How to Use congress in a Sentence

congress

noun
  • She was recently elected to the country's congress.
  • The bill easily passed both houses of Congress.
  • Congress is not currently in session.
  • The groups are known as a convocation, an aerie, even a congress.
    Journal Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The next congress of the PCC should take place in 2021.
    Nora Gámez Torres, miamiherald, 2 Mar. 2018
  • The congress in Moscow is set to choose the host or hosts for the 2026 World Cup.
    Fox News, 12 June 2018
  • Investors are watching the congress for signs of where the party wants to go and how fast.
    Time, Time, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The president bowed to the congress, waved, and even joined in the applause himself.
    Simon Denyer, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2018
  • The youth congress was established in 1937 and grew, even through the upheaval of World War II.
    Jeffrey Collins, The Seattle Times, 23 July 2018
  • Le Pen told a cheering crowd at the end of the party’s annual congress in Lille.
    New York Times, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Mar. 2018
  • For many, Harris was all of those things and will remain so through her work as a member of congress.
    Wired, 5 Dec. 2019
  • All of congress has seen it, not just the special committees.
    CBS News, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Even Sirleaf had to admit this in an address to the Liberian congress this year.
    Chude Jideonwo, CNN, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Look at me, going to congress and speaking to the United Nations and building a brand.
    Justine Harman, Glamour, 16 Jan. 2018
  • At a party congress in December the SPD must decide whether to do just that.
    The Economist, 31 Aug. 2019
  • The great role, the only important one at the congress, was played by Stalin himself.
    Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian, 10 Oct. 2017
  • At this congress, Mr Xi would have been expected to signal a choice of someone to take over from him.
    The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The incoming congress will be the first whose members are allowed to run for re-election.
    The Economist, 5 July 2018
  • A few hundred people protested outside the building where the congress was held in Bucharest.
    Andra Timu, Bloomberg.com, 10 Mar. 2018
  • The congress found that between 30 to 50 percent of women who take only the first pill go on to carry their babies to term.
    Sammy Caiola, sacbee, 23 May 2017
  • Only weeks since she was elected into congress, Ilhan Omar is working to lift the ban on the hijab in the House.
    Rebekka Ayres, Teen Vogue, 30 Nov. 2018
  • The congress center plans to turn a portion of the old dome site into a luxury hotel.
    Scott Trubey, ajc, 20 Apr. 2017
  • Any changes to policy must be approved by congress, the challengers said.
    Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 12 Sep. 2019
  • This was a district that President Trump won by nearly 20 points, an area that hasn’t sent a Democrat to congress in over a decade.
    Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2018
  • The constitutional amendment, along with Xi's work report and a work report of the graft watchdog to the congress, were passed by a show of hands.
    Author: Michael Martina, Philip Wen, Alaska Dispatch News, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Earlier this month, the body of Abel Montufar, a candidate for congress from the state of Guerrero, was found in his truck.
    Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 20 May 2018
  • But the deal must be approved by SPD party members at a congress planned for January 21.
    NBC News, 12 Jan. 2018
  • The president will present his case to congress on December 21st.
    The Economist, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Putin plans to invite all Syrian factions to a congress in Sochi early next year.
    Margaret Talev, Bloomberg.com, 4 Dec. 2017
  • At the congress, Beam met with 12 other white power leaders and movement elders to craft a battle plan.
    TIME, 5 Feb. 2024

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