How to Use unicameral in a Sentence

unicameral

adjective
  • Peru’s unicameral congress has twice tried to remove him from office.
    — Franklin Briceno, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The president will defend himself before the unicameral congress on Monday, or send his lawyer to do so.
    — Matthew Bristow, Bloomberg.com, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Acts of the unicameral Congress required concurrence from nine of 13 states.
    — Alexander William Salter, National Review, 4 June 2021
  • The unicameral assembly will remain under control of the ruling party.
    — Dallas Morning News, 4 Jan. 2026
  • The unicameral assembly, which is controlled by Venezuela's ruling party, did not publish drafts on Tuesday nor the final version of the measure.
    — Regina Garcia Cano The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 25 Dec. 2025
  • Peru's fragmented unicameral Congress meanwhile resumed a debate Friday on when and how to hold early elections as a way out of the crisis.
    — Arkansas Online, 17 Dec. 2022
  • The country’s constitution allows the president to dissolve the unicameral parliament if two of his cabinet chiefs lose votes of confidence.
    — John Quigley | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2019
  • All 57 seats in the country's unicameral National Assembly are also up for election.
    — Grayson Quay, The Week, 6 Feb. 2022
  • Whichever candidate wins will have to work with a fragmented unicameral congress, which has contributed to political instability in the last five years.
    — Claudia Rebaza, CNN, 5 June 2021
  • In Nebraska, a push by two Republican senators to require most people to vote in person stalled this year in the unicameral legislature.
    — Neil Vigdor, New York Times, 19 June 2023
  • Nebraska’s unicameral state legislature on Tuesday gave initial passage to a bill that would give college athletes in the state the ability to make money from their name, image and likeness.
    — Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Ten political parties won seats in the unicameral legislature, with no party securing anywhere near a majority.
    — Jorge G. Castañeda, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The unicameral legislature subsequently advanced the bill by a vote of 31-12, with four members abstaining.
    — Corey Deangelis, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Nebraska also has the only unicameral Legislature in the nation and there are no party caucuses, although affiliations are known.
    — Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Peru’s unicameral Congress is deeply fragmented among 10 political parties and rarely can come to any consensus on passing legislation.
    — Franklin Briceño and Regina Garcia Cano, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Marsh specifically dealt with the practice of the Nebraska legislature to pay a chaplain to deliver legislative invocations ahead of its unicameral meetings.
    — David Aaro, Fox News, 17 Feb. 2022
  • His Fidesz party and its allies came away with more than 50 percent of the vote and a two-thirds supermajority in the country’s unicameral National Assembly.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 18 May 2022
  • That would have been a fine commercial if Vargas had been running for reelection to unicameral legislature rather than trying to knock off a difficult-to-dislodge Republican incumbent.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Initial results showed his New Ideas party set to win 56 of 84 seats in the Legislative Assembly, the country’s unicameral congress.
    — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Bacon is facing off in a rematch against Tony Vargas, a Democratic member of Nebraska's unicameral legislature.
    — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2024
  • After the governor rejected the program, thousands of Nebraskans signed a protest petition, and 19 members of the unicameral legislature backed a bill to force the state’s participation.
    — Jason Deparle, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Republicans control both legislative houses in 30 states, plus the unicameral legislature of Nebraska.
    — Grayson Quay, The Week, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The unicameral Nebraska Legislature gave preliminary approval earlier Thursday to a ban on gender-affirming care for minors.
    — Steve Karnowski, ajc, 23 Mar. 2023
  • South Korea has a unicameral legislature — the National Assembly — with 300 members.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 4 May 2020
  • The dynamics of Israel’s fluid multiparty unicameral democracy are different than America’s rigid two-party federal system.
    — Micah L. Sifry, The New Republic, 13 July 2023
  • The unicameral Legislature is officially nonpartisan, but Republicans hold 32 seats to Democrats’ 17, one vote shy of being able to end a filibuster.
    — Jo Yurcaba, NBC News, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The 14th Supreme People's Assembly, the unicameral legislative body of the country, amended the national constitution last year to enshrine nuclear weaponization as a core principle.
    — Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 28 Sep. 2024
  • Iran’s parliament The Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran serves as Iran’s parliament and consists of a unicameral national legislative body.
    — Eric Lob, The Conversation, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Nebraska has a unicameral legislature that is officially nonpartisan; Alaska’s senate is made up of 11 Republicans and nine Democrats but will be led by a bipartisan majority coalition.
    — Randy Yeip, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Republicans hold a 33-16 supermajority in Nebraska’s unicameral legislature that is technically nonpartisan, the only one of its kind in the nation.
    — Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 5 Apr. 2026

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