How to Use candidacy in a Sentence

candidacy

noun

• He withdrew his candidacy after the scandal damaged his reputation.
• The board candidacy of Iger, for one, got 96.7% of shares cast.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 18 Jan. 2024
• The deadline to file for school board candidacy is Feb. 9.
  — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 6 Sep. 2023
• During her candidacy last year, Karamo promised to lead the state through the 2024 election.
  — USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2024
• The pair recorded the message in support of Joe Biden’s candidacy.
  — Stephanie Kaloi, Peoplemag, 15 Nov. 2023
• There is more at stake in this election than my candidacy.
  — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Baltimore Sun, 14 Feb. 2024
• The campaign feels less need to define him or his candidacy for voters this time around.
  — Mike Allen, Axios, 22 Sep. 2024
• But by then, even many of those around Mr. Scott believed his candidacy had already run its course.
  — Maya King, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• He could not be reached for comment about his candidacy.
  — John Byrne, Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2023
• There was a time when scandal, the whiff of scandal, or even a simple gaffe was the kiss of death for a presidential candidacy.
  — ABC News, 3 Sep. 2023
• The news comes a day after Christie allies launched a super PAC to support his candidacy.
  — Rick Klein, ABC News, 31 May 2023
• The poll saw the lead Biden (who had not yet withdrawn his candidacy) had among such voters drop thirty-two points, down to sixteen points from forty-eight in 2020.
  — Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
• The court's order was filed 1:34 p.m. Tuesday, around the time the commission started to discuss the challenges to Rust's candidacy.
  — Brittany Carloni, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Feb. 2024
• But there is another year to debate his candidacy and Wright is happy to have it.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 13 June 2024
• My candidacy for Cleveland Clerk of Courts was based on shaking up the complacency that has set in over many years.
  — Molly Walsh | [e-mail], cleveland, 29 Aug. 2023
• That blows a hole in the only real challenge to Mark Jordan’s candidacy.
  — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2024
• History shows that these candidacies tend to fade by the time voters cast ballots.
  — Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
• Others were more nuanced in making the case for their candidacy.
  — Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 15 May 2024
• Banks is the only person to announce his candidacy so far.
  — Arika Herron, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Feb. 2023
• Image The polling shows many of the conditions for a successful third-party candidacy could be in place.
  — Nate Cohn, New York Times, 4 May 2024
• The deadline to file for candidacy in the New Hampshire primary is Friday.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
• Knuth was the first candidate to throw his hat in the ring, announcing his candidacy in January.
  — Jacob Scholl, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
• Milroe did nothing to hurt his candidacy for the full-time role Saturday night.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 3 Sep. 2023
• He’s expected to start against the Astros this weekend in Houston, which should help his All-Star candidacy.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 10 June 2024
• And the people who have doubts about his candidacy better have a damn good answer for who is going to beat Donald Trump other than Joe Biden.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2023
• The move comes after Venezuela’s highest court upheld a ban on Machado's candidacy.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 27 Jan. 2024
• In the end, McCarthy managed to secure support for his candidacy.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
• Boal had a fondness for Pence but felt that Trump’s loyalists reviled him too much for his candidacy to succeed.
  — Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2024
• Trump has made his own push to win over Black voters, participating in a roundtable event in Detroit where Black Republicans promoted his candidacy.
  — Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 16 Oct. 2024
• But Trump ran a similar campaign in the 2016 election, announcing his candidacy by labeling immigrants rapists and murderers, and won.
  — Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024