Sentence examples for gavel called from inspiring English sources

As Adrien Blanchet, who was wielding the gavel, called out the winning bid, saying "Adjugé" (Sold!), a woman stood up like a jack-in-the-box and shouted in French: "Conditional to the National Museums' right to pre-empt".

Then Senator Lodge came forward and pounded hard with his gavel, calling for order.

At the opening of the 112th Congress, outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a liberal San Francisco Democrat, passed him the speaker's gavel, calling the transition a "strong symbol of peaceful democracy".

Activists yelled at the five-person board as the commission's president pounded a gavel, calling for calm.

When the house chairman refused, lawmakers rushed the podium, reached for his gavel and called for his dismissal.

Then, Representative Andy Harris, a Maryland Republican in his first term, banged the gavel and called it a day.

So matters stood when at 10 19 this morning Senator Lodge let fall his gavel and called the third session of the fourteenth Republican National Convention to order.

Feinstein used her gavel to call for order and asked Graham and Flynn to be civil in exchanges.

At a little after 7 on a recent evening, the mayor of Bismarck, N.D., banged a gavel to call the city's board of commissioners to order.

A HUSH descends on the courtroom as the judge pounds his gavel and calls his first case: The People vs. Missy DeMeanor.

In June 2015, writer Bonnie Greer removed herself as president in frustration with the infighting, in the midst of a general meeting so raucous she used her shoe as a gavel to call order.