How to Use poll in a Sentence

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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.
• Trump’s statewide margin would be on par with what polls showed.
  — Kendrick Marshall, Charlotte Observer, 6 Mar. 2024
• Discuss away—and cast your own votes at our readers’ poll here.
  — The New Republic, 22 June 2023
• This was the only question in our poll that resulted in a tie.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2023
• Of those three, only Mulet reached double digits in a May 2 poll, with 10.1%.
  — Soudi Jiménez, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
• Alabama’s streak of top 10 AP poll appearances ends with a fall to No. 13.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 17 Sep. 2023
• The fact is, polls continue to get election results right the vast majority of the time.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• Haley leads him in polls there in a state that’s a bad fit for him, where the popular Gov. Chris Sununu has endorsed her.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2024
• Christie and some of his fellow candidates are struggling in polls.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2023
• Small wonder the Republicans come out ahead in those polls.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2023
• But Christie, who is basing much of his campaign on a critique of Trump, is not gaining much traction in polls.
  — Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• In a Harris poll carried out for Fortune, four out of five bosses complained that soft skills were the thing Gen Z workers lacked the most.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 29 Jan. 2024
• The entrance polls taken as caucus-goers showed up reveal a party in full thrall to Trump.
  — TIME, 16 Jan. 2024
• But facts and history are immaterial to Trump, and some recent head-to-head polls have shown him ahead of Biden in the 2024 race.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2023
• After an eventful first week of the college football season, there was quite a bit of movement in the AP top 25 poll on Tuesday.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2023
• Only 4% say gave that response in the latest Economist/YouGov poll.
  — Karlyn Bowman, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
• The Tigers have likely sent themselves careening down, or even out of, Tuesday’s new poll with this showing.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 5 Sep. 2023
• In addition, fans will also get the chance to participate in a poll during the show each week, called Polling Party.
  — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2023
• And polls show Biden suffering from soft support among Black and Latino voters.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
• Nevertheless, the Cougars were picked to win the Big 12 in their first year, per a preseason poll voted on by the conference’s head coaches.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
• In this year’s Gallup poll, independents still favored the Israeli side over the Palestinian side, by 49–32.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 16 Oct. 2023
• To nominate an athlete for next week’s poll, email [e-mail] by Monday at 11 a.m. Please include stats and team results.
  — Darren Sabedra, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2024
• Some polls have immigration and the border ranking up near the economy as the top issue for voters.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
• But, should Biden step aside, other prominent Democrats would fare even worse against Trump if the election were held today, according to a new poll.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 22 Feb. 2024
• Now, a new poll reveals most Americans are against the GOP resolution.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2024
• But the fact that Erdoğan enters the runoff as the favorite, having secured more votes in the first round, is something that earlier polls had not predicted.
  — Matt Williams, The Conversation, 26 May 2023
• His poll numbers propelling him to center stage and into his rivals' crosshairs.
  — ABC News, 3 Sep. 2023
• If history is any guide, the Colorado supreme court has likely just handed former president Donald Trump a boost in the 2024 polls.
  — Brittany Bernstein, National Review, 20 Dec. 2023

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• About half of the people polled had tried smoking.
• The conservative candidate polled more than 10,000 votes in the last election.
• Trump still loomed large in the state with the support of 37% of those polled.
  — Laura Doan, CBS News, 19 July 2023
• After the verdict, the judge polled each of the jurors who confirmed that Fahie, 53, was guilty of the four charges.
  — Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2024
• That right there is enough to send the Panthers to No. 2 in the coaches poll to start this season.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 16 Mar. 2023
• The move, as the Verge reported, came after mods polled members.
  — Vulture, 18 June 2023
• Those showrunners who made the 2023 list were polled on a variety of subjects.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Nov. 2023
• The two are polling closely, and it’s led the candidates to really crank up the MAGA pageantry.
  — Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 18 Mar. 2024
• Half of those polled actually just wanted to stay in and watch TV.
  — Tanyel Mustafa, refinery29.com, 13 Dec. 2023
• Three in five of those polled lived with their partner, while 15% shared a child with their partner, and 70% co-owned a pet with their better half.
  — Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2023
• While 44% of those polled by H&R Block were retired, 38% were still working full-time and some had part-time gigs or a side hustle.
  — Hillary Hoffower, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2023
• Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had expected the index to slip to 69.2.
  — WSJ, 18 Sep. 2023
• Only three percent of those polled took more than three weeks away from work to recover.
  — Hannah Baxter, Allure, 13 Mar. 2023
• The number was slightly higher for those polled in Oakland.
  — Kristin J. Bender, The Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2024
• With turnout so hard to predict in an off-year election, even polling that shows the issue passing could very well be missing the mark.
  — Leah Askarinam, ABC News, 1 Nov. 2023
• Despite losing in the Sweet 16, Alabama finished in the final four of the coaches poll.
  — Mike Rodak | [e-mail], al, 5 Apr. 2023
• But in Tuesday’s update, UA was placed No. 1 by two total voters in the coaches poll.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 5 Sep. 2023
• That was lower than the fourth quarter’s 2.6% and below the 2% economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had forecast.
  — Justin Lahart, wsj.com, 27 Apr. 2023
• After the verdict was read, the judge polled the jury, which was unanimous on the decision.
  — Sam Metz, ajc, 31 Mar. 2023
• The Christie campaign says the former New Jersey governor hit the donor threshold to make the stage—and is polling above 6% in two national polls.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 6 Dec. 2023
• The only woman in the race, Haley is generally polling at less than 5%.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 16 July 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
• In January, support for it was polling above sixty per cent.
  — Naaman Zhou, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2023
• The purpose of the primary election is to poll each party on their preferences.
  — Tj Hutchinson, The Denver Post, 27 Feb. 2024
• Almost two-thirds of those polled said the cost of living was their most pressing concern, far ahead of any other issue.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2023
• Pence currently polls in third or fourth place for the Republican primaries, with Trump steadily in the lead.
  — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 2 June 2023
• But, at the moment, none of these people poll better against Trump than Biden does, or have enough money on hand to mount a serious campaign.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
• That Trump is polling ahead of Biden in key swing states only adds to the uncertainty about the trajectory of U.S. policy.
  — Richard Haass and Charles Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 17 Nov. 2023
• Using their phones, attendees were polled about which of the forthcoming plan's values each idea would support.
  — Joseph Flaherty, arkansasonline.com, 5 Dec. 2023
• The blockbuster has yet to receive a grade from audiences polled by CinemaScore.
  — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2023

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