How to Use house seat in a Sentence
house seat
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Back-of-the-house seats in the last row are available for as little as $62.
—Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Jan. 2018
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In West Virginia not a single woman ran for a house seat in 2016.
—Dan Merica and Annie Grayer, CNN, 14 May 2018
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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
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Montana's actually adding a house seat for the first time in three decades.
—ABC News, 5 June 2022
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Antone could not run again for his state house seat because of term limits.
—Leslie Postal, orlandosentinel.com, 25 Aug. 2020
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Gregoire lost badly in the August primary for the house seat.
—Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2020
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In that election, the country’s ruling party won every lower house seat.
—Jon Emont, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2021
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Professional friend Jimmy Kimmel didn't get a house seat until May of this year.
—Esquire, 11 July 2016
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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
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Palmer’s party is fielding candidates in every upper and lower house seat.
—Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 20 May 2022
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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
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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
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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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