Example sentences for: congressman

How can you use “congressman” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Puffy, bureaucratic verbiage if often called gobbledygook, a word credited to Texas congressman Maury Maverick, who compared the tortuous (and torturous) prose of Washington bureaucrats to the senseless gobbling of turkeys.

  • Al Kamen's WP column looks into a complaint that California congressman Bill Thomas was recently spotted driving like a jerk on Capitol Hill.

  • In addition, the Times quotes one congressman saying there are six Republican members besides himself who have flatly decided not to vote for Gingrich--no small matter given the GOP's reduced edge of 12 seats.

  • The former congressman and ex-husband of conservative glamour-puss Arianna Huffington says he never liked politics and is glad he lost his Senate race (on which he dropped $30 million).

  • And the LAT notes how media-infested the whole process has become, noting that the day started with members' appearances on the morning talk shows, and that at one point during committee debate, one congressman told another, he'd respond to him later on--when the two were on "Crossfire."


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