How to Use political football in a Sentence

political football

noun

• The facts did not matter to those using the board and my appointment as a political football.
  — Nina Jankowicz, Foreign Affairs, 7 Feb. 2024
• History Ending the car tax has been a political football for more than 30 years.
  — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2024
• There’s a phrase for that in Washington: a political football.
  — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 July 2023
• President Trump got involved and the whole place became a kind of political football.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Nov. 2020
• But his death became a political football whose uses were difficult to foresee at the time.
  — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2024
• Education has also been a political football recently, and what that looks like is going to vary from state to state.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2023
• Their idea of a new school at UNC, separate from the rest of the university, will become a political football, tossed back and forth as regimes change in Raleigh, while the reputation of the oldest state university in the land is trashed.
  — WSJ, 22 Feb. 2023
• It was extended to government debt broadly in 1939, and thus became a political football.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 13 May 2023
• Instead, over the years, lawmakers have often used the polarizing issue as a political football.
  — Gillian Brassil, Sacramento Bee, 4 June 2024
• Republicans and Democrats must work together to solve the funding problems for Social Security and Medicare, and stop using them as a political football.
  — WSJ, 24 Feb. 2023
• But this policy may rebound on the Pakistani government, succeeding only in causing further chaos—all while turning human beings into a political football to be flung across the border.
  — Aqil Shah, Foreign Affairs, 9 Jan. 2024
• The conservative news and commentary channel Newsmax will return to the lineup of satellite giant DirecTV, nearly two months after a carriage dispute broke out and became a political football.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2023
• The film has the potential to become a political football over Barbies of varying ethnicities, body types, disabilities and identities; a childlike depiction of a world map has already led to its being banned in Vietnam.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
• The core problem is that border enforcement has become a political football rather than a law-enforcement and national-security problem.
  — David Ignatius, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
• Unfortunately, this issue has been allowed to morph into a political football.
  — Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
• Yet the November cut remains and funding for cultural organizations remains a political football in the budget debate.
  — Coco Killingsworth, New York Daily News, 26 Apr. 2024
• Alabama representatives in Congress have alleged Biden has made the selection process a political football.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 26 Jan. 2023
• Multi-year operational budgets for government agencies will lower the costs of these contracts and prevent politicians from using government services as a political football.
  — Gillian Brassil, Sacramento Bee, 5 Feb. 2024
• The decision will surely become a political football during this wild political season.
  — Robert Litan, Foreign Affairs, 16 Mar. 2016
• Progressive councilors and advocacy groups warned that Mattapan was becoming a political football.
  — Emma Platoff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2023

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024