How to Use ballot box in a Sentence

ballot box

noun

• Dictators are not supposed to be ousted at the ballot box.
  — Nick Roll, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2021
• In some precincts, Roberts had ensured that the ballot boxes arrived pre-stuffed.
  — Sasha Issenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
• Until then, the struggle about what to do in the meantime increasingly may take place through the ballot box.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Dec. 2021
• Democrats and teachers who argue that parents aren't qualified to have input on their children's education will lose at the ballot box.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 19 Nov. 2021
• That threshold is important for two reasons, to avoid a veto and block a referendum effort to overturn a decision at the ballot box.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Nov. 2021
• The idea here is clear: The emergence of Omicron is a political gambit by Democrats designed to aid them at the ballot box.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 29 Nov. 2021
• Projecting their decision at the ballot box is almost impossible, as are the number of blank votes and no-shows — don’t forget the pandemic.
  — Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
• Voters hold our leaders accountable at the ballot box, and our system needs to have the necessary transparency for our democracy to work effectively.
  — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
• If residents of North Carolina or Georgia face obstacles at the ballot box, turnout could be deflated.
  — Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2024
• Anti-vax: Anti-vaccine activists are targeting the ballot box, kicking off a process that could end in a statewide vote in their latest effort to change state law to ban vaccine mandates.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 7 Dec. 2021
• There is more programming ahead about the importance of battleground states, how to get others in the community to vote, the rules for early voting and how to ensure your rights are not obstructed at the ballot box.
  — Alphonso David, Essence, 1 Oct. 2024
• Mace is the first of that group to be tested at the ballot box.
  — Hunter Woodall, CBS News, 10 June 2024
• At the end of the day, the 2024 election won't be won online, but at the ballot box.
  — Tommy Barone, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2024
• The soapbox, the ballot box, the jury box, and then the cartridge box.
  — CBS News, 18 Mar. 2022
• 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
• When the ballot box is gone, there is only the cartridge box.
  — James Pogue, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
• Some of them were even prepared to punish Biden for it at the ballot box.
  — Monica Potts, ABC News, 16 Aug. 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
• And Biden, not Powell, could be savaged at the ballot box for it.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
• 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
• There is still only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: at the ballot box.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 31 May 2024
• The ballots were taken inside and dropped in a ballot box.
  — CBS News, 3 June 2022
• On Tuesday, Rhode Islanders are heading to the ballot box.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 4 Sep. 2023
• If this passion gap between the bases is still in place come this fall, Democrats are likely to get crushed at the ballot box.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 10 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024