houseparty

Example Sentences

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The day was chilly and gray; a spring storm was coming, but the houseparty, hosted by a group that helps women run for political office, was packed.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2019

In “U.S. Go Home,” we follow Martine, a Parisian teen-ager living in a housing project, as she crashes a rich older boy’s houseparty with a friend.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 5, 2019

There was even a houseparty of Whartons, Jameses, and other select souls at the grandiose Villa Medici outside Florence.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 23, 1929

In the ensuing royal houseparty to bring the nervous pair together, this well-laid plan went sadly agley.

From Time Magazine Archive

I remember well his teaching the whole houseparty to play poker—a game till then quite unknown in England.

From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by Strachey, John St. Loe