How to Use rightward in a Sentence

rightward

adjective or adverb

• Can the rightward forty-five per cent of the country at this point be talked to?
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 29 June 2021
• Even with the sharp rightward turn of the U.S. Supreme Court over the past few years, this is not really an edge case.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 23 June 2024
• Much of that rightward shift has been propelled by Mr. Trump.
  — New York Times, 9 June 2022
• And with the Supreme Court’s rightward shift, many in the movement sense their moment has arrived.
  — Sarah Varney, Quartz, 5 Aug. 2021
• Many of the people rich enough to own an N.F.L. team are on the rightward side of the political spectrum.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2017
• The rightward shift in the Israeli government has raised eyebrows abroad and at home.
  — Rob Picheta, CNN, 29 Dec. 2022
• The extreme rightward shift of the Supreme Court has already begun to erode the court’s public standing.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2022
• On the left, many feel betrayed by Mr. Macron’s rightward tilt over the course of his presidency.
  — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
• The women worried about the school board, but also saw the issues there as part of a broader rightward turn in the county.
  — Washington Post, 6 May 2022
• Texas' rightward push was clear in ways beyond the party platform.
  — Will Weissert, ajc, 21 June 2022
• Voters in the past have turned rightward for solutions.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 27 June 2018
• Yet Justice Kennedy closed his third decade on the court in a decidedly rightward pose.
  — The Economist, 30 June 2018
• In the Trump era, the rightward edge of the Catholic world had few qualms about embracing Christian nationalism.
  — Katherine Stewart, The New Republic, 9 Mar. 2021
• The labor and consumer markets will dictate whether this rightward shift is worth the trouble.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 16 June 2022
• With the Supreme Court’s rightward shift, there is a heavy cloud hanging over the administrative state.
  — Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2022
• Juszczyk did the same, winding back after an initial rightward step to block the left-side defensive end.
  — John Hirschauer, National Review, 2 Feb. 2020
• Sure, the 2024 election is still a ways away, and the rightward march of the GOP risks damaging all of its candidates with a broader electorate.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 3 Feb. 2022
• That means resisting the rightward pull from the most conservative activists in the GOP.
  — Dallas News, 19 Dec. 2022
• Already some on the rightward fringes of our politics have sought to take matters into their own hands.
  — Damon Linker, TheWeek, 4 Dec. 2020
• Those feelings have contributed to a slight rightward shift.
  — Ross O'Keefe, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Sep. 2024
• That is largely because the more rural parts of the district that stretch north and west of Green Bay have shifted distinctly rightward over the past decade.
  — Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2024
• In her votes and in her voice on and off the bench, Justice Sotomayor has unflinchingly called out the Court’s rightward turn, and is confronting it.
  — David Fontana, Vox, 6 July 2018
• Within a few years after 1968, the rightward shift of working-class whites was obvious.
  — USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2018
• Conversely, Macron has moved to the right on some issues to try to steal some of Le Pen’s thunder and keep abreast of a general rightward shift by the French electorate.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2022
• The rightward slant of these platforms appears to have boosted their audiences.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Europe, 3 July 2024
• The president has also named two justices to the Supreme Court, cementing its rightward shift.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 24 June 2020
• Is this rightward shift in young men, then, just what happens when the center of the Democratic Party spends a decade trashing its populist wing?
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
• In response to Taft's rightward drift, Roosevelt formed the progressive Bull Moose party.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 26 Aug. 2023
• Her book charts the rightward shift among the US hierarchy which has been combined with opposition to Francis.
  — Christopher Lamb, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
• But a few congressional seats flipped from Republican to Democrat — which makes Mitchell wonder if any rightward shift is a blip or overstated.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024