How to Use electable in a Sentence

electable

adjective

• Cordray is seen as the more electable of the two in the fall.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 8 May 2018
• The mystery is what makes this most unsubtle of elites so electable.
  — Samuel Earle, The New Republic, 23 Feb. 2021
• But not everyone at the start of the caucuses agreed on who was most electable.
  — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2020
• Less than this is not acceptable and should honestly not be electable.
  — Star Tribune, 1 Sep. 2020
• Namely, that neither pundits nor pols define who is electable.
  — Leonard Pitts Jr - Miami Herald, The Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2019
• The bigger question is, if Warren isn’t electable, what woman would be?
  — refinery29.com, 4 Mar. 2020
• As if a majority of votes cast for one highly electable man, could raise the fortunes of millions.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 31 Mar. 2018
• Democratic voters want someone who is electable but what does electability mean to them?
  — CBS News, 30 July 2020
• In late January, 44% of voters said Biden was the most electable.
  — Author: Matt Viser, Sean Sullivan, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2020
• Governors don't have to be smart, apparently, just electable.
  — Byron Tate, Arkansas Online, 27 Mar. 2021
• This has fuelled his claim of being the most electable primary candidate on the ballot.
  — The Economist, 7 Feb. 2020
• The electable female candidate reaches across the aisle with soft, moisturized hands.
  — Claire Friedman, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
• Bolsonaro has tried to moderate his tone for the last year and backed market friendly ideas for the economy to sound more electable.
  — Mauricio Savarese, The Seattle Times, 6 June 2017
• On the trail, candidates cast themselves as the most electable in a district that has radically changed since its lines were drawn a decade ago.
  — Dallas News, 4 Mar. 2020
• Biden's show of force puts him on a collision course with Sanders that will test who Democrats view as more electable in November.
  — Julie Pace, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2020
• And the urgent question is which Democrats are electable at a time when political norms are being tested and twisted.
  — Hunter Woodall, CBS News, 28 Feb. 2026
• The results also captured a significant shift in Democrats' views of the most electable candidate.
  — Author: Matt Viser, Sean Sullivan, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2020
• Yet, if Democrats don’t nominate the most electable candidates, their party will lose big in November.
  — Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2026
• Most Democratic professionals seemed to regard Gillum as clearly the less electable choice.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 29 Aug. 2018
• Cleveland was broadly welcomed back by the Democratic Party, and was thought to be the most electable candidate.
  — Time, 16 Nov. 2022
• Why Joe Biden is the least electable major Democrat for president in 2020.
  — Ella Nilsen, Vox, 15 July 2019
• Overall, more than half of Democratic primary voter picked Biden as the most electable candidate.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2019
• Qualities such as ambition and assertivness, which are lauded in male leaders, are the very things that make women less likeable, and therefore less electable.
  — Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2020
• Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar managed to draw more blood by arguing that Buttigieg isn’t electable.
  — John McCormack, National Review, 20 Dec. 2019
• Booker has portrayed McGrath as a milquetoast centrist, ignoring how a moderate may be more electable in the ruby-red state.
  — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 18 June 2020
• The belief that Biden was the most electable candidate was key to his winning the Democratic nomination in 2020.
  — David Lautersenior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• Meanwhile, the other party's primary has devolved into a knife fight between A, the electable moderate, and B, the fire-breathing extremist.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 21 July 2022
• Cornyn is widely seen as a more electable general electable candidate than Paxton, so GOP leaders are invested in Cornyn’s success.
  — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 3 Dec. 2025
• If the process moves forward, the question would then be whether to back Raman or Rae Huang, a housing activist viewed by some members as more aligned with socialist principles, while others see her as less electable.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2026
• Hong, who had a strong early showing in Marquette University polls, is no stranger to questions about whether a Democratic Socialist is electable in Wisconsin.
  — Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 1 Apr. 2026