How to Use referendum in a Sentence

referendum

noun

• The issue was decided by referendum.
• The referendum on the latter passed by 66.4% of the vote.
  — Marshall Ingwerson, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
• The increase in price is the result of a referendum held on Sunday.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 6 Feb. 2024
• The next step in the referendum process called for the state ballot board to determine the language that voters would see in the polling booth.
  — Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2023
• The Brexit referendum took place in 2016, where millions of Brits cast their vote on whether the country should stay or leave the EU.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 13 Feb. 2024
• Biden hopes to flip that script and win by turning the election into a referendum on Trump.
  — Doyle McManus, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2024
• In the lead-up to the referendum, the three judges presiding over the Little Rock District Court underscored the need for a new courthouse.
  — Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 8 Aug. 2023
• The bill gives the city and county the latitude to impose a sales tax – but only if voters okayed it through a referendum.
  — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2023
• The referendum, which had a low turnout rate, didn’t settle the legal back-and-forth and internal power plays.
  — Haleluya Hadero, Quartz, 8 Apr. 2024
• The industry launched a referendum attempt to repeal the law and defund the council.
  — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2023
• Which brings us to the third goal: making the 2024 election a choice between two flawed candidates, not a referendum on Biden’s first three years.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2024
• The bill will become void if fast-food companies do not withdraw the referendum on AB 257 by Jan. 1.
  — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
• The next year, Mr. Erdogan pushed for a referendum that moved much of the state’s power from the Parliament to the president — meaning him.
  — Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 28 May 2023
• But the notion that the 2024 election is going to be a referendum on companies that want to help people and planet is gone.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2024
• The referendum also builds on work by Indigenous groups in Ecuador.
  — Catrin Einhorn, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• That was enough because 2020 was, in important ways, a referendum on Trump’s term.
  — Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 20 Mar. 2024
• Eighty-seven percent of the union voted in support of the deal in a referendum that ended on June 23, while 13 percent voted against it.
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 June 2023
• Surprisingly, the Everard reopened after the fire and stayed open until the city shuttered it in 1986 as part of a referendum to stem the spread of HIV.
  — Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
• The city of Madison has a page on its website that provides information about the referendum.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 8 May 2023
• The case involved a challenge to a Washington state public records law and the state’s referendum and initiative process.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 8 May 2023
• The books take place nearly a decade apart, capturing both the 2008 economic crash and the Brexit referendum through the eyes of a single family.
  — Josh Zajdman, Vogue, 4 July 2023
• What if 2024 is more a referendum on President Joe Biden?
  — Mark Murray, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2023
• Vladimir Putin is facing a critical referendum on his war in Ukraine.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Mar. 2024
• But despite their efforts, the referendum lost, 55 to 45 percent.
  — Clay Risen, New York Times, 6 July 2023
• That year, the Italian people voted in a referendum about whether the monarchy should continue.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 7 July 2023
• In 2001, voters in Charlotte rejected a referendum that would have built the Hornets a new arena.
  — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2024
• The industry, meanwhile, has agreed to pull a referendum related to worker wages off the 2024 ballot.
  — Adam Beam, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Sep. 2023
• However, voters would get a chance to veto and overturn the law through a referendum at the next general election.
  — Neal Earley, arkansasonline.com, 10 Dec. 2023
• Scott has argued that the November date is preferable compared with the next available dates for a referendum, which fall in March or November of 2024.
  — Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 29 Aug. 2023
• So approval on all five referendum questions—including one that proposed the creation of a new Venezuelan state—was the heavy favorite.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024