the White House

noun

1

: the place in Washington, D.C., where the U.S. President lives

2

: the executive branch of the U.S. government

The White House announced the new appointments to the Cabinet.

White House staffers

Examples of the White House in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

They're honored and grateful to be invited and any opportunity to visit the White House as a team will be based on their schedules once their seasons conclude. —Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Feb. 2026

Critics call this an abuse of power, what the Pentagon is doing and what the White House is doing. —CBS News, 28 Feb. 2026

The men’s team took their invitation to Washington and then had to explain the White House’s Tik-Tok creations. —Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2026

Particularly when Congress is controlled by the president’s party, the White House has shown little deference to Congress, which is often on the backfoot anyway. —Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 28 Feb. 2026

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