Example sentences for: mayor

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

  • O’Connell was made lord mayor of Dublin in 1841, but failed in his bid to have the Act of Union repealed and an Irish parliament re-established.

  • In a provision of the recently passed budget bill, Congress used its constitutional authority to strip power from the mayor and City Council, and to vest it in the financial control board that was set up in 1995.

  • This may be fertile ground, and taps a background of accusations (against the incumbent mayor's father, against the circuit clerk) and intrigue (about a mysterious murder, and about the mayor himself being barred for life from federal projects after allegedly defaulting on an $8 million HUD loan).

  • I was disappointed that there was no entry for Wilson Goode, the first black mayor of Philadelphia, or for Dick Allen, the first black superstar baseball player for the Phillies, who was traded to St. Louis in the deal that was to bring Curt Flood to Philadelphia, the deal that Flood used as a pretext for challenging the reserve clause.

  • In an editorial Monday, the Guardian urged Bill Clinton to stand by Hillary during a New York Senate campaign that would see "the dirty laundry of the past eight years recycled," new tensions in the Democratic camp, and "a hot reception, no punches pulled" from New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.


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