How to Use house seat in a Sentence

house seat

noun
  • Back-of-the-house seats in the last row are available for as little as $62.
    Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Jan. 2018
  • In West Virginia not a single woman ran for a house seat in 2016.
    Dan Merica and Annie Grayer, CNN, 14 May 2018
  • Schroder, who stepped down from the 77th District house seat to run his statewide campaign, will face Derrick Edwards in the Nov. 18 runoff.
    Kim Chatelain, NOLA.com, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Montana's actually adding a house seat for the first time in three decades.
    ABC News, 5 June 2022
  • Antone could not run again for his state house seat because of term limits.
    Leslie Postal, orlandosentinel.com, 25 Aug. 2020
  • Gregoire lost badly in the August primary for the house seat.
    Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2020
  • In that election, the country’s ruling party won every lower house seat.
    Jon Emont, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Professional friend Jimmy Kimmel didn't get a house seat until May of this year.
    Esquire, 11 July 2016
  • The Happy Valley real estate broker in 2013 put up a website critical of Shemia Fagan, the woman who took his house seat.
    oregonlive, 28 Oct. 2020
  • Palmer’s party is fielding candidates in every upper and lower house seat.
    Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 20 May 2022
  • Edmondson, a 25-year resident of Southlake, had an unsuccessful bid for state house seat District 98 last fall.
    Anna Caplan, Dallas News, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Justin Timberlake was in town for the show — along with wife Jessica Biel — who both took golden house seats before sipping bubbles at an exclusive after party.
    Alice Tate, Marie Claire, 20 Feb. 2013
  • There were a dozen contested Republican primaries for open Ohio house seats that were effectively expensive proxy battles between pro-Householder and pro-Smith candidates.
    Seth A. Richardson & Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland.com, 11 May 2018

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