Example sentences for: staten

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

  • Democrat Eric Vitaliano, who has been a state-assembly member for many years, took credit for reducing the cost for Staten Island residents, who get discounts of up to 70 percent on the $7 round-trip toll (and who can ride to Manhattan at no charge on the Staten Island Ferry).

  • Staten Island , New York was named after the legislative governing body of the Netherlands, the Staten-General , perhaps because a meeting was held there in 1776 in which American and British representatives tried unsuccessfully to negotiate a peaceful end to the American Revolution.

  • 6. "We already qualified Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and Staten Island in the first day," says O'Brien hopefully.

  • In the only congressional race of this election, the contest for Susan Molinari's seat on Staten Island was fought in part over the cost of driving across the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, which connects Staten Island to Brooklyn and thence to the rest of the world.

  • In New Jersey and Staten Island, candidates from the two major parties debated the relative merits of alternative free-lunch options.


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