How to Use bicameral in a Sentence

bicameral

adjective

• So far, only about two-thirds of the 275 seats in the nation’s bicameral parliament have been filled.
  — Mohammed Omar Ahmed, Bloomberg.com, 25 Feb. 2022
• The bipartisan and bicameral push for the funding takes place as Congress and the White House rush to fund parts of the government ahead of funding deadlines.
  — Willie James Inman, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2024
• The Budget Control Act mandated caps in the event that a special bicameral group couldn’t come up with a grand bargain to curb the national debt.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2018
• This is the first bicameral legislation aimed at doing so, according to a spokesman for Lee.
  — Eugene Scott, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2017
• The legislation was approved by the lower house of the bicameral parliament of the Netherlands on Tuesday.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2022
• If neither side budges, the result could be the first bicameral veto override during Mr. Cuomo’s three terms in office.
  — Jimmy Vielkind, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2021
• Those candidates will be put to a vote, with the whole 750-seat bicameral legislature voting.
  — Heather Chen, CNN, 13 May 2023
• In the hallways of the bicameral National Congress, a building known for the iconic half spheres on its roof, more glass from a series of shattered mirrored walls crunched underfoot.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2023
• To thank all the American people, as well as the Congress for their bicameral and bipartisan support.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 25 Apr. 2022
• In the aftermath of the attacks, Senate Republicans effectively killed any hopes of a bicameral probe and shut-down talk of work on a Senate query.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 7 Feb. 2022
• Five members of the minority agreed to vote in favor of the timing clause in exchange for the creation of a bicameral, nonpartisan working group.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2021
• His bill, which has bicameral support and bipartisan backing in the House, is awaiting hearings.
  — Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 21 Dec. 2022
• The bipartisan and bicameral group with Democrats at the helm was supposed to meet virtually every Tuesday, but that hasn’t been happening.
  — Greg Bishop, Washington Examiner, 8 Sep. 2020
• The Washington Post reported last week that a bill to ban the practice among lawmakers, which has been pushed by a bipartisan, bicameral group of legislators, may get a House vote this month.
  — Emily Anderson Stern, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Sep. 2022
• Worse, the legislature is now checked by both the supermajority burden and the bicameral check and balance the Framers invented.
  — Thomas Geoghegan, The New Republic, 14 June 2021
• Yet, our whole government was set up with three co-equal branches of government and a bicamerallegislature, to boot.
  — CBS News, 23 Oct. 2019
• The final bicameral version of the defense authorization will not be complete until later this year.
  — Star Tribune, 24 July 2021
• Late last week, the members sent a letter to key Democratic committee chairs in the Illinois House and Senate asking them to schedule a bicameral public hearing on the facility.
  — Molly Parker, ProPublica, 23 Feb. 2023
• One measure, introduced in 2018 in Mexico’s bicameral legislature, passed last year in one chamber and is now sitting in the other.
  — Leila Miller, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023
• In a potential sign of things to come, the bicameral working group in charge of negotiating a compromise on the dividend has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday morning.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2019
• The reality is that whoever controls the government controls the Knesset, which is a single house, not bicameral.
  — Jo-Ann Mort, The New Republic, 19 July 2023
• But Congress is a bicameral legislature, and the House deserves an opportunity to improve on the Senate’s work.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2018
• France’s government follows a bicameral system, in which the more-powerful lower house (the National Assembly) and the less-powerful upper house (the Senate) don’t share equal weight.
  — Annabelle Timsit, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2017
• The starting point was a report written by a bipartisan and bicameral fiscal policy working group in 2021.
  — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Feb. 2023
• Lawmakers are taking bicameral action against the film.
  — Sydney Shea, Washington Examiner, 11 Sep. 2020
• Legislators have created a bicameral, nonpartisan working group ordered to come up with a plan that can be discussed in the special session later this year.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2021
• This election, in which all 140 seats in the bicameral General Assembly will be contested, may decide whether Virginia remains a haven for families and taxpayers or goes the route of failing states like Illinois.
  — John Tillman, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2023
• And states with a bicameral legislature can have some mixture of these theories, such as one population base for its lower house and another for its upper chamber.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 9 July 2019
• Tocqueville wanted a bicameral legislature on the American model, but proponents of a single chamber won the day.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 28 Dec. 2023
• Note: In bicameral governments, only lower house data are shown.
  — Kennedy Elliott, National Geographic, 15 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 30 Aug 2024