Examples of statehouse in a Sentence
a field trip to the statehouse to see the legislature in session
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The president has sent Vice President JD Vance to the Indiana statehouse twice to try to shore up Republican support.
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Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 11 Dec. 2025
The group is looking to flip eight Republican majorities in statehouses around the country, create 10 Democratic supermajorities and break 10 Republican supermajorities.
—Julia Mueller, The Hill, 10 Dec. 2025
While Minnesota holds the longest streak—since 1972—of voting for Democrats on the presidential level, Craig notes that statehouse control is tied between the two parties, and the left has just a one-seat majority in the state senate.
—Alex J. Rouhandeh, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025
In Texas, meanwhile, statehouse lobbyists are outright banned from accepting payments from corporations linked to foreign adversaries.
—Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 28 Oct. 2025
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Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 11 Dec. 2025
The group is looking to flip eight Republican majorities in statehouses around the country, create 10 Democratic supermajorities and break 10 Republican supermajorities.
—Julia Mueller, The Hill, 10 Dec. 2025
While Minnesota holds the longest streak—since 1972—of voting for Democrats on the presidential level, Craig notes that statehouse control is tied between the two parties, and the left has just a one-seat majority in the state senate.
—Alex J. Rouhandeh, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025
In Texas, meanwhile, statehouse lobbyists are outright banned from accepting payments from corporations linked to foreign adversaries.
—Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 28 Oct. 2025
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“Statehouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/statehouse. Accessed 17 Dec. 2025.
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statehouse
noun
state·house
ˈstāt-ˌhau̇s 
: the building in which a state legislature meets
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