How to Use ballot box in a Sentence

ballot box

noun

• The GOP should be well positioned to clean up at the ballot box.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 8 Nov. 2023
• We have been gunned-down at the grocery store and silenced at the ballot box.
  — Essence, 27 June 2022
• Democrats have all but thrived at the ballot box in recent years.
  — Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Feb. 2023
• Like bears stuff their face with fish, our ballot box, too, has been stuffed.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2022
• For over a decade, the left wing have failed to do this at the ballot box, and in recent years have come up with a new idea.
  — Anshel Pfeffer, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2024
• The parties all face the hurdle of coaxing voters to turn up at the ballot box.
  — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2023
• LaRose wants to increase the threshold at the ballot box for passage from 50% plus one vote to 60%.
  — Jake Zuckerman, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2022
• Efforts to fight the development at the ballot box and in court failed to stop it.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2024
• But successive attempts over the next few decades to increase the levy at the ballot box failed.
  — Christine Wen, The Conversation, 15 Feb. 2024
• On Tuesday, Rhode Islanders are heading to the ballot box.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 4 Sep. 2023
• And Vox is part of a Europe-wide trend of far-right parties gaining support at the ballot box.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 22 July 2023
• But if the next UK prime minister doesn’t step up to the challenge, heading to the ballot box will be all but inevitable.
  — Sofia Lotto Persio, Quartz, 2 Sep. 2022
• And the opposition Labour Party, while now leading in the polls, has been a loser at the ballot box.
  — Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2022
• As did the project of securing access to that ballot box itself—not a new challenge to those gathered on the steps of the Supreme Court.
  — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 22 June 2022
• North Dakota has proven at the ballot box, the citizens voting.
  — CBS News, 12 Feb. 2023
• The criticism shows how the Fed has come under fire from some on the left for the high cost of living that threatens to hurt Democrats at the ballot box this fall.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 4 Oct. 2022
• If voters want safer streets, their only recourse is the ballot box.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 June 2022
• The power of the Kennedy name has also been in precipitous decline at the ballot box for years.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2023
• The result was an outburst of voter fury at the ballot box in 1978, enacting the worst option of all.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• Even here at home, voters didn’t connect the climate crisis to their choices in the ballot box.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Nov. 2022
• Whether that informs their future choices at the ballot box remains to be seen.
  — James D. Long, The Conversation, 13 July 2022
• But over the past 10 years or so, she's been prosecuted twice for trying to help people at the ballot box.
  — ABC News, 21 Oct. 2022
• The machine then prints a paper ballot that records their choices, and that is submitted to the ballot box.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2022
• In 2020, Black people protested George Floyd's death and made their voices heard at the ballot box in record numbers.
  — Tiffany Cusaac-Smith, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2022
• Despite his wins at the ballot box, Abe was no stranger to controversy.
  — Junko Ogura, CNN, 21 Sep. 2022
• Thanks to the 2,500-year-old invention of the ballot box, in most races these votes will actually count and be counted.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2024
• Trump and his allies, meanwhile, hope that his arraignment and the fallout of the trial will only help him at the ballot box.
  — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
• Democrats who want to protect their rights to abortions and gun safety will need to fight at the ballot box, writes columnist George Skelton.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2022
• This is the result of a campaign led by Arab-American activists to use the ballot box to pressure Biden to call for a cease-fire in Gaza.
  — USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2024
• Part of being a democracy is being able to accept defeats at the ballot box — and move on to the next election.
  — Chuck Todd, NBC News, 8 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024