How to Use tea party in a Sentence

tea party

noun
  • Kitty didn’t want to do the sewing clubs and the tea parties.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Serve these bites at the tea party, or pack them for an on-the-go lunch.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 21 June 2023
  • Your nieces want to have a tea party, but the big game starts in 10 minutes?
    Abc News, ABC News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • First, a pro-Trump group with roots in the tea party movement.
    BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The house, where the tea party was planned, is a popular stop on the Freedom Trail.
    Maeve Lawler, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The tea party group also provided the filing to The Post.
    Beth Reinhard, Jacqueline Alemany and Josh Dawsey, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Dec. 2021
  • My daughter has also played with it on her own for tea parties with her dolls.
    Jessica Booth, Parents, 1 Nov. 2023
  • To lead the unit, Brnovich chose Jennifer Wright, a lawyer whose 2011 bid for Phoenix mayor was backed by tea party activists.
    Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The dwarf Mime’s workshop is a creepy tea party and puppet theater for raggedy homemade dolls.
    New York Times, 7 Aug. 2022
  • This is not the first brush with controversy for Gosar, who was first elected in 2010's tea party wave.
    Arkansas Online, 18 Nov. 2021
  • In the sweet photo, a toddler Lourd is having a tea party with Reynolds, complete with a pink Minnie Mouse tea set.
    Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com, 1 Apr. 2022
  • The tea party class of Republicans a decade ago brought the nation to the brink of default over the issue and set a new GOP strategy.
    Lisa Mascaro, chicagotribune.com, 9 Oct. 2021
  • With Obama in the White House, the new, conservative tea party movement swept the nation.
    Dallas News, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The work is set to be completed by mid-December, just before the 250th anniversary of the tea party.
    Maeve Lawler, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
  • With the rise of the tea party movement, the organization grew rapidly.
    Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2021
  • In 2021, Kate was treated to a birthday tea party hosted by her husband and kids at Anmer Hall.
    Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Johnson, who rose out of the tea party movement in 2010, has long been aligned with Trump's hardline policies and politics.
    Arkansas Online, 9 Jan. 2022
  • Johnson, who rose out of the tea party movement in 2010, has long been aligned with Trump’s hardline policies and politics.
    Scott Bauer, chicagotribune.com, 10 Jan. 2022
  • The Duke of Cambridge later hosted a tea party in the gardens of Buckingham Palace to pay tribute to health workers.
    Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 July 2021
  • In her high-heeled shoes, fur jacket and elegant wool dress, Cowles looked as though she were dressed for a Manhattan tea party rather than the trenches of Spain.
    Judith MacKrell, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2021
  • The cute carousel showed Ryan posing in a white outfit and matching beret, later enjoying a tea party at a restaurant.
    Amethyst Tate, PEOPLE.com, 20 July 2022
  • But three very different men have tried to lead House Republicans in the dozen years since the tea party insurgency pushed the party to the right in 2010.
    David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The tea party’s lurch to the right was followed by the liberal infighting of the 2016 election and the clash of both movements in the bitter acrimony sparked by the election of Trump.
    John Myers, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2022
  • Alice seems happily content with Chauncey, sitting down for a tea party with him and playing hide and seek.
    Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Recreate the Mad Hatter tea party scene with twinkling lights, Mad Hatter centerpieces, a life-sized rabbit, and crazy signs all over the place.
    Seventeen.com Editors, Seventeen, 1 Dec. 2022
  • No matter what country, the people who come to the tea parties see lolita fashion as a way of expressing themselves.
    Billboard Japan, Billboard, 25 July 2023
  • When tea party Republicans ran on the idea in 2010, Democratic groups ran ads that blasted the sales tax but ignored the other tax cuts.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2023
  • It has been adopted by the tea party movement and other Republican-leaning groups, but the flag still carries the legacy, and the name, of its creator.
    Jeff Inglis, The Conversation, 15 Sep. 2021
  • This pattern of creating and then losing control of a monster was also on display with the tea party.
    Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Tori Roloff is introducing her little girl to a real-life tea party!
    Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 6 Oct. 2022

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