorships in the South.
    — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Katie Hobbs, a Democrat who oversaw the 2020 election as secretary of state, is now challenging Ducey for the governorship.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 15 Apr. 2022
  • In 2019, Beshear used the attorney general's office as a springboard to the governorship.
    — CBS News, 16 May 2023
  • That left Democrats — who control the governorship and supermajorities in both the State Senate and Assembly for the first time in decades — more or less free to draw maps of their choosing.
    — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2022
  • If elected, Finchem would be first in the line of succession for the governorship because Arizona does not have a lieutenant governor.
    — Drew Myers, Em Steck and Andrew Kaczynski, CNN, 16 Feb. 2022
  • And in fact both Newsom’s budget and Petek’s analysis agree that the state faces deficits of roughly $30 billion a year at least for the remainder of his governorship.
    — Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2024
  • If, against such odds, a Republican wins the New York governorship for the first time in 20 years, Democrats will accuse the state party of complacency and blindness.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2022
  • While Kelly made no grand new announcements in the speech, the address underscored an emerging theme of her governorship.
    — Katie Bernard, Kansas City Star, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Barnes is first in the line of succession to the governorship and would serve as acting governor if Evers were unable to perform his duties.
    — Isaac Yu, Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2022
  • As his governorship begins to wind down, losing the backing of the public will affect his ability to get things done with the Legislature.
    — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023

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