GOVERNOR in a Sentence

Learn GOVERNOR from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
142 example sentences for GOVERNOR, such as:
1. I beseech your aid against the governor.
2. Now I am staying at the governor's home.
3. The agency is answerable to the governor.
4. See what a fool the governor was made of.
5. The governor ran on the Democratic ticket.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of GOVERNOR
governor
 n.  the head of a state government
 n.  a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel)
Classic Sentence: (106 in 8 pages)
1  Like the governor, whom he had come down to pass judgment upon, he was reckoned a progressive; and though he was already a bigwig, he was not like the majority of bigwigs.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  Among other things, he informed them that the governor had ordered his secretaries on special commissions to wear spurs, in case he might send them off anywhere for greater speed on horseback.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
3  'I've come to you for six whole weeks, governor,' Bazarov said to him.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
4  The more debris there is the more it will show the governor's activity.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
5  Another governor, of course, would look out for his own advantage.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
6  Such a governor there never was yet in the world, your Worship.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV
7  I beseech your aid against the governor.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV
8  But his parents gave the governor a rich present, so he fastened on the son of the tradeswoman, Panteleyeva.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV
9  Now I am staying at the governor's home.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
10  See what a fool the governor was made of.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
11  But Smolensk was burned by its own inhabitants-who had been misled by their governor.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I
12  The prince again went to his bureau, glanced into it, fingered his papers, closed the bureau again, and sat down at the table to write to the governor.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III
13  He mentally appointed a governor, one who would win the hearts of the people.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XIX
14  More than ten thousand people were still in Moscow on the first and second of September, and except for a mob in the governor's courtyard, assembled there at his bidding, nothing happened.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXIV
15  From the commander of the militia he drove to the governor.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1  The governor refused to accept Cox's resignation.
2  The agency is answerable to the governor.
3  They are hoping that she will announce for governor.
4  The governor found himself at the center of a political storm.
5  The governor announced a new plan to reduce crime.
6  The governor ran on the Democratic ticket.
7  She was appointed as acting governor until an election could be held.
8  The governor was an expert at fencing with reporters.
9  The man immediately responsible for this misery is the province's governor.
10  He defeated the incumbent governor by a large plurality.
11  The governor was usually circumspect when dealing with the media.
12  Mr Brown did not want to run for governor of the state last year.
13  The document carried the seal of the governor's office.
14  She served as a parent governor at her children's school.
15  Duke was soundly defeated in this month's Louisiana governor's race.