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

At the houseparty in Des Moines, she invoked the doubters.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 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

It was at this haunted houseparty that she made her most brilliant capture� Colonel Olcott, cofounder of the Theosophical Society.

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