GOVERNOR in a Sentence
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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.
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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Meanings and Examples of GOVERNOR
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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.
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.
3 'I've come to you for six whole weeks, governor,' Bazarov said to him.
4 The more debris there is the more it will show the governor's activity.
5 Another governor, of course, would look out for his own advantage.
6 Such a governor there never was yet in the world, your Worship.
7 I beseech your aid against the governor.
8 But his parents gave the governor a rich present, so he fastened on the son of the tradeswoman, Panteleyeva.
9 Now I am staying at the governor's home.
10 See what a fool the governor was made of.
11 But Smolensk was burned by its own inhabitants-who had been misled by their governor.
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.
13 He mentally appointed a governor, one who would win the hearts of the people.
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.
15 From the commander of the militia he drove to the governor.
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.