LEGISLATURE in a Sentence

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21 example sentences for LEGISLATURE, such as:

1. It was the opening session of the legislature.
2. He is pushed into a meeting of the legislature.
3. She is the youngest woman to be elected to the national legislature.
4. But if the legislature has decided to do it, I'll stand by the legislature.
5. The Democrats had a majority in the legislature now, and that meant just one thing.

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 Meanings and Examples of LEGISLATURE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
legislature
 n.  part of government which makes laws
Classic Sentence:
1  She had little interest in the legislature, feeling that its doings could hardly affect her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
2  But if the legislature has decided to do it, I'll stand by the legislature.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
3  As Ashley had prophesied, there had been hell to pay since the legislature refused to ratify the amendment.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
4  She silently cursed the legislature for bringing this worse disaster upon them all.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
5  Scarlett laughed, and with some justice, for at that time, Bullock was safe in the governor's chair, twenty-seven negroes were in the legislature and thousands of the Democratic voters of Georgia were disfranchised.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
6  These negroes sat in the legislature where they spent most of their time eating goobers and easing their unaccustomed feet into and out of new shoes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
7  The governor was too strongly entrenched for any legislature to do anything to him, much less put him in jail.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
8  The Democrats had a majority in the legislature now, and that meant just one thing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
9  The negroes had frolicked through the legislature, grasping aliens had mismanaged the government, private individuals had enriched themselves from public funds.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
10  And that these two bodies made up the most august assembly in Europe; to whom, in conjunction with the prince, the whole legislature is committed.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VI.
11  He is pushed into a meeting of the legislature.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER III
12  They cannot be laughed away, nor always successfully stormed at, nor easily abolished by act of legislature.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VI
13  Them legislatures might just as well have hollered 'Hurray for Jeff Davis and the Southern Confederacy' for all the good it'll do them-- and us.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
14  Already many other Southern states had illiterate negroes in high public office and legislatures dominated by negroes and Carpetbaggers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
15  I saw coloured men who were members of the state legislatures, and county officers, who, in some cases, could not read or write, and whose morals were as weak as their education.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V.
Example Sentence:
1  It was also about restoring faith in a political system that limits and divides power between the executive, the legislature and the judiciary.
2  The official report of the proceedings and debates of a legislature in the Commonwealth of Nations, especially of the British or Canadian parliament.
3  It was the opening session of the legislature.
4  This political system limits and divides power between the executive, the legislature and the judiciary.
5  I can't imagine Arizona voters think their tax dollars are well served by a legislature that is less focused on their lives than in fringe right-wing radio conspiracy theories.
6  She is the youngest woman to be elected to the national legislature.