How to Use House of Commons in a Sentence

House of Commons

noun phrase
  • The five winners were pitted against counterparts in the British House of Commons.
    — Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Newsweek also contacted the British House of Commons by email for comment outside its normal business hours.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Reform hopes to win the race and also gain hundreds of local council seats and a House of Commons lawmaker on Thursday.
    — Jill Lawless, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2025
  • To join the contest, candidates must win the support of a fifth, or 81, of the party’s House of Commons lawmakers.
    — ABC News, 22 June 2026
  • Johnson's warmth was shared by Lindsay Hoyle, speaker of the British House of Commons, who introduced him.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC news, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Farage’s party has only five lawmakers in the 650 seat House of Commons, and Labour has more than 400.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Canada’s House of Commons unanimously approved a motion this week calling on the government to declare a national state of emergency.
    — Susan Montoya Bryan, Anchorage Daily News, 5 May 2023
  • Under Labour’s rules, candidates must have the support of a fifth of the party's House of Commons lawmakers — a number that currently stands at 81.
    — ABC News, 12 May 2026
  • Under Labour’s rules, candidates must have the support of a fifth of the party’s House of Commons lawmakers — a number that currently stands at 81.
    — ABC News, 12 May 2026
  • Spencer won by an unexpectedly wide margin to give the environmentalist Greens their fifth seat in the 650-seat House of Commons.
    — ABC News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The position, modeled after parliamentary leaders in the British House of Commons, was meant to act as a nonpartisan moderator and referee.
    — Sorelle Wyckoff Gaynor, The Conversation, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Both are independently audited, according to a research briefing on the finances of the monarchy published last week on the British House of Commons Library’s website.
    — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 24 July 2024
  • This constituency was created in 2024 following a comprehensive review and redrawing of boundaries for House of Commons seats.
    — Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2026
  • As far back as 1978, the UK House of Commons investigated potential price-fixing within the industry.
    — Laura Kolbe, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Labor’s large House of Commons majority means lawmakers will almost certainly vote Tuesday to send the bill on for further scrutiny, despite Conservative misgivings.
    — Jill Lawless, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Instead, voters elect members of the British Parliament's lower House of Commons to represent their local constituencies, and the leader of the party that wins a majority of the seats in the house generally becomes the prime minister.
    — Inaya Folarin Iman, CBS News, 19 May 2026
  • After hours of House of Commons debate, a vote was averted when the government gave in to lawmakers' anger and agreed that the Intelligence and Security Committee would decide what papers should be published, rather than a senior civil servant as Starmer had proposed.
    — Jill Lawless The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 5 Feb. 2026

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