How to Use the House in a Sentence

the House

noun
  • Democrats won the House that year.
    — Emily Guskin, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Crow will back the bill in the House.
    — Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The bill still must go to the House.
    — David A. Lieb, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The bill will head to the House floor next.
    — Makenzie Huber, States Newsroom, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The bill has not yet made progress in the House.
    — Bruna Horvath, NBC news, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The bill passed the House by a single vote.
    — Shaun Boyd, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2026
  • Ethics complaints are rare in the House.
    — Caroline Cummings, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The bill next goes to the House floor for debate.
    — Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 26 Apr. 2026
  • My point is that the House already passed a bill.
    — CBS News, 7 June 2026
  • So, my point is that the House already passed a bill.
    — CBS News, 7 June 2026
  • The bill passed the House 81 to 31.
    — Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
  • But the chaos in the House has its roots going back many years.
    — Norman J. Ornstein, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2023
  • How did Trump react to the House vote?
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 4 June 2026
  • It is believed to be a record in the House Era.
    — Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The bill passed the House floor 91-4 in March.
    — Alexia Aston, Oklahoman, 7 Apr. 2026
  • But the House needs to clean up its act, and the Senate.
    — ABC News, 19 Apr. 2026
  • The bill passed the House by voice vote, not a formal tally.
    — Tamia Fowlkes, jsonline.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The bill passed the House 66-40 in March.
    — Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2026
  • That bill has also already cleared the House.
    — Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 4 May 2026
  • Democrats have taken to the House floor to call for her to be seated.
    — Claudia Grisales, NPR, 16 Oct. 2025
  • He is backed by the House Freedom Fund.
    — Rachel Schilke, The Washington Examiner, 7 Oct. 2025
  • For the first time in decades, the House speaker was from Broward, too.
    — Steve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2026
  • In past sessions, the bill has gone first to the House and hasn’t been called for a floor vote.
    — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The bill passed in the Senate but wasn’t called for a vote in the House.
    — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The bill will now head to the House, which is expected to take it up next week.
    — Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2026
  • Bottom line, where does that leave things in the fight for control of the House?
    — Mark Barabak, Mercury News, 20 June 2026
  • That measure already cleared the House.
    — Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 4 May 2026
  • The recorded vote will likely take place next week, then the bill heads to the House.
    — Shaun Boyd, CBS News, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Should the Senate have just taken up the House bill?
    — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • That bill was expected to be taken up by the House.
    — John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 2 May 2026

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