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
• Now, the show has been unseated by something rather strange.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 27 May 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
• The lieutenant governor took the feud to the next step on Monday, announcing his run to unseat her in next year’s primary.
  — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 2 June 2025
• The officials had become unnerved by the heated rhetoric and wary of a prolonged legal battle should Trump attempt to unseat the Fed chair.
  — Kevin Liptak, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2025