How to Use poll in a Sentence

poll

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• A recent poll shows a decrease in the number of teenagers who smoke.
• The polls are open until 8:00 tonight.
• The magazine conducted a poll to find out the favorite 100 movies of all time.
• But this is your poll, not mine.
  — Greg Cote april 17, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2026
• Not sure if that was in your poll.
  — ABC News, 3 May 2026
• Many polls have shown that to be true.
  — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
• There's been a lot of polls on this.
  — ABC News, 8 Feb. 2026
• That poll did not ask about Collins.
  — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
• An election with no poll sites?
  — Miami Herald, 21 Mar. 2026
• By then the Gallup poll had us in a dead heat.
  — Chris Matthews, New York Daily News, 11 June 2026
• The race went three weeks without a new poll.
  — Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2026
• Porter led in some early polls of the race last year.
  — Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 3 June 2026
• Right now, polls show a few front-runners.
  — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 29 May 2026
• What went wrong with the 2016 polls?
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2026
• Readers will now pick the best of the best in our poll.
  — Darla Rivera, Oklahoman, 9 Feb. 2026
• Trump’s statewide margin would be on par with what polls showed.
  — Kendrick Marshall, Charlotte Observer, 6 Mar. 2024
• Why did polls get elections so wrong — and what could be done about it?
  — Suzy Khimm, NBC news, 13 Feb. 2026
• For all her faults, Harris knows how to read a poll.
  — Keith Naughton, The Washington Examiner, 14 Mar. 2026
• To be sure, polls are only a snapshot in time.
  — David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 27 Feb. 2026
• This is broadly in line with other polls.
  — Niall Stanage, The Hill, 13 Mar. 2026
• In the recent spring poll, 29% said that.
  — Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026
• No other poll has had these kinds of ructions.
  — Keith Naughton, The Washington Examiner, 14 Mar. 2026
• These numbers are in line with recent polls.
  — Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 10 Sep. 2025
• Well, first off, no conflict ever polls well.
  — CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
• This isn’t a one-man poll on my opinion or somebody else’s.
  — Greg Cote june 19, Miami Herald, 19 June 2026
• Discuss away—and cast your own votes at our readers’ poll here.
  — The New Republic, 22 June 2023
• The Finns might put this poll up on the wall in their dressing room.
  — Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
• This morning, results from our brand-new poll.
  — ABC News, 3 May 2026
• That's in a Gallup poll released in March.
  — Scott Pelley, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
• But polls have shown Jones way ahead of Miyares.
  — Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025

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• About half of the people polled had tried smoking.
• Six Democrats polled at 5% or less.
  — Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 10 Mar. 2026
• Adams has been the odd man out of the three and has polled the weakest.
  — Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 13 Sep. 2025
• That’s way up from 45% of those polled 20 years ago.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2026
• Five other Democrats polled at 5% or less.
  — Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 13 Mar. 2026
• Trump still loomed large in the state with the support of 37% of those polled.
  — Laura Doan, CBS News, 19 July 2023
• One thing Moulton has going for him is polling.
  — Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 15 Oct. 2025
• Once the moments were picked, a wider group of staff were polled on which photos to use.
  — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 26 Feb. 2026
• Most analysts polled have a buy rating.
  — Alex Harring, CNBC, 1 June 2026
• Only three percent of those polled took more than three weeks away from work to recover.
  — Hannah Baxter, Allure, 13 Mar. 2023
• The workers polled do not want to stop the technology.
  — Karen Kornbluh, Fortune, 20 May 2026
• Bianco is polling at about 11%, while Porter is at about 10%.
  — James Ward, USA Today, 15 May 2026
• Economists polled by Reuters had pegged growth at 15%.
  — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 9 June 2026
• Economists polled by Reuters had pegged growth at 15%.
  — Sean Conlon,lee Ying Shan,lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 8 June 2026
• The survey polled the top 20 HSA providers.
  — Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2025
• The survey polled the top 20 HSA providers.
  — Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea,greg Iacurci, CNBC, 29 May 2026
• Another adviser to Noem told me that her team had not polled the race.
  — Michael Scherer, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2026
• Those words probably would poll well and make salable talking points in local town halls.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
• While the responses were as diverse as the teens polled, a few distinct trends emerged from the data.
  — Andrew McGowan, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
• Only about one-third of those polled say their tax burden is appropriate.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
• The move, as the Verge reported, came after mods polled members.
  — Vulture, 18 June 2023
• In general, though, many kids will be able to sleep in, since school campuses are often polling places.
  — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2023
• Those polled took part in face-to-face interviews with a structured questionnaire.
  — Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
• That depends on who Cracker Barrel is polling.
  — Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
• Economists polled by Dow Jones are looking at a drop of 4%.
  — Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 25 June 2026
• Among the plans is creating a research hub to poll voters and test messages that resonate.
  — Aarón Torres, Dallas Morning News, 2 Mar. 2026
• Half of those polled actually just wanted to stay in and watch TV.
  — Tanyel Mustafa, refinery29.com, 13 Dec. 2023
• On durable goods, economists polled by Dow Jones are calling for a 2% drop.
  — Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 17 Feb. 2026
• And by the way, is polling at 89%, including Democrats, 89%.
  — Dallas Morning News, 25 Feb. 2026
• Biden polled miserably on the economy, too.
  — David Goldman, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025