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
  • 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
  • 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
  • As the social democrats mostly remained silent, many voters shifted either to right-wing populist parties or to more outspoken parties on the left.
    Rick Noack, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Solve the crisis in the Middle East, which has defeated generals and clerics, emperors and kings, democrats and autocrats?
    Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 27 Mar. 2017
  • Chuck Moseley, a democrat in Indiana House District 10.
    Amy Lavalley, Post-Tribune, 6 July 2018

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