SESSION in a Sentence

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For SESSION, below is one of 35 sentences:
The Bisbee Democrat introduced a bill this legislative session that would have repealed that law, but it never got a hearing.

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 Meanings and Examples of SESSION
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session
 n.  meeting devoted to a particular activity; time for school to hold classes
Classic Sentence:
1  The county owns the lot now, I hear, and every year there is a session of school.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  The schools were in session from three to five months.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII.
3  We went in this way as far as Rotterdam, and later went to The Hague, where the Peace Conference was then in session, and where we were kindly received by the American representatives.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVI.
4  Parliament was in session, and there was a great deal of gaiety.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVI.
5  The Alabama Legislature was in session in Montgomery at this time.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVII.
6  When the Louisiana State Constitutional Convention was in session, I wrote an open letter to that body pleading for justice for the race.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVII.
7  Yet after four sessions of the library-board she was where she had been before the first session.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
8  Boarding with the Widow Bogart was Fern Mullins, a girl of twenty-two who was to be teacher of English, French, and gymnastics in the high school this coming session.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
9  The matter must have been greatly protracted, and they are holding an evening session.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTION...
10  The docket of the session was very heavy; the president had appointed for the same day two short and simple cases.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTION...
11  The woman saw how surprised he was and said, "Yes, we're allowed to live here as we like, only we have to clear the room out when the court's in session."
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Three In the empty Courtroom - The Student - The ...
12  Last Sunday, for instance, that session went on till the evening.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Three In the empty Courtroom - The Student - The ...
Example Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  The British team showed its paces during a training session in the hotel pool.
2  The Social Democratic Party has vowed to try to stall the bill until the current session ends.
3  The programme was approved at a plenary session of the Central Committee last week.
4  The conference might reconvene after its opening session.
5  The delegates trailed back into the conference room for the afternoon session.
6  It is decided that their proposal will be put before the first plenary session of the congress.
7  He filibustered the proposed law to death in the last session of Congress.
8  The Bisbee Democrat introduced a bill this legislative session that would have repealed that law, but it never got a hearing.
9  The Security Council has called an emergency session to discuss the crisis.
10  Eventually the session came to a merciful end.
11  It seems that the suit has to hang over till its next session.
12  The general session approved the report of the investigation committee.
13  In a late-night session, the United States, which has blocked most of the recent efforts to adopt resolutions on the Middle East, put forward its own proposal and rallied Council support.
14  It was the opening session of the legislature.
15  After two late night sessions, the Security Council has failed to reach agreement.