How to Use faithless in a Sentence

faithless

adjective

• What’s the rule that one will walk, The other jailed for faithless talk?
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2017
• Restricted access kept the faithful in and the faithless out.
  — National Geographic, 4 Feb. 2020
• Diana was five feet ten inches tall, the same height as her faithless husband.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 25 Sep. 2017
• The Supreme Court ruled July 6 that states can punish faithless electors who go rogue.
  — USA Today, 5 Nov. 2020
• These electors who break that pledge are called faithless electors.
  — Fortune, 4 Nov. 2020
• FairVote found that since the founding of the Electoral College, there have been 167 faithless electors.
  — Caroline Linton, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2020
• Following the ten faithless votes in 2016, more states adopted laws that prevent this.
  — Fortune, 30 Nov. 2020
• The Exorcist — The gold standard of horror distills the battle between good and evil down to its bare essence, a child possessed and faithless priest, maybe right next door.
  — Mark Hughes, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• Some Trump supporters are holding out hope that these faithless electors will swing the vote in the Electoral College to the president over Biden.
  — Elizabeth Thompson, Dallas News, 3 Dec. 2020
• In Colorado the state nullified the vote of its faithless elector while Washington fined their three rogue electors.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2020
• This is where faithless electors could play a role, and the campaign would feel more comfortable adding Pennsylvania to the win column.
  — Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2020
• However, most states have laws which nullify the votes of faithless electors, and there are not expected to be enough to alter the outcome of the election.
  — Grace Segers, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2020
• The objection to the faithless elector was rejected by both chambers.
  — Nicholas Wu, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2021
• And in an ironic twist, Hillary Clinton ultimately lost more votes to faithless electors than Trump did.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 8 July 2020
• For millennial audiences who’ve grown up with Woody and the gang over years of toy stories, the movie may even seem a minor miracle — proof that faith can be kept in a faithless world.
  — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2019
• Medea became Anna, a biochemist with two children and a faithless husband who takes credit for her research.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2020
• Meanwhile, Washington State’s top court ruled that its own faithless electors could be fined for not complying.
  — Saja Hindi, The Denver Post, 21 Nov. 2019
• The seven faithless electors in 2016 made up the largest number of electors voting contrary to their party’s winner in over a century.
  — Elizabeth Thompson, Dallas News, 3 Dec. 2020
• The novel tells the story of a holy warrior and a faithless doctor who try and prevent a powerful demon from establishing hell on earth.
  — Graham Ambrose, The Know, 14 June 2017
• Legal scholars said Tuesday's ruling was the first from a federal appeals court on the issue of faithless electors.
  — Pete Williams, NBC News, 21 Aug. 2019
• There were an unusually high number of faithless electors in 2016.
  — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2020
• At issue in cases from Washington and Colorado is whether states can penalize, or remove, a faithless elector.
  — Greg Stohr, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2020
• Washington accepted the votes of its faithless electors but fined them for violating a state law requiring them to conform to the popular vote.
  — NBC News, 23 Jan. 2020
• However, no election has ever been determined by a faithless elector.
  — National Geographic, 16 Oct. 2020
• The Libertarian Party has only received one electoral vote for president, from a faithless elector in 1972.
  — Elliot Kaufman, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2018
• Fortunately, there has never been a case where faithless electors affected the outcome of the election; the margin of victory in the Electoral College has always been sufficient to prevent this from happening.
  — Bruce Bartlett, The New Republic, 12 Nov. 2020
• Through it all, forgiveness is given by the Countess Almaviva to her faithless husband in a seemingly impossible number of ways, making this the ultimate woman’s revenge in opera.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2021
• Roosevelt eschewed the possibility of faithless electors interfering with the popular vote this year.
  — Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2020
• Colorado passed a law that allowed faithless electors to be replaced immediately with an alternate, and Washington imposed a US$1,000 fine for electors who voted differently from the public at large.
  — Morgan Marietta, The Conversation, 6 July 2020
• Nora Eschenheimer delivers a fiery performance as Princess Imogen, done wrong by the dismal men in her life, from her autocratic father to her faithless husband to a treacherous would-be seducer to an aggressively persistent suitor.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024