How to Use bicameral in a Sentence

bicameral

adjective
  • So far, only about two-thirds of the 275 seats in the nation’s bicameral parliament have been filled.
    — Mohammed Omar Ahmed, Bloomberg.com, 25 Feb. 2022
  • This is the first bicameral legislation aimed at doing so, according to a spokesman for Lee.
    — Eugene Scott, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2017
  • The House left town for recess, just a day after the Senate, with no bicameral path to fund the department.
    — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Yet, our whole government was set up with three co-equal branches of government and a bicamerallegislature, to boot.
    — CBS News, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Those candidates will be put to a vote, with the whole 750-seat bicameral legislature voting.
    — Heather Chen, CNN, 13 May 2023
  • His bill, which has bicameral support and bipartisan backing in the House, is awaiting hearings.
    — Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The final bicameral version of the defense authorization will not be complete until later this year.
    — Star Tribune, 24 July 2021
  • Five members of the minority agreed to vote in favor of the timing clause in exchange for the creation of a bicameral, nonpartisan working group.
    — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2021
  • To thank all the American people, as well as the Congress for their bicameral and bipartisan support.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 25 Apr. 2022
  • This bipartisan, bicameral reform deserves quick passage so servicemembers and their families have a safe place to call home.
    — James Herrera Monterey Herald, Arkansas Online, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The Budget Control Act mandated caps in the event that a special bicameral group couldn’t come up with a grand bargain to curb the national debt.
    — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2018
  • And states with a bicameral legislature can have some mixture of these theories, such as one population base for its lower house and another for its upper chamber.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 9 July 2019
  • The legislation was approved by the lower house of the bicameral parliament of the Netherlands on Tuesday.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2022
  • Legislators have created a bicameral, nonpartisan working group ordered to come up with a plan that can be discussed in the special session later this year.
    — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2021
  • Leaders in both chambers have suggested that the Senate bill is likely to go to a bicameral conference to reconcile their differences.
    — Bob Woods, CNBC, 29 Mar. 2026
  • An ardent dislike for Gaetz might be the most bipartisan, bicameral issue to come out of the 118th Congress.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 4 Jan. 2025
  • The reality is that whoever controls the government controls the Knesset, which is a single house, not bicameral.
    — Jo-Ann Mort, The New Republic, 19 July 2023
  • The bipartisan and bicameral push for the funding takes place as Congress and the White House rush to fund parts of the government ahead of funding deadlines.
    — Willie James Inman, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Worse, the legislature is now checked by both the supermajority burden and the bicameral check and balance the Framers invented.
    — Thomas Geoghegan, The New Republic, 14 June 2021
  • The bipartisan and bicameral group with Democrats at the helm was supposed to meet virtually every Tuesday, but that hasn’t been happening.
    — Greg Bishop, Washington Examiner, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Tocqueville wanted a bicameral legislature on the American model, but proponents of a single chamber won the day.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Congress embraced this approach on a bicameral, bipartisan basis.
    — Mira Rapp-Hooper, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The starting point was a report written by a bipartisan and bicameral fiscal policy working group in 2021.
    — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Feb. 2023
  • In the aftermath of the attacks, Senate Republicans effectively killed any hopes of a bicameral probe and shut-down talk of work on a Senate query.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 7 Feb. 2022
  • In a potential sign of things to come, the bicameral working group in charge of negotiating a compromise on the dividend has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday morning.
    — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2019
  • Their heartbreaking testimony in the bicameral committee hearing also led some committee members to cry.
    — Suzanne Gamboa, NBC news, 20 Aug. 2025
  • In the end, no bicameral or parallel governing structure emerged, and power now rests solely with the prime minister and the cabinet, a fact Saint-Cyr acknowledged in his speech.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2026
  • But Congress is a bicameral legislature, and the House deserves an opportunity to improve on the Senate’s work.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2018
  • One measure, introduced in 2018 in Mexico’s bicameral legislature, passed last year in one chamber and is now sitting in the other.
    — Leila Miller, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The bicameral system is returning even though 80% of voters rejected it in a 2018 referendum.
    — ABC News, 8 Apr. 2026

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