How to Use battleground in a Sentence

battleground

noun

• The $858 million project is still in the planning stage, but officials view the lock as a key battleground.
  — Carolyn Hagler, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2023
• This, despite leaflets dropped by Israel warning them not to reenter the north, the main battleground of the war.
  — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 24 Nov. 2023
• One day after the launch, the campaign released its first 2024 ad in battleground states.
  — Sarah Ewall-Wice, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2023
• These days, the former battleground is a historic site.
  — Nina Caplan, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2023
• And the same pollster found Biden has made up ground in six battleground states that will likely decide the election.
  — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2024
• But the most important ones to look out for are two other battleground states, the states that will decide the election.
  — USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2024
• But Congress is only one of the battlegrounds in the coming debate.
  — Will Henshall, Time, 25 Aug. 2023
• Texas is not a battleground state, so a Texas running mate would not have the benefit of helping flip a state red.
  — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 14 Aug. 2023
• And his edge in battleground states such as Arizona, Georgia, and Nevada is not slight.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 2 Mar. 2024
• In many ways, Waltham — and Moody Street in particular — is the prime battleground for this debate.
  — Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Apr. 2023
• The right’s shift to smaller steps is clear in Georgia and Florida, two battleground states that passed broad new laws a couple of years ago.
  — Alexandra Berzon, New York Times, 8 May 2023
• Just as in United States, classrooms in Spain have become a battleground.
  — Anthony Faiola, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
• Whitmer has been seen as a rising star in the party and enjoyed a Democratic surge in the key battleground state of Michigan.
  — Ryan King, Washington Examiner, 25 Apr. 2023
• But Biden can’t afford to lose many voters in battleground states, several of which were close last time.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
• The trip comes amid a $30-million advertising barrage from Biden’s campaign across all of the battleground states.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2024
• Even more concerning for Democrats is a series of new polls from key battleground states that showed Trump retaining a lead in some places that Biden won in 2020.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2024
• Since then, this area has emerged as a bona fide political battleground.
  — Ben Jacobs, The New Republic, 21 Sep. 2023
• As part of a $30 million ad buy in March, the campaign launched multiple ads targeting Black voters in the battleground states.
  — Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2024
• Michigan is seen as a key battleground state in November.
  — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 28 Mar. 2024
• Foldables becoming lighter and more compact will be a big battleground in the future.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 1 May 2023
• Midterm elections in battleground states have been more likely to trend blue when reproductive rights are at stake.
  — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 25 Apr. 2023
• But now, booming suburbs in Raleigh and Durham could give Democrats an opportunity to flip the 2024 battleground.
  — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 6 Dec. 2023
• The political stakes are high since Arizona is a key battleground state that Biden won narrowly in 2020.
  — Time, 9 Aug. 2023
• School closures and culture wars turned classrooms into battlegrounds — and made the head of one of the country’s largest teachers’ unions a lightning rod for criticism.
  — Jonathan Mahler, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• Florida has been a battleground for teachings about race.
  — Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
• The campaign is building out state-level teams and plans to engage voters on the ground in battleground areas later this year, one official said.
  — Josh Wingrove, Bloomberg.com, 23 Jan. 2024
• Democrats harbor some concerns about Mr. Biden's ability to defeat Trump in battleground states where the margin of victory in 2020 was very small.
  — Allison Novelo, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2024
• In many recent polls, including surveys of the handful of battleground states that are likely to decide next year’s election, Biden is losing to Trump.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2023
• The first ad buy was a small Democratic National Committee purchase in April in six battleground states and on cable.
  — Karl Rove, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2023
• In the last two presidential elections, the winner of the battleground state was determined by less than a single percentage point.
  — Grace Kazarian, CBS News, 20 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 7 May 2024