How to Use unseat in a Sentence

unseat

verb
  • The horse bucked and unseated its rider.
  • He unseated an incumbent senator.
  • The move, in part, cost him the post in late 2014, when Gary Hirsch unseated him.
    Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 17 Apr. 2024
  • That record held for more than three decades when it was unseated in the 2010s.
    Sean Evans, Robb Report, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The scandal sent two judges to prison and unseated a third.
    Anat Rubin, ProPublica, 4 Nov. 2023
  • The meet record for St. John’s Prep unseated the prior mark set back in 2019.
    Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Democrats are aiming to unseat Collins, Husted, and Tillis.
    Ramsey Touchberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Start with a ranked win over Kansas, when the Tigers unseated the No. 1 team in the country.
    Scott Chasen, Kansas City Star, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Democrats seek to unseat Brandon Williams, one of... 5:45 p.m.
    Washington Post, 24 June 2024
  • Of the four members of Gascón’s office in the race, Hatami might have the best chance of unseating his boss.
    James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Atlantic, which spent most of the past two seasons in the top spot of the rankings, will try to unseat this year’s No. 1 on the road.
    Gary Curreri, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Twelve Democrats are already vying for the chance to unseat him.
    Grayson Quay, The Week, 9 Jan. 2022
  • The long jump record unseated a prior mark that had stood since 2003.
    Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 18 Jan. 2025
  • The winner will try to unseat six-term Rep. David Schweikert in the swing district.
    Leigh Ann Caldwell, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
  • Its leaders tried many times to unseat the Arellanos but failed.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2022
  • But Thomas helped the club remain one of the league’s best and a dark horse to unseat the Liberty or Aces in the playoffs.
    Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Four years ago, the state’s teachers’ union spent more than $5 million to unseat him.
    New York Times, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Tim Backes is hoping to unseat one of them and join the council.
    Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The question now is whether any of them can unseat Atomix as the front-runner.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Yes, the idea of unseating the defending world champs in the AL West race is fading.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Donovan failed by a wide margin in a bid to unseat Barrett in 2016.
    Vanessa Swales, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Dec. 2021
  • While serviceable, this is not the most ideal set-up for a team hoping to unseat the 98-win Dodgers.
    Dan Freedman, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
  • And these two positions are musts if the Broncos want to unseat the Kansas City Chiefs.
    Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 5 Mar. 2025
  • At the start of the war, Putin seemed keen to crush Ukraine, unseat Zelensky and install his own puppet regime.
    Erica Ariel Fox, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2022
  • And worst of all, once embedded, that leader is very hard to unseat.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Challengers from the centre and left have tried mightily, and failed, to unseat him.
    The Economist, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Even when the next cards arrive, they must be priced aggressively to unseat the B580.
    PCMAG, 12 Dec. 2024
  • As in 2020, voters this fall will have a choice between Trump and Biden, who unseated Trump four years ago.
    Joey Garrison, Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2024
  • Still, Ty Simpson is leading the competition and will be hard to unseat, and Keelon Russell is continuing to push.
    Kennington Smith Iii, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Gaines has vowed to help unseat all 45 Democrat senators who voted against the bill, and has not ruled out a potential run for political office herself in the future.
    Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 13 Mar. 2025

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