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Example sentences for: gavel

How can you use “gavel” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Hyde, who's trying desperately to be patient, is fingering his gavel like he wants to heave it at Frank.
Even at 75 miles per hour, I could count on driving at least 12 hours, making it just in time for the opening gavel at 1 p.m.
To count on party discipline to reject McCain-Feingold outright, or to use the power of the gavel to prevent it from coming to the floor, would be to court a public backlash and a revolt within the Republican caucus.
Everybody leads with the jockeying in the House of Representatives for the Speaker's gavel.
As soon as Chairman Henry Hyde, R-Ill., bangs the gavel at 10:10 a.m., committee Democrats start carping that they are being unfairly silenced, that they and Clinton's lawyers have not been given enough time to question Starr.