How to Use party line in a Sentence

party line

noun

• The House passed the bill 65-32 on mostly a party line vote.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 17 Mar. 2022
• The vote passed along party lines, 70-20, and Democrats walked out in protest.
  — Devon M. Sayers, CNN, 3 Oct. 2023
• He was confirmed to the Supreme Court on a near-party line vote.
  — Paul Farhi, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2022
• But all of the votes on those amendments failed on party lines.
  — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• Texas and who looks poised to tow the party line, no matter that the case is laughably weak.
  — Astra Taylor, The New Republic, 7 Nov. 2022
• The Senate vote came two days after the bill passed the Oregon House on a party line vote.
  — oregonlive, 3 Mar. 2022
• The House voted to override the veto 65-28 along party lines.
  — CBS News, 10 Jan. 2024
• And if Democrats do not cross party lines, the government could shut down.
  — Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
• The vote was largely on party lines and passed with broad support from Democrats.
  — Trisha Ahmed, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2023
• And that's a feeling that stretches across party lines.
  — ABC News, 10 Dec. 2023
• His breaks from the party line have only grown more pronounced.
  — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 13 Apr. 2022
• And, actually, the Democrats tried to get the bill done on a party line basis and do it in a hurry.
  — CBS News, 4 Jan. 2023
• Everyone should brace for this to be the new Chinese party line, Kennedy says.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 8 Mar. 2023
• When they’re dialed in from long distance, the 3-point line becomes a party line.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 May 2022
• To some, not really; some prefer to toe the party line and be considered in the know as to what is true and what is not.
  — Michael Polk, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2022
• The bill passed the Ohio Senate and the Ohio House last month after heated debates, largely along party lines.
  — Anumita Kaur, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024
• Her record didn’t always fit neatly along a party line.
  — Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2022
• The bill passed largely along party lines after all Democrats voted against the measure.
  — Cami Mondeaux, Washington Examiner, 27 July 2023
• Democrats pushed back to defeat the opt-out idea, which failed on a mostly party line vote of 90-56 with three members absent.
  — Christopher Keating, courant.com, 10 Feb. 2022
• First, Kelly was forced to choose whether to side with his maverick home-state colleague or toe the party line.
  — John McCormack, National Review, 9 Feb. 2022
• Voices that cut against the party line are silenced, with fear and sometimes with prison sentences.
  — Dake Kang, ajc, 2 Sep. 2022
• The bill passed last week on a strictly party line vote — Democrats for it, Republicans against.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2021
• The president needs to work with the Yuan, and so Lai will need to cut across party lines to implement policy.
  — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 13 Jan. 2024
• Three months later, the House passed Levin’s resolution by a party line vote.
  — Pablo Manríquez, The New Republic, 15 July 2022
• Opinions vary on why the Nevada bill failed after passing the Senate on party lines.
  — Gabe Stern, The Arizona Republic, 28 Aug. 2023
• That doesn't mean there aren't other members, like Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who could break with the party line and cause headaches.
  — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 15 Nov. 2022
• The vote was 11-10 along party lines, with all Democrats in support and all Republicans opposed.
  — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 20 July 2023
• Along party lines, Republicans (53%) were more likely than Democrats (24%) to express a desire to move out of the city.
  — oregonlive, 7 July 2023
• Given the narrow margins between the two parties in the House, Democrats can only afford to lose three votes if this bill comes down to a party line vote.
  — Annie Grayer, CNN, 23 Sep. 2021
• This reaching across party lines evoked memories of Tony Blair.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024