Unseat is an English word with synonyms like remove or move. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Unseat meaning
- To dislodge or remove (someone) from a seat, especially on horseback.
- To remove (someone) from an office or position, especially a political one; to dethrone.
- To cause (something) to be removed or replaced in its role; to displace, to overturn.
Using Unseat
- The main meaning on this page is: To dislodge or remove (someone) from a seat, especially on horseback. | To remove (someone) from an office or position, especially a political one; to dethrone. | To cause (something) to be removed or replaced in its role; to displace, to overturn.
- Useful related words include: remove, move, displace.
- In the example corpus, unseat often appears in combinations such as: to unseat, unseat the, unseat him.
Context around Unseat
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 11 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Unseat
- In this selection, "unseat" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, top, modi and andy stand out and add context to how "unseat" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include aiming to unseat the ruling and attempt to unseat kleon from. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "unseat" sits close to words such as accelerates, allotment and ascended, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with unseat
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Seaborn will attempt to unseat NDP MLA Shannon Phillips. (9 words)
But despite the initial momentum, the Opposition failed to unseat Mr. Erdogan. (12 words)
But these demands aim to shape the universities’ core values and unseat top leadership. (14 words)
Certainly, several analysts feel that Gandhi’s Congress Party won’t be able to convert the gathering goodwill for his party into votes and will fall short of winning enough seats to unseat Modi and his party when the elections are held. (42 words)
He also agreed to lower the threshold for triggering a vote on whether to unseat the Speaker, to only one House member, leading to the possibility that the Republican coalition could easily fracture again even after Mr McCarthy's victory. (40 words)
It’s the system that foiled former President Trump’s attempt to unseat Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski in Alaska, and that enabled Native Alaskan Democrat Mary Peltola to defeat former Gov. Sarah Palin for the state’s sole House seat. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
But despite the initial momentum, the Opposition failed to unseat Mr. Erdogan.
But these demands aim to shape the universities’ core values and unseat top leadership.
Certainly, several analysts feel that Gandhi’s Congress Party won’t be able to convert the gathering goodwill for his party into votes and will fall short of winning enough seats to unseat Modi and his party when the elections are held.
He also agreed to lower the threshold for triggering a vote on whether to unseat the Speaker, to only one House member, leading to the possibility that the Republican coalition could easily fracture again even after Mr McCarthy's victory.
He is under attack politically by three Democrats vying to unseat the freshman lawmaker.
He said the Congress aligned with the JD(S) to unseat then Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa.
However, consistently, Patnaik defied expectations, and after a brief stint in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government at the Centre, returned to the state to unseat the Congress.
If the Broncos hope to unseat Andy Reid's stranglehold on the division, Payton has to figure out a way to own the line of scrimmage.
It’s the system that foiled former President Trump’s attempt to unseat Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski in Alaska, and that enabled Native Alaskan Democrat Mary Peltola to defeat former Gov. Sarah Palin for the state’s sole House seat.
Members of McCarthy’s caucus on the hard right threaten to unseat him from the speakership unless he meets their demands, including spending cuts and policy add-ons to must-pass government funding legislation.
Mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, after turning his troops against Moscow and vowing to unseat Russian president Vladimir Putin, has changed his mind after a call with Belorusian leader Alexander Lukashenko.
Mr Ramaswamy is vying to unseat Donald Trump as the presumed 2024 Republican nominee.
Over half a million Poles abroad registered to vote in the Sunday 15 October election, in which Donald Tusk’s opposition party hopes to unseat the ruling nationalist Law and Justice party.
Rajasthan Assembly Election 2023 Voting Live Updates (November 25): Rajasthan is voting today to elect members of a new assembly, with the BJP aiming to unseat the ruling Congress led by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot.
Seaborn will attempt to unseat NDP MLA Shannon Phillips.
Sokrates is also a heavy hitter in the attempt to unseat Kleon from power and helps weave unrest within the Athenian population.
The opposition coalition will seek to unseat South America’s longest-ruling party Sunday, April 30th, in the country’s general elections.
The Prime Minister and the Police Commissioner have denied, any involvement in a reported plot to unseat the executive in Tobago.
This perhaps puts the onus on yields to have a rampant month to unseat gold from its seasonal trend.
When up against President Joe Biden in the general election, the jury is still out on who holds the best position to unseat the current president.
Common combinations with unseat
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to unseat 149×
- unseat the 26×
- unseat him 15×
- unseat sen 5×
- and unseat 4×
- unseat incumbent 4×
- unseat an 4×
- unseat rep 4×
- unseat president 4×
- unseat buhari 4×