full house

Example Sentences

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McIlroy eventually got over the line at the Masters last year, finally completing the full house and ending a painful 11-year fallow period.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

“As I fell off the stage into the lap of an unfortunate audience member, I said to the full house, ‘I don’t do this,’” he says.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

How can she communicate her truth to a full house while still embodying the character they’ve come to the theater expecting to see?

From Salon • Nov. 23, 2025

A full house of 32,000 at Gaddafi Stadium cheered the home boy Azam when he cracked three successive boundaries off Ottneil Baartman to reach 37th half century -- his first after 13 T20I innings.

From Barron's • Nov. 1, 2025

He put the odds that this committee would pass on the legislation for a vote by the full house at “zero.”

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel