How to Use chamber in a Sentence

chamber

1 of 2 noun

• There are four chambers in the human heart.
• If the batteries are not properly installed in the chamber of the remote control, it won't work.
• We waited for the senator outside the Senate chamber.
• The U.S. legislature is separated into two chambers: the Senate and the House of Representatives.
• But the efforts to force a vote on the bills failed in both chambers along party lines.
  — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2024
• But a spokesperson for the chamber told The Times the city owns all the stars and the sidewalks they’re embedded in.
  — Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2023
• The chamber is slated to debate the package on June 15.
  — Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2023
• One problem with this plan: The House is not the only chamber in Congress.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 14 June 2023
• This level of support could set the stage for the upper chamber to advance the bill in the coming months.
  — Owen Tedford, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• Place a few cups of ice into the chamber to clean a garbage disposal with ice.
  — Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 June 2023
• The church was told that the gun had a bullet jammed in the chamber, indicating the suspect may have tried to use it.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 12 Mar. 2024
• The upper chamber will have to move with uncommon speed to vote on that and send it to the House for approval before the end of the week.
  — Marianna Sotomayor, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
• The chamber will enter next month with a new person holding the gavel.
  — Alex Thomas, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2023
• Those who leave the chamber during a session of the trial will need to keep their ticket to re-enter.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2023
• The chamber also had a hand in defending Georgia in the tri-state water wars.
  — Mirtha Donastorg, ajc, 31 July 2023
• In the impeachment of Gov. James Ferguson in 1917, the governor chose to be in the chamber in person.
  — Philip Jankowski, Dallas News, 22 June 2023
• Whether they’d been injected or not, the fish preferred the enriched chamber.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 9 June 2023
• Then the Democrats who had not yet voted began rushing into the chamber.
  — Lisa Mascaro, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2023
• That’s because the main sample chamber has yet to be opened, officials said.
  — Time, 11 Oct. 2023
• The judge was supposed to invite him to her chambers for a personal meeting.
  — Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
• Thomas is a godfather to one of Leo’s daughters and keeps a drawing by Margaret in his chambers.
  — Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 11 Oct. 2023
• The absences of nearly one-third of the House members means that the chamber will not be able to hold floor sessions, where the entire House debates and votes on bills.
  — The Arizona Republic, 29 Feb. 2024
• The magazine of the Glock had six live 9mm rounds in a 15-round capacity magazine., with a live round in the chamber.
  — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 20 Feb. 2024
• The GOP has only a five-seat majority in the lower chamber.
  — Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
• The debris was consistent with the disastrous loss of the 22-foot-long vessel’s pressure chamber, the Coast Guard said.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 24 June 2023
• Then, air would be let back into the chamber, causing the lungs to deflate and allowing the patient to exhale.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023
• If all members of the current Congress are in the chamber to vote for a new speaker, that candidate will need at least 217 votes.
  — WSJ, 18 Oct. 2023
• When Swezey offered up his home chamber in the 1950s, its use seemed somewhat practical.
  — Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 23 Nov. 2023
• The two appeared to pray for a short time, then Barber looked around the death chamber and towards the witness room and cracked a smile toward his advisor.
  — Marty Roney, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
• Dozens of seats in the Kentucky statehouse are up for grabs this year as Republicans seek to maintain their grip on both chambers.
  — Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 8 Jan. 2024

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chamber

2 of 2 verb

• All welcome; free to chamber members, $15 for guests and $25 at the door.
  — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2022
• Finch chambered a round and pointed it at the motorist.
  — Glenn E. Rice, kansascity.com, 2 June 2017
• Free to chamber members; $10 for guests who reserve; $20 at the door.
  — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2022
• On the outdoor stage there is an eclectic range of music, from Afro-Cuban to chamber.
  — Gerald Eskenazi, Forbes, 3 June 2021
• This event is open to the community, free to chamber members and $10 for guests.
  — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Aug. 2022
• The event is free to chamber members; $10 for nonmembers.
  — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2022
• The seminar is free to chamber members, $25 for guests.
  — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2022
• To fire, hold the action release down and pump once to chamber a round before firing.
  — Jim Baird, Field & Stream, 21 Oct. 2020
• Some guns are chambered for 3-inch shells capable of holding up to 1 1/4-ounces of lead shot.
  — Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 11 Dec. 2019
• The event is free to chamber members who register and $5 per person for guests.
  — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2021
• Both camps have a point, but the dogpile of insults and echo-chambering leaves little room for seeing eye to eye.
  — Sara Li, Teen Vogue, 9 Mar. 2020
• Of those, 87 were loaded, and nearly half of the guns loaded with ammo also had a live round chambered, ready to fire.
  — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2018
• About 35 percent of those weapons found last year had at least one round chambered, which is a big safety issue.
  — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 31 Jan. 2018
• Ribbon cutting is at 6 p.m. Free to chamber members, $10 for guests.
  — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 June 2022
• With upward pressure on the magazine, use your firing hand thumb to sweep the slide release downward to close the slide and chamber a fresh round.
  — Chris Mudgett, Outdoor Life, 1 July 2020
• Magnum revolver bullet will not fit in a Glock pistol chambered in .357 SIG.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2023
• Now it is chambered in many calibers although the most popular is the original .45 ACP.
  — Joe Songer | [e-mail], AL.com, 23 Jan. 2018
• Although the round isn’t exactly a household name, more rifles are now being chambered for the cartridge.
  — Mike Dickerson, Field & Stream, 22 Jan. 2020
• Agents also found more than an ounce of marijuana and four firearms, all loaded and with bullets chambered.
  — Ryan Martin, Indianapolis Star, 21 Dec. 2017
• The rifle had a loaded magazine inserted, but a round was not chambered.
  — CBS News, 10 Aug. 2019
• Instead of just looking at the heart as a multi-chambered organ in a chest-cavity, physicians might consider aspects of the heart that can't be seen in a scan.
  — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 8 Sep. 2017
• The exquisite sound of a round being securely chambered.
  — Azad Cudi, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
• Our test rifle was chambered in 6 Creedmoor and shot five-shot groups averaging .681 inch.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 26 Nov. 2019
• Officers usually have a round chambered in their sidearms.
  — John Eligon, Vivian Yee and Matt Furber, New York Times, 22 July 2017
• The officer reaches for his semiautomatic pistol, and in a quick action, pulls back the pistol slide to chamber a round, a video shows.
  — Alex Horton, chicagotribune.com, 6 May 2018
• Admission is free to chamber members bringing a new, unwrapped toy.
  — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Nov. 2021
• The gun, a Mossberg model 500A, holds multiple rounds and must be pumped after each discharge to chamber another shell.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 2 Mar. 2011
• Access to the memorial, including the steps and chamber with the statue of Abraham Lincoln, will remain open to the public during the construction.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 21 Feb. 2023
• But some semiautos chambered for 3 1/2-inch shells struggle to cycle very light loads used for dove hunting and target shooting.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
• Signage is free to chamber members, $10 to others particpating in the effort.
  — Yvette Orozco, Houston Chronicle, 5 June 2020

Last Updated: 6 May 2024