woolsack

Example Sentences

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The Lord Speaker chairs daily business in the chamber from his seat on the woolsack and, like the House of Commons Speaker, is expected to be politically impartial.

From BBC • Sep. 5, 2024

Baroness Hayman chairs debates from the traditional woolsack, offers advice on procedural matters and acts as an ambassador for the work of the House.

From BBC • Jun. 28, 2011

At Wembley, he should sit on a woolsack.

From The Guardian • Mar. 24, 2010

Last weekend, with the peers away for their Whitsuntide recess, the Lord Great Chamberlain, who has charge of the Houses of Parliament, ordered the woolsack ripped open, stuffed with real wool.

From Time Magazine Archive

It may be even the mace which rests upon that woolsack.

From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.