How to Use party line in a Sentence
party line
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The House passed the bill 65-32 on mostly a party line vote.
—Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 17 Mar. 2022
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The vote passed along party lines, 70-20, and Democrats walked out in protest.
—Devon M. Sayers, CNN, 3 Oct. 2023
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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
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He was confirmed to the Supreme Court on a near-party line vote.
—Paul Farhi, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2022
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But all of the votes on those amendments failed on party lines.
—Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
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What does Manchin want from Democrats in order to vote the party line?
—BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2021
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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
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The vote was largely along party lines, with a tally of 52 to 48.
—Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2025
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The bill passed the Senate along party lines Thursday and in the House on Friday.
—Hannah Gaskill, Baltimore Sun, 19 Mar. 2024
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The Senate vote came two days after the bill passed the Oregon House on a party line vote.
—oregonlive, 3 Mar. 2022
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The House voted to override the veto 65-28 along party lines.
—CBS News, 10 Jan. 2024
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He’s not the only red-state Democrat who might buck the party line too.
—Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 10 May 2021
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Then the party line to the basket began to slow down for Denver.
—oregonlive, 23 May 2021
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The tolling bill passed the House mostly along party lines Monday.
—Hannah Gaskill, Baltimore Sun, 19 Mar. 2024
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And if Democrats do not cross party lines, the government could shut down.
—Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
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The Senate voted 53-47 along party lines to return Vought to the job.
—Zach Halaschak, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Feb. 2025
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Ideas that run contrary to the party line are suppressed.
—Meenakshi Narula Ahamed, CNN, 1 May 2021
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The votes to kill the articles and adjourn the trial were along party lines, 51-49.
—Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2024
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The vote was largely on party lines and passed with broad support from Democrats.
—Trisha Ahmed, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2023
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And that's a feeling that stretches across party lines.
—ABC News, 10 Dec. 2023
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The panel approved the bill late Wednesday on a 24-14 party line vote.
—Lisa Mascaro, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2020
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The bill passed mostly along party lines, with Democrats in favor.
—oregonlive.com, 30 June 2019
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His breaks from the party line have only grown more pronounced.
—Eric Cortellessa, Time, 13 Apr. 2022
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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
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Yet some worry that it could be used to force companies to toe the party line.
—Bloomberg.com, 8 Dec. 2019
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Everyone should brace for this to be the new Chinese party line, Kennedy says.
—Peter Weber, The Week, 8 Mar. 2023
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When they’re dialed in from long distance, the 3-point line becomes a party line.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 May 2022
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Members of Congress are all too likely to vote the party line.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2019
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Few claps for attacks on Ukraine Trump’s least popular segment of the speech, across party lines, was his critique of Ukraine in its fight against Russia’s invasion.
—Michael Wilner, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2025
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Even if House Republicans can approve the six-month funding measure along party lines, a 60-vote threshold in the Senate means the measure would require the backing of at least seven Democrats to be approved in the upper chamber.
—Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2025
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