How to Use democrat in a Sentence

democrat

noun

• But in the past decade democrats have been pushed back again (see article).
  — The Economist, 5 Mar. 2020
• If the democrats take back the house on November 6, there’s a chance that some progress might happen.
  — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Nov. 2018
• In the by-elections to fill four of the vacancies, on March 11th, the democrats suffered a further setback.
  — The Economist, 12 Mar. 2018
• But Pence is, at core, a small-d democrat, not a demagogue.
  — The Tylt, cleveland.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• All six Democrats on the committee voted against the measure.
  — Todd Richmond, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 May 2017
• For Turkish democrats, last spring was supposed to be a moment of triumph.
  — Halil Karaveli, Foreign Affairs, 14 July 2023
• The judge also ruled Racine County chose the stops for its mobile voting van in areas of the city that favored democrats.
  — Benjamin Yount | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 13 June 2024
• Despite that process having dragged on for decades, the social democrats were still able to win elections in the past, however.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2017
• Just three months ago three reputable polls had the democrats up at 15 points in the Generic Congressional Ballot.
  — Fox News, 23 May 2018
• Just six Democrats and three Republicans earned a score of B-minus or better.
  — Eliot Kleinberg and Mike Stucka, miamiherald, 24 June 2017
• Both clung to autocracy and suppressed would-be democrats.
  — WSJ, 27 Mar. 2019
• In Latin America, hardline leaders from both the left and the right threaten to haul the region back to the days when autocrats ruled, and democrats were routinely jailed.
  — Madeleine Albright, Time, 20 Mar. 2020
• Mr Urzúa, a social democrat, was a voice of prudence in the cabinet of the populist leftist president.
  — The Economist, 13 July 2019
• Guillermo Vuletin of the World Bank argues that autocrats fall when economies slump, and the democrats who succeed them take credit for the inevitable recovery.
  — The Economist, 14 June 2018
• And the bread and butter of democrats struggling to entrench liberal democracy in countries across Africa.
  — John J Stremlau, Quartz Africa, 2 Oct. 2019
• The only demographic that was reduced was white democrats.
  — Alander Rocha, al, 26 Jan. 2023
• Liebling is one of five Democrats who have announced bids for the top office which will be alluringly without an incumbent in next year’s race.
  — Rachel E. Stassen-Berger, Twin Cities, 2 Apr. 2017
• In Washington, Manafort worked to promote Yanukovych as a pro-Western democrat.
  — Max Bearak, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2017
• Donnelly is seen as a pretty vulnerable democrat in the 2018 midterm, according to The New York Times.
  — Christianna Silva, Teen Vogue, 9 May 2018
• South German democrats fought a dwindling guerilla campaign.
  — James Robins, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
• Democrats have every reason to make taxes one of their signature issues.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 29 May 2017
• Democrats are promising a bitter fight against the bill, which would repeal major portions of 2010 legislation Dodd-Frank.
  — WSJ, 8 May 2017
• Democrats have asked Kasich to veto the restrictions on Medicaid.
  — Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati.com, 27 June 2017
• At least five Democrats have expressed interest in running in District 2, where incumbent Al Austin has stepped down.
  — Jim Morrill, Steve Harrison and Ann Doss Helms, charlotteobserver, 4 July 2017
• While Democrats have managed to win at the statewide level in Senate and gubernatorial elections, the lone House seat has proven elusive for two decades.
  — Ryan Grim, The Intercept, 26 May 2017
• But at the end of the day, as more-astute Americans came to understand, De Gaulle was rock solid, and a democrat deeply rooted within the best traditions of the Western world.
  — Colin Dueck, National Review, 7 Feb. 2018
• There is nothing more Anti-American than the modern day democrat.
  — Bryan Lowry, kansascity, 27 Sep. 2017
• But there are only six Democrats on the 25-member House Appropriations Committee, about 24 percent of the group.
  — Julia O'Donoghue, NOLA.com, 3 June 2017
• In January, Democrats showed off a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan of their own.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2017
• Macron is both a former investment banker and a moderate social democrat.
  — E.j. Dionne Jr., The Denver Post, 8 May 2017

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024