senatorial
IPA: sɛnʌtˈɔriʌɫ
adjective
- Relating to a senator.
- Relating to a senate.
- (US) Entitled to elect a senator, or by senators.
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Examples of "senatorial" in Sentences
- Franken is a nice guy, but not what I'd call senatorial material.
- Then from that group, 4,000 will qualify for what are called senatorial or congressional nominations.
- dare i wonder what the fuss would be about if the short term senatorial nominations were made by republican governors?
- Yet, funny, but they produce a Governor Jesse Ventura and can't extricate themselves from the continuing farce with Al Franken, known as their senatorial race.
- Side note: If the tables were turned and McGavick had a larger war chest than Cantwell we'd be bombarded with cries of "Big Money!" and schemes to reduce/eliminate financial support in senatorial races too.
- By 1913, more than half of the states had already adopted mechanisms that effectively bound state legislators to the voters’ choice, and it’s hard to imagine their 21st century counterparts ignoring the people’s will in senatorial selection.
- The Herald article quotes McGavick attacking his party organization for publicizing Stefan's work on Dotzauer's divorce: "I immediately had our campaign call the senatorial committee and tell them to knock it off, and I've already received an apology from them," he said.
- He had for many years been a department subordinate at Washington; but, having accumulated some money, he had donned what was then known as senatorial costume -- namely, a blue swallow-tailed coat, and a buff vest, with brass buttons -- and coming to this little Michigan town he had established a Whig paper, which afterward became Republican.