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
  • But the rise of the tea party was a turning point, research shows.
    Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2020
  • When the tea party came along in 2010, it was fueled by some of the same passions.
    Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 9 July 2019
  • The house, where the tea party was planned, is a popular stop on the Freedom Trail.
    Maeve Lawler, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
  • In the scene, Kardashian has a tea party with her two kids and niece Dream.
    Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 28 June 2024
  • The tea party group also provided the filing to The Post.
    Beth Reinhard, Jacqueline Alemany and Josh Dawsey, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The tea party favorite argues that Trump is unfit for the White House.
    Jaclyn Gallucci, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2019
  • Walsh, a talk-radio host, was elected to Congress in 2010 as part of the tea party wave and served one term.
    Felicia Sonmez, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2019
  • Among the tea party libations is a hibiscus tea and rum drink called The Queen of Hearts.
    Tina Danze, Dallas News, 7 Aug. 2020
  • This is one tea party that I'm both baffled by and a little jealous of.
    Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Phillips was first elected to the council in 2012, with support from the tea party movement.
    Lorraine Longhi, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2020
  • My daughter has also played with it on her own for tea parties with her dolls.
    Jessica Booth, Parents, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Cruz was first elected to Senate in 2012 on the strength of his grass-roots team and connections to the tea party movement.
    Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 19 July 2019
  • 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
  • Mike DeWine, as well as hundreds of tea party activists.
    Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 1 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • Next there was a candlelit dinner, with the tablescape inspired by the ones Reed used to create as a small child for his dolls’ tea parties.
    Rebecca Cope, Vogue, 26 June 2024
  • 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
  • Byrne was viewed as a pro-business Republican, while Young was tagged as the tea party darling.
    al, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Since then, members of the Senate’s tea party class of 2010 have taken different paths.
    David M. Drucker, Washington Examiner, 25 Dec. 2020
  • 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

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