How to Use gavel in a Sentence

gavel

noun

• That’s bound to cause headaches for the guy holding the gavel.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2023
• And so the Brown grads drank, the clank clank of the gavel echoing over the din of chatter and 2000s pop punk.
  — Hau Chu, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2023
• And McCarthy needs to keep them all happy in order to keep the gavel.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 14 July 2023
• One of the King’s royally swish gifts will go under the gavel this spring.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 19 Mar. 2024
• The outcome was certain before the gavel came down to open the meeting.
  — Jeffrey Collins, Quartz, 6 Feb. 2024
• The postage stamp that started it all is going under the gavel.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 26 Oct. 2021
• Householder returned to the Ohio House in 2016 with his eye on the speaker's gavel.
  — Jessie Balmert, USA TODAY, 29 June 2023
• Why isn't that enough to have already gotten a speaker in place, holding the gavel?
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2023
• Stay tuned to see what other classics will go under the gavel.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 28 June 2023
• The chamber will enter next month with a new person holding the gavel.
  — Alex Thomas, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2023
• On Saturday Phelan still didn’t have enough Democrats to bring the gavel down to open a meeting.
  — Dallas News, 9 Aug. 2021
• The list of House Republicans who have tried and failed to win the speaker’s gavel keeps growing.
  — Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
• Democrats see Jefferies as a speaker in waiting, just five seats away from taking the gavel.
  — ABC News, 17 Sep. 2023
• The banging of the gavel did little to quiet Macek or the other attendees.
  — Nicole Carr, ProPublica, 29 June 2023
• The House has held six rounds of voting for speaker over two days and still no nominee has received enough votes to win the gavel.
  — WSJ, 5 Jan. 2023
• At the House dais, Speaker Mike Johnson held the gavel, looking stricken.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
• One of the concessions McCarthy made to win the speaker’s gavel was to use the need to raise the debt limit to force Democrats to agree to federal spending cuts.
  — Jim Puzzanghera, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2023
• Don’t be surprised if its gavel price is beaten in the next four to five years, though, especially with how things have gone over the last decade.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 5 Dec. 2023
• The clerk has had to repeatedly use her gavel to call the House into order as the day wanes and lawmakers get antsy.
  — WSJ, 5 Jan. 2023
• The board president rapped his gavel and issued a stern warning to a room filled with rainbow flags, parents and teens.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
• McCarty himself earns 43 of those 44 votes despite not mounting a bid for the gavel.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 24 Oct. 2023
• McCarthy has long held the dream of wielding the gavel, but his chase has become an undisputed nightmare.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 5 Jan. 2023
• Some lawmakers are threatening to strip McCarthy of the gavel over the spending bills.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 21 Sep. 2023
• To secure the gavel, McCarthy made a long list of concessions to some of the most extreme members of his conference.
  — Michael Fanone, CNN, 8 Mar. 2023
• Foley put on a tie with a colorful cartoon print — he is known for his fun neckwear — and invited the children up to the bench to bang the gavel.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 2 June 2023
• Six Republicans are still blocking his path to the gavel.
  — Amanda Kaufman, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2023
• Along the same wall are two gavels, one of which is in a display case, memorializing the passage of the American Rescue Plan.
  — Nolan D. McCaskill, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2023
• Kevin McCarthy promised to leverage the debt ceiling to cut spending in exchange for gaining the House speaker’s gavel.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 13 Jan. 2023
• Eight Republicans are vying to claim the speaker’s gavel, but none so far appear to have a path to earn the 217 votes required to prevail.
  — Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
• But after the gavel was hit, the state only made $2,075, according to officials.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024