Sample Sentences forfilibuster (auto-selected)
filibuster as in: filibuster in the Senate
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Sometimes when Rhett was alone with them and Scarlett in the next room, she heard laughter and caught fragments of conversation that meant nothing to her, scraps of words, puzzling names—Cuba and Nassau in the blockade days, the gold rush and claim jumping, gun running and filibustering, Nicaragua and William Walker and how he died against a wall at Truxillo.† (source)
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George Norris, an advocate of a change in the Senate rules to correct the abuses of filibustering, but feeling strongly that the issue of war itself was at stake, adopted this very tactic "in spite of my repugnance to the method."† (source)
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Eh...I just eh...wanted...I forgot...he... —Longworth and M'Curdy Atkinson were there... Puck Mulligan footed featly, trilling: I hardly hear the purlieu cry Or a tommy talk as I pass one by Before my thoughts begin to run On F. M'Curdy Atkinson, The same that had the wooden leg And that filibustering filibeg That never dared to slake his drouth, Magee that had the chinless mouth.† (source)
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From another part of the apartment came a child's voice singing Humpty Dumpty, awakening humiliating memories of my first Easter program during which I had stood before the church audience and forgotten the words ...."My kid," Hambro said, "filibustering against going to bed.† (source)
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They threatened a filibuster to defeat the legislation.†
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After the 2008 elections, the Democrats had a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.†
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Budget bills are not subject to filibuster because they are governed under "reconciliation" rules.†
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meaning too rare to warrant focus
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He barely had time to wonder when he'd see it again when they were back George had forgotten his box of Filibuster fireworks. (source)Filibuster = a name
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In Gambol and Japes Wizarding Joke Shop, they met Fred, George, and Lee Jordan, who were stocking up on Dr. Filibuster's Fabulous Wet-Start, No-Heat Fireworks, and in a tiny junk shop full of bro ken wands, lopsided brass scales, and old cloaks covered in potion stains they found Percy, deeply immersed in a small and deeply boring book called Prefects Who Gained Power. (source)
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The firelight glowed over the countless squashy armchairs where people sat reading, talking, doing homework or, in the case of Fred and George Weasley, trying to find out what would happen if you fed a Filibuster firework to a salamander. (source)
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Harry ducked swiftly down behind his cauldron, pulled one of Fred's Filibuster fireworks out of his pocket, and gave it a quick prod with his wand. (source)Filibuster = a name
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They played Exploding Snap, set off the very last of Fred and George's Filibuster fireworks, and practiced disarming each other by magic. (source)
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