How to Use leftward in a Sentence

leftward

adjective or adverb

• And the trend of the Democrats has been leftward for a while.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 13 July 2019
• The leftward tilt of the debate also owed partly to who was not on the stage.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2022
• Still, the party’s most leftward faction has expressed no desire to pull back.
  — New York Times, 13 Jan. 2022
• Its mission was to push back on what its founders saw as the leftward tilt of American law schools.
  — Kenneth P. Vogel, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2022
• And in a two-party system, an enormous swing leftward matters.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 29 Sep. 2017
• Latinos have continued their slow, steady move leftward, and Prop.
  — James P. Sutton, National Review, 1 Aug. 2019
• It can fairly be described as a leftward movement in the entire party.
  — E.j. Dionne Jr., The Mercury News, 20 June 2019
• This is a major leftward shift in how Democrats would approach migrants at the border.
  — Tara Golshan, Vox, 29 July 2019
• Their out-of-the-gate leftward tilt could have a transformative impact, a new book argues.
  — Tyne Phillips Mocek, Axios, 27 Sep. 2024
• In truth his political success was more a product than a cause of the party’s leftward shift.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 16 Apr. 2020
• Politico analyzes the leftward lean of many of the policies endorsed on last night's debate stage.
  — NBC News, 27 June 2019
• On the one hand, the Ivy Leaguers who do so much of these firms’ work tend strongly leftward in politics.
  — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2023
• And its leaders have spent their time moving the country substantially leftward.
  — Daniel Block, The Atlantic, 29 Apr. 2025
• Meanwhile, a contingent of moderates are worried that a leftward drift could cost the party seats in the midterms next year.
  — Julie Carr Smyth, chicagotribune.com, 4 Aug. 2021
• But some are concerned there is a leftward drift within the evangelical network of churches.
  — Holly Meyer, USA TODAY, 16 June 2021
• Leaving aside the funding challenge, though, the more interesting debate is on what has caused this sharp leftward turn.
  — Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2019
• Even after years of leftward drift, the state’s electorate reaffirmed that ban by a large margin in 2020.
  — Tim Rosenberger, Orange County Register, 7 Feb. 2024
• The dynamics illustrate Democrats’ overall leftward shift on health care.
  — Time, 15 July 2019
• Democrats have been locked out of the governor’s mansion for two decades, but the party is hoping the state’s leftward shift might give them a better chance at the statehouse.
  — Jen Kirby, Vox, 12 June 2018
• Meanwhile, Sanders hasn’t built bridges with the more leftward-leaning members of the party establishment.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 17 Dec. 2018
• On a range of issues, the leftward movement of Democratic politicians and voters appears to have abated.
  — Andrew Prokop, Vox, 15 Oct. 2024
• This lower level of nationalism is part and parcel of an overall leftward tilt among the Gen Z cohort.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 26 June 2019
• But the Democrats’ turnout advantage in the past year’s special elections put a dent in that hope — and the leftward lurch of elderly whites all but eviscerates it.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 10 Apr. 2018
• That kind of unabashed leftward emphasis could help in a presidential primary, when candidates tend to cater to the fringes of their parties.
  — Adam Edelman, NBC News, 23 Jan. 2018
• Colorado has shifted sharply leftward since Gardner won his 2014 election by less than two percentage points.
  — Nicholas Riccardi and Patty Nieberg, USA TODAY, 30 June 2020
• With Smith or Hardesty on board, the council will all but certainly lean further leftward, and a progressive voting block could emerge.
  — Gordon R. Friedman, OregonLive.com, 15 May 2018
• People in the rural center will not take kindly to this leftward tilt and will be in continual tension with the other America.
  — WSJ, 10 May 2021
• Kamala Harris, after all, still paid a heavy price for her leftward swing for the 2020 nomination more than four years later.
  — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 23 May 2025
• But Buttigieg never broadened his breadth of support in a party with a large component of nonwhite voters, and one that has veered leftward since 2018.
  — SFChronicle.com, 1 Mar. 2020
• Voting habits in the 2024 primaries in the WOW counties also indicate a leftward shift.
  — Annabella Rosciglione, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 18 Aug. 2024