Examples of statehouse in a Sentence
a field trip to the statehouse to see the legislature in session
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Oman noted that the last time Iowa saw both an open Senate and governor’s race in the same year was 1968, when Democrat Harold Hughes moved from the statehouse to the Senate, and Republican Robert Ray succeeded him as governor.
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Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 3 Sep. 2025
With a benevolent billionaire in the governor’s office, a Democratic supermajority in the statehouse and a willing partner in City Hall, there has never been a better opportunity to right the past wrongs of racial discrimination.
—Jackson Potter, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
In most states where Democrats are in control of the statehouse and governor's mansion, there are legal and constitutional barriers to revisiting their maps in the middle of the decade as a result of previous efforts to install independent commissions and, in some cases, prior state court rulings.
—Benjamin Siegel, ABC News, 21 Aug. 2025
Republican legislators earlier this week asked the state’s Supreme Court to intervene and hit the brakes on redistricting efforts underway in the statehouse.
—Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 21 Aug. 2025
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Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 3 Sep. 2025
With a benevolent billionaire in the governor’s office, a Democratic supermajority in the statehouse and a willing partner in City Hall, there has never been a better opportunity to right the past wrongs of racial discrimination.
—Jackson Potter, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
In most states where Democrats are in control of the statehouse and governor's mansion, there are legal and constitutional barriers to revisiting their maps in the middle of the decade as a result of previous efforts to install independent commissions and, in some cases, prior state court rulings.
—Benjamin Siegel, ABC News, 21 Aug. 2025
Republican legislators earlier this week asked the state’s Supreme Court to intervene and hit the brakes on redistricting efforts underway in the statehouse.
—Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 21 Aug. 2025
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“Statehouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/statehouse. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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statehouse
noun
state·house
ˈstāt-ˌhau̇s 
: the building in which a state legislature meets
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