Example sentences for: first-term

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

  • Also, the magazine profiles first-term Rep.

  • I would venture that none thinks Sidney Blumenthal is more effective as a press tactician than his first-term counterpart, David Gergen.

  • Ira Magaziner is best known as the chief structural engineer of the Clinton administration's biggest boo-boo, its first-term attempt to pass comprehensive health-care reform.

  • At the height of his Hamlet act over whether to vote for the balanced-budget amendment, Robert Torricelli, the first-term Democratic senator from New Jersey, gave an interview to the New York Times . "I understand this will be one of the most important votes I ever cast," he told the paper.

  • Several pundits (Liasson; Mark Shields, NewsHour ; Tony Blankley, CNN's Late Edition ) compared the treaty's political impact to that of the Clinton administration's first-term health-care initiative: Voters endorse big-think issues like these in principle, but rebel after they get wind of the specifics.


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