SENATE in a Sentence

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105 example sentences for SENATE, such as:
1. The senate adjourned for the summer.
2. We'll roll out the red carpet for the senator.
3. The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate.
4. The student senate voted to remove Fuller from office.
5. The senator retooled his style and his campaign manager.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of SENATE
senate
 n.  the upper house of the United States Congress
 n.  assembly possessing high legislative powers
Classic Sentence: (70 in 5 pages)
1  I have spoken above of the effects produced in Rome by the controversies between the commons and the senate.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI.
2  Sparta created for herself a government consisting of a king and a limited senate.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI.
3  So that to have created a king for life and a limited senate had been of little service to her.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI.
4  We must, consequently, put up with those dissensions which arise between commons and senate, looking on them as evils which cannot be escaped if we would arrive at the greatness of Rome.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI.
5  But this displeasing the senate, and the matter appearing to them grave and dangerous, they appointed a dictator to inquire into it, and to restrain the attacks of Manlius.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII.
6  The effect of this was to render easy any enterprise in which the senate or great men of Rome thought fit to engage.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI.
7  And thus, with the help of religion, the senate were able to overcome a difficulty which they never could have overcome without it.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII.
8  The institutions of the State consisted in the authority of the people, the senate, the tribunes, and the consuls; in the methods of choosing and appointing magistrates; and in the arrangements for passing laws.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII.
9  For when a dictator was appointed there still remained the tribunes, the consuls, and the senate, all of them invested with authority of which the dictator could not deprive them.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXV
10  So that the senate, the consuls, and the tribunes continuing to exist with undiminished authority were a check upon him and kept him in the right road.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXV
11  For as it found the power of its adversaries doubled, such a flame of hatred was kindled between commons and senate, that, regardless of all civil restraints, they resorted to arms and bloodshed.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXVII.
12  I say this because on other occasions this same senate had forbidden these nations to defend themselves; and a less prudent assembly might have thought it lowered their credit to withdraw that prohibition.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXVIII.
13  But the Roman senate always took a sound view of things, and always accepted the least hurtful course as the best.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXVIII.
14  For without the senate they could take no warlike measures, while by assembling the senate they seemed to put an end to their own authority.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XL.
15  In creating the decemvirate, therefore, both the senate and the people made grave mistakes.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XL.
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  The student senate voted to remove Fuller from office.
2  The senate committees have exclusive jurisdiction over the FBI.
3  The senate adjourned for the summer.
4  Brutus declaimed from the steps of the Roman senate building.
5  The senate is the opposition's counterweight to the new president.
6  The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate.
7  The senator retooled his style and his campaign manager.
8  The senator voiced concern at how minorities and immigrants are treated in California.
9  It is no easy job to run against John Glenn, Ohio's Democratic senator.
10  Journalists have been trying to discover if the senator really is as squeaky-clean as he claims to be.
11  The senator has not got a full slate of delegates in New York.
12  The senator has been widely tipped as a future president.
13  The senator worked hard, always talking to his constituents and hearing their problems.
14  The senator has been in the spotlight recently since the revelation of his tax frauds.
15  We'll roll out the red carpet for the senator.