take a seat's Usage Examples:

Dalrymple succeeded to the office when then-Governor John Hoeven resigned to take a seat in the U.

2%, was the first candidate to take a seat from the Conservatives in the area covered by the present county of Surrey in 56 years.

In July 1863, Mitchell left the Confederate Army to take a seat in the Florida House of Representatives, to which he had been elected.

On 11 April 2006, Downing Street announced that Colin Boyd would take a seat as a crossbench life peer; however, he took the Labour whip after resigning.

represented by Evan Jenkins until he resigned on September 30, 2018 to take a seat as a justice on the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

had assumed the office when Harold Hitz Burton resigned as mayor to take a seat in the United States Senate.

He took enough votes in the first count to hold on to take a seat in later counts.

SC candidate Norman James placed low in the first count but got enough votes from other candidates who were dropped out, and from Manning's surplus votes, to take a seat, pushing out O'Connor, a Unity League candidate.

  Whig   Republican   Know Nothing Resigned to take a seat in a federal court.

Chivukula, who left office to take a seat as a Commissioner on the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities.

the state"s highest office after Huey Long left the governorship to take a seat in the United States Senate.

triggered by the resignation of mayor Bobby Bright, who resigned in order to take a seat he was elected to in the United States House of Representatives.

Robinson in March 1913 to take a seat in the United States Senate.

Synonyms:

move, act,

Antonyms:

refrain, block, recall,