How to Use party line in a Sentence

party line

noun
  • The House passed the bill 65-32 on mostly a party line vote.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The vote passed along party lines, 70-20, and Democrats walked out in protest.
    Devon M. Sayers, CNN, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The bill passed the House on in a party line vote and had been stalled in the Senate.
    Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2021
  • He was confirmed to the Supreme Court on a near-party line vote.
    Paul Farhi, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2022
  • But all of the votes on those amendments failed on party lines.
    Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • What does Manchin want from Democrats in order to vote the party line?
    BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2021
  • Texas and who looks poised to tow the party line, no matter that the case is laughably weak.
    Astra Taylor, The New Republic, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The bill passed the Senate along party lines Thursday and in the House on Friday.
    Hannah Gaskill, Baltimore Sun, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The Senate vote came two days after the bill passed the Oregon House on a party line vote.
    oregonlive, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The House voted to override the veto 65-28 along party lines.
    CBS News, 10 Jan. 2024
  • He’s not the only red-state Democrat who might buck the party line too.
    Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 10 May 2021
  • Then the party line to the basket began to slow down for Denver.
    oregonlive, 23 May 2021
  • The tolling bill passed the House mostly along party lines Monday.
    Hannah Gaskill, Baltimore Sun, 19 Mar. 2024
  • And if Democrats do not cross party lines, the government could shut down.
    Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
  • Ideas that run contrary to the party line are suppressed.
    Meenakshi Narula Ahamed, CNN, 1 May 2021
  • The votes to kill the articles and adjourn the trial were along party lines, 51-49.
    Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2024
  • The vote was largely on party lines and passed with broad support from Democrats.
    Trisha Ahmed, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2023
  • And that's a feeling that stretches across party lines.
    ABC News, 10 Dec. 2023
  • The panel approved the bill late Wednesday on a 24-14 party line vote.
    Lisa Mascaro, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2020
  • His breaks from the party line have only grown more pronounced.
    Eric Cortellessa, Time, 13 Apr. 2022
  • And, actually, the Democrats tried to get the bill done on a party line basis and do it in a hurry.
    CBS News, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Everyone should brace for this to be the new Chinese party line, Kennedy says.
    Peter Weber, The Week, 8 Mar. 2023
  • When they’re dialed in from long distance, the 3-point line becomes a party line.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 May 2022
  • Democrats still need 10 Republicans to cross the party line to support the plan.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 15 July 2021
  • An ebullient Smith strayed from the measured party line.
    Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2020
  • The Texas Senate passed the bill in an 18-to-13 party line vote after hours of debate on Wednesday.
    Sara Murray, CNN, 6 May 2021
  • The resolution passed along party lines by a vote of 81-19.
    Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 15 June 2024
  • To some, not really; some prefer to toe the party line and be considered in the know as to what is true and what is not.
    Michael Polk, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2022
  • The tax changes split state lawmakers mostly along party lines when the governor proposed them in his budget earlier this year.
    Calmatters, Orange County Register, 3 Oct. 2024
  • In his statement, Schwarzenegger wrote that being American is more important than sticking to party lines.
    Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2024

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