benches
Example Sentences
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This would vindicate the Fed’s July caution in defying the clamor from the media and financial back benches to raise rates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
I laid out my sleeping bag on one of the benches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Carns explained he believed to take up the offer of a government role would signal his fight for higher military funding was over, when he intends to keep making that case from the back benches.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Witkoff sat in a row of hard wooden benches often occupied by people aiming to make public displays of support for Trump—J.D.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
There were salaams from the benches as people I knew from masjid inquired about Mama and Baba, told me that du'as had been made for their health, and asked if I needed anything.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
