Sentence examples for seat span from inspiring English sources

Democrats competing for the seat span the ideological spectrum.

No constituencies will cross national borders but critics say the shake-up will create seats spanning traditional county and local boundaries.

Robert Woolfolk's legs were too long to unfold in the span between seat and pedals, so he rode with his knees doubled and knobbing up near the handlebars, like a clown on a tricycle.

The looting and levelling in 2003 were merely the latest attack on the shrinking fabric of the city, seat of a world-spanning empire which had given its name to denote greatness, untold wealth and ostentation, not to mention decadence and debauchery (the Oxford English Dictionary called it "the mystical city of the Apocalypse").

" The Democrats point out that because the seats represent two Senate districts that span several minority and low-income neighborhoods, minority voters in particular will lose out.

The seat of an empire that once spanned the world would no longer control the top third of its own little island.

Europe's been many things to Americans, over the shared span of their histories – a seat of both liberty and oppression, power and corruption, of art, literature, even language itself.

That extra span makes an already roomy back seat downright cavernous.

The bridge was a two-span bridge seated on two abutments and one single column-bent (see Fig. 3).

In these divided and divisive days in our country, this philosophy of civic agency has inspiring exemplars, historical and contemporary, spanning diverse seats at the political table.

She said that during the flight, passengers would be able to leave their seats and experience weightlessness, and their view will span 800 miles in any direction and include the curvature of the Earth and the blackness of space.