How to Use bully pulpit in a Sentence

bully pulpit

noun

• She uses her position as a famous actress as a bully pulpit.
• There was fear of the bully pulpit at one point, but not any longer.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 11 June 2019
• Trump had pushed their cause from the biggest bully pulpit in the land.
  — Lisa Lerer, New York Times, 28 May 2024
• Even the bully pulpit of the White House has proved no match for the Trump reality show.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2022
• And this guy is using his bully pulpit to attack and try to kneecap Goodyear?
  — Robin Goist, cleveland, 20 Aug. 2020
• For one thing, President Trump will be gone and will not have the same bully pulpit to push back.
  — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2021
• Why didn’t Abe use the bully pulpit to shame lawmakers to act?
  — William Pesek, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
• The bully pulpit, plus the midterm elections, could revive them.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 21 Dec. 2021
• Yet the chamber gave him a bully pulpit from which to inveigh against the ills plaguing the nation.
  — Time, 5 June 2018
• Cristobal explained why he’s not had to pull the proverbial lever of using the bully pulpit to get his point across.
  — James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2021
• President Biden should use his bully pulpit to push them to do it.
  — Joseph V. Sakran, Scientific American, 7 Mar. 2021
• How much could Biden move the needle by using his bully pulpit?
  — Maureen Groppe, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Feb. 2023
• At the helm of the government was a president with a bully pulpit, ready to upend things.
  — Liza Mundy, The Atlantic, 29 Feb. 2020
• In the face of Trump’s bully pulpit, the public fled in the opposite direction.
  — Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2021
• The first test will be if the president-elect is willing to use the bully pulpit against his former colleague.
  — Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2020
• There is a loud species of comic who has no muse but grievance politics, who makes the stage a bully pulpit.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021
• At this point, though, Musk has little means to effect change in his own creation apart from taking to the bully pulpit.
  — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2023
• In the midst of what may prove to be the most fateful weeks of his presidency, Biden must seize the bully pulpit of an Oval Office address.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 9 Mar. 2022
• The mayor is a key player, not only for the budgeting power that comes with the job but also the bully pulpit.
  — Alison Dirr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2022
• My concern is, the president has a big bully pulpit ...
  — Jonathan Lemire, BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2020
• His laid-back -- critics might say absent leadership style -- that helped him in 2020 doesn't fill the bully pulpit.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 12 Oct. 2021
• And that is an important part of the presidency—the bully pulpit.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 13 Apr. 2020
• Pressure in the streets, plus arm-twisting in the hallowed halls, plus the power and platform of the bully pulpit might together be enough to put voting rights over the top.
  — Kevin Morrow, The Week, 16 Jan. 2022
• The president also took the chance from the bully pulpit to put pressure on Congress to extend the tax cut -- since it's set to expire in after a year.
  — Sarah Kolinovsky, ABC News, 15 July 2021
• But Biden’s project to dial back the political use of the White House’s bully pulpit hasn’t been without its problems.
  — Brian Bennett, Time, 10 July 2023
• The next president could use the bully pulpit to encourage and embrace more public debate about the United States’ role in the world.
  — Daniel W. Drezner, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2019
• Previous occupants of the Oval Office used the bully pulpit for policy and fundraised on the side.
  — Jake Bernstein, The New York Review of Books, 8 Apr. 2020
• Nick Saban has used a bully pulpit, filibustered and knows the power of polls.
  — Rainer Sabin, AL.com, 6 Jan. 2018
• The agitated sign-off came from an anchor who has rarely, if ever, used the anchor chair as a bully pulpit.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 9 Dec. 2021
• Only the chief executive can use the bully pulpit to persuade the public.
  — Kevin Kosar, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 9 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024