How to Use catbird seat in a Sentence

catbird seat

noun
  • Show up early to grab a beer and a seat in the gallery windows, a catbird seat for people watching.
    — Southern Living, 27 Feb. 2017
  • Toronto was in the catbird seat, just six outs away from the Fall Classic.
    — Joe Kozlowski, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Brat is what happens when an auteur is given a budget and the catbird seat in the boardroom.
    — Hazlitt, 17 July 2024
  • And Shanae is in the catbird seat, still mulling over whether to pick Logan or James.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Despite the Wings’ catbird seat, the series couldn’t have been closer.
    — Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Now there is a new voice in the Packers’ catbird seat, Brian Gutekunst.
    — Andrew Brandt, SI.com, 9 Jan. 2018
  • That’s the call from the catbird seat, where folks are furious about the lack of action on the diamond and at hitters who whiff at record paces.
    — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 June 2021
  • The catbird seats were occupied instead by the titans of attention.
    — Ezra Klein, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The next guy to occupy the catbird seat is a name that might be familiar to New England football fans.
    — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2022
  • Carter Jensen always dreamed of sitting in the catbird seat at Kauffman Stadium.
    — Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The company makes packaging, which should put it in the catbird seat as e-commerce became many people’s go-to during the pandemic.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022
  • In common parlance, sitting in the catbird seat is having an advantage or position of power, perhaps an unseen one.
    — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 18 July 2019
  • Even with all of the congressional turnover — and the prospect that more could be coming — the GOP still sits in the catbird seat in Texas.
    — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Publicly the Communist Party acts like this market dominance puts it in the economic catbird seat.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Of the two Democratic leaders, Newsom had the easier path to the political catbird seat.
    — John Myers, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2022
  • If the tastemakers ever likewise catch up with Kreindler, the baseball historians and fans who got there first will rise from their catbird seats behind home plate and make room for them, under the lights.
    — Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 23 Jan. 2018
  • William Byron, on the other hand, is in the catbird seat among Hendrick Motorsports drivers and sits with a seven-point cushion above the cutoff line.
    — Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Known as a top-notch recruiter and motivator, Orgeron impressively assembled a staff and a team — while adjusting his own coaching philosophy — to put the Tigers in the catbird seat.
    — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Baltimore's loss Sunday vaults Pats into their familiar catbird seat by virtue of a conference record (6-1) that supersedes those of the Ravens and Titans.
    — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2021

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