How to Use unseat in a Sentence

unseat

verb
  • The horse bucked and unseated its rider.
  • He unseated an incumbent senator.
  • The league tried and failed to unseat Raman two years ago.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2026
  • To sit still is to stagnate, which is to be unseated.
    — Megan Feringa, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Twelve Democrats are already vying for the chance to unseat him.
    — Grayson Quay, The Week, 9 Jan. 2022
  • Its leaders tried many times to unseat the Arellanos but failed.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2022
  • And worst of all, once embedded, that leader is very hard to unseat.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Llamas, a cousin of the camel, may even unseat unicorns as the best seller.
    — Carole Landry, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2020
  • The question is whether or not Wednesday will be able to come back and unseat it.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Four years ago, the state’s teachers’ union spent more than $5 million to unseat him.
    — New York Times, 4 Nov. 2021
  • That record held for more than three decades when it was unseated in the 2010s.
    — Sean Evans, Robb Report, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Tim Backes is hoping to unseat one of them and join the council.
    — Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Before that rule change, a single member could move for a vote to unseat the speaker.
    — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The research around flow leaves no doubt that flow at least temporarily unseats the ego.
    — Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The question now is whether any of them can unseat Atomix as the front-runner.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Challengers from the centre and left have tried mightily, and failed, to unseat him.
    — The Economist, 30 Dec. 2020
  • The long jump record unseated a prior mark that had stood since 2003.
    — Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 18 Jan. 2025
  • The Nuggets were supposed to unseat OKC.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The goal is to unseat the Chiefs, who are clearly vulnerable.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Amid Suarez’s efforts to unseat Dominguez, allies have rushed to her defense.
    — Aaron Leibowitz, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Does Raman have a chance at unseating her former ally?
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026
  • He has been unseated by veteran Jones.
    — James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
  • But a tilt may not be enough in a midterm election to unseat him—Georgia is not Alabama.
    — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 July 2025
  • Still, no city has managed to unseat Hall of Famer Quebec City.
    — Siobhan Reid, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2020
  • The move, in part, cost him the post in late 2014, when Gary Hirsch unseated him.
    — Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Rackauckas was unseated by Todd Spitzer, who ran on a campaign of reform.
    — Tony Saavedra, Oc Register, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Experts have said that airstrikes alone are unlikely to be enough to unseat Iran's leadership.
    — Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Donovan failed by a wide margin in a bid to unseat Barrett in 2016.
    — Vanessa Swales, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Of the four members of Gascón’s office in the race, Hatami might have the best chance of unseating his boss.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2024
  • While serviceable, this is not the most ideal set-up for a team hoping to unseat the 98-win Dodgers.
    — Dan Freedman, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024

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