the vote

noun

: the legal right to vote

In 1920, American women won the vote.

Examples of the vote in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

One where Cuomo, Adams, and the Working Families Party candidate could split the roughly Democratic vote, and Curtis Sliwa gets elected mayor, or Cuomo, Adams, and Sliwa split the center-to-right vote, and so Mamdani or Lander get a win with, what, twenty-eight per cent of the vote? —Eric Lach, New Yorker, 8 June 2025

Clark was first elected mayor in 2019 with 61% of the vote. —Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2025

The letter outlined the issues and requested the vote be pulled from the June 3 agenda. —Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 May 2025

The 14-track set, released via Universal Music Spain, generated more than 59% of the vote, beating out other new album releases last week including Alejandro Sanz’s ¿Y Ahora Qué?; Jesse & Joy’s Lo Que Nos Faltó Decir; and Los Tigres del Norte’s La Lotería, to name a few. —Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 27 May 2025

Rhymes for the vote

• afloat
• azote
• banknote
• bareboat
• benzoate
• connote
• cutthroat
• demote
• denote
• devote
• endnote
• footnote