How to Use shadow cabinet in a Sentence

shadow cabinet

noun

• The shadow cabinet is there to remind voters of what the alternative to the government in power is.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 29 Oct. 2017
• Labour’s Rachel Reeves, the shadow cabinet office minister, said in a statement.
  — Joe Mayes, Bloomberg.com, 21 Oct. 2020
• Speaking on the sidelines of the conference, however, many Labour MPs and members of the shadow Cabinet were reluctant to burst the bubble.
  — Eliza MacKintosh, CNN, 25 Sep. 2019
• Members of its shadow cabinet are in hiding inside Myanmar and in exile.
  — Grant Peck, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Sep. 2021
• Highlighting the depth of the divide, frontbencher Laura Smith and five parliamentary aides resigned from the shadow cabinet before the vote.
  — Thomas Penny, Bloomberg.com, 14 June 2018
• Where Corbyn had to select a shadow cabinet from a narrow pool of hard-core socialists and party loyalists, Starmer has been able to gather his team from across the party.
  — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2020
• That wasn’t hard to arrange: A veritable shadow Cabinet has done time in Israeli prisons.
  — Gregg Carlstrom, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2018
• Starmer was elected Labour leader on Saturday and named his top team of shadow cabinet ministers on Sunday.
  — Stuart Biggs, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
• After the Brexit referendum, two-thirds of his shadow cabinet quit, and 80 percent of his fellow Labourites in the House of Commons expressed a formal no-confidence vote in his leadership.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 29 Sep. 2017
• The shadow cabinet is used to refer to the senior group of opposition MPs who take on policy areas that correspond to the government’s cabinet.
  — Fox News, 25 June 2020
• There was also further consternation when Corbyn appointed Chakrabarti, who had been cast as an independent figure, to the House of Lords and made her a member of his shadow cabinet.
  — James Masters, CNN, 28 Mar. 2018
• The latter three practically form a shadow cabinet, offering regular private advice to the president on immigration, foreign policy and the economy.
  — Paul Farhi, Washington Post, 8 July 2019

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