Sentence examples for mate to be from inspiring English sources

By 1984 it was not enough for the running mate to be squeaky clean.

Kaine, though, was probably not chosen as Clinton's running mate to be a preacher.

Steven Adler GNR's original drummer was the first band mate to be sacked by Rose because of ongoing drug addictions.

Still, Dr. Reiner also said he understood how politically awkward it was for Mr. Cheney, Gov. George W. Bush's running mate, to be in a hospital at that moment.

Just as Senator John McCain appears poised to give George Dubbya and the Republican establishment the fright of their lives, Klein has reportedly delivered a new political novel, The Running Mate, to be published under his own name this time, in which a certain Senator Charlie Martin, a popular, maverick legislator takes on an unscrupulous political opponent, a prince of the dark arts of 'spin'.

We're talking about the physical slime that glides off of escargot the stuff snails sometimes use to find a mate, to be exact.

Why now rather than any of those times last winter when he could easily have got her up to his room and arranged for his room-mate to be out?

By the summer of 1936 his sheen of invincibility had faded somewhat – he was beaten by Eulace Peacock over 100 yards in warm-ups for the Games only for his US team-mate to be ruled out with a hamstring injury.

Having to ask mates to be character witnesses at your trial in the Old Bailey… Certainly it made me step back.

Geronimo Madrid responds: I, too, thought it was inconsiderate of my truck mates to be drunk and loud.

Any notion that it was not going to be Caley Thistle's day ended when Raven lashed a 40-yard shot into the net only for a team-mate to be ruled offside.