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Example sentences for "being elected"

  • As candidate for the Legislature I won out, being elected; as the chosen elector on the Fillmore ticket, I went down in the party's defeat.

  • In ancient days a dramatist seems to have had no chance of being elected to the Academy unless he had produced tragedies.

  • In the same year he was made queen’s counsel as well as being elected president of the committee in charge of the bar library, which office he continuously and honorably filled for thirty years.

  • He had the honor of being elected an associate member of the Société Française d’Hygiène of Paris.

  • Mr. Mayrand’s public service has also included prompt and faithful discharge of the duties of alderman, he being elected to that position from the Delorimier ward and his efficiency was rewarded by reelection in April, 1914.

  • I saw that the latter was most heartily sick of being made the tool of the Whig faction, without any chance of being elected.

  • Lord Buckhurst being elected at Whitehall, and coming to Court wholly ignorant of the Affair, and after the Sovereign was risen, (yet leaving the Chapter sitting) her Lieutenant invested him both with the Garter and George.

  • The Duke of Monmouth being elected at a Chapter held in the withdrawing Room at White-Hall, the 28th of March, Anno 15 Charles II.

  • And lastly, we find Alphonsus King of Sicily and Jerusalem, being elected by Henry VII.

  • In 1861, Mr. Rice, being elected to the Board of Education, was appointed President of the Board, and during his term of office rendered essential service in promoting the educational interests of the city.

  • In the Spring of the following year he made his first success in political life, being elected to the City Council.

  • This embarrassment, however, did not extend to the qualifications which it might be thought necessary to establish for the right of being elected to office under the general government.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being able; being alarmed; being allowed; being appointed; being boiled; being careful; being concerned; being convinced; being equivalent; being exposed; being followed; being found; being minded; being one; being present; being read; being ready; being reduced; being related; being relieved; being resolved; being sent; being slain; being unwilling; being washed; reasonable being