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
• 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
• After the 2020 murder of George Floyd, as the country convulsed with protests over policing, Abdullah found herself with a bully pulpit and used it.
  — Jamil Smith, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2024
• Free speech advocates had urged the court to use the case to draw an appropriate line between the government’s acceptable use of the bully pulpit and coercive threats to free speech.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 26 June 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024