Example sentences for: governor-general

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

  • This apparently delighted many Australian monarchists who have been countering the Republicans' "resident for president" slogan with the bizarre claim that Australia already has an Australian head of state in the person of the governor-general, the queen's representative there.

  • And how's this for exoticism: Jane was nearly as close as a sister to her cousin Eliza, who was probably the illegitimate daughter of Warren Hastings, the governor-general of India.

  • But he has since bowed out and said that, to ensure that the Games would be "a great unifying national occasion," he will invite the queen's representative in Australia, Governor-general Sir William Deane, to perform the opening ceremony.


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