How to Use statehouse in a Sentence

statehouse

noun
Definition of statehousenext
Synonyms for statehousenext
  • Democrats in the Texas statehouse pushed back against the bill.
    — Lauren Lantry, ABC News, 19 June 2021
  • Outside the statehouse, the line to enter snaked around the building.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 25 July 2022
  • Prior to closing for Covid in spring 2020, the statehouse was one of the most open in the nation.
    — Julia Shumway, oregonlive, 22 Jan. 2022
  • In the hectic footage, smoke billows from the statehouse.
    — Arthur Holland Michel, WIRED, 24 July 2024
  • The design of the flag flying over the statehouse might not seem like the kind of thing that would stir deep passions.
    — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2023
  • And the open carry of firearms on statehouse grounds was legal.
    — Javonte Anderson, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2021
  • For me, a 25-year-old statehouse reporter, this is the most exciting hour of the year.
    — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The Ohio statehouse has grown only more lopsided in the past decade.
    — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2022
  • The effort was vital to stocking the party’s bench and breaking the GOP’s grip on the statehouse.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Troopers swept the statehouse with guns drawn, clearing the building door by door.
    — Erin Cox, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024
  • No amendment to do so has been introduced yet in the statehouse.
    — Scott Bauer and Nicholas Riccardi, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Dec. 2021
  • The House met in the Government Center South building next to the statehouse, where seats were kept six feet apart.
    — Alexandra Kukulka, chicagotribune.com, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Sports betting is now legal in some form in 22 states, but not Ohio, where the effort to get it through the statehouse has stalled.
    — cleveland, 20 Nov. 2020
  • The Florida bill bounced back and forth in the statehouse in the waning days of the legislative session.
    — Alexa Corse, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
  • But its reach expands beyond the city to politicians in the Illinois statehouse.
    — Matt Paprocki, National Review, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Back in April, the statehouse in Phoenix was sent into a tizzy when the high court soberly and correctly ruled that ...
    — Jon Gabriel, National Review, 30 May 2024
  • Cook has been absent from the statehouse this week due to a death in the family, and the bill was withheld from the House floor on Tuesday.
    — Casey Smith, chicagotribune.com, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Cannon was put in handcuffs and forcibly removed from the statehouse.
    — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The statehouse in Frankfort was one of several around the nation to receive such a threat.
    — Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Youngkin has two missions, winning the statehouse and the White House, which are intertwined.
    — Maeve Reston, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The move would have taken power away from the Democrats, who controlled the statehouse and the governor’s office.
    — Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Cars heading to the statehouse that day lined Saginaw Street.
    — John Tozzi, Bloomberg.com, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Deshotel is a wanted man – in addition to many other Democrats from the Texas statehouse.
    — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 15 July 2021
  • In Texas, the leader of the senate is the lieutenant governor, making the job one of the most powerful in any U.S. statehouse.
    — Jim Vertuno and Paul J. Weber, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
  • Dozens of bills aimed at restricting gay or transgender rights have emerged in the statehouse.
    — Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Feb. 2024
  • From coast to coast, housing has emerged as perhaps the biggest statehouse issue this year.
    — David W. Chen, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The bill has passed through both chambers of the statehouse and heads to Gov. Andy Beshear, who has 10 days to either sign or veto the legislation.
    — Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The state would lose that too under an 800-page climate bill Democrats in Springfield are contriving to jam through the statehouse.
    — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 16 July 2021
  • Rogers lost his seat by 27 percentage points, and more than two dozen statehouse candidates backed by the two billionaires prevailed this spring.
    — Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Don't forget: There are also some tried and tested fair traditions, like replicas of each New England state's original statehouse and several horse shows.
    — Mike Deehan, Axios, 20 Sep. 2024

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