How to Use stump speech in a Sentence

stump speech

noun

• In his speech, Rogers echoed many of the key hallmarks of a Trump stump speech.
  — Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 17 July 2024
• Those flights are now a staple of his stump speech, usually to cheers from the crowd.
  — Shane Goldmacher, New York Times, 7 June 2023
• That meant DeSantis was deploying his stump speech for the first time — and the second, and the third, and more.
  — Isabelle Schmeler, NBC News, 5 June 2023
• The crowd of about 100 people cheered and Haley gracefully moved on with her stump speech.
  — Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2024
• As part of her stump speech, Haley often tells the story of the moments leading up to the flag's removal.
  — Nidia Cavazos, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2023
• Masters likened the changes to tweaks in a stump speech, the quick pitch to voters that politicians deliver while on the campaign trail.
  — Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 28 Feb. 2024
• Later in the evening, though, Trump leaned on his typical stump speech issues.
  — Stephanie Murray, The Arizona Republic, 19 July 2024
• The president then launched into his standard stump speech.
  — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 5 July 2024
• Leo traveled the country, delivering a stump speech of sorts.
  — Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 11 Oct. 2023
• In Trump’s stump speech, the transitions from his prepared remarks to crowdsourced ad-libs are less jarring.
  — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 4 July 2024
• And Chew’s newest strategy seems to be taking his stump speech on the road, virtually and IRL.
  — Dexter Thomas, WIRED, 1 Feb. 2024
• Until that moment, the crowd met Meijer’s stump speech with polite nods and gentle applause.
  — Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 22 May 2024
• But the Oscar-time grind of bottling the process into a narrative has a way of turning sincerity into a stump speech.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
• Minutes into Trump’s stump speech, gunfire shattered that joy.
  — Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
• In his remarks Wednesday, Biden did just that, though the line seemed awkwardly cut-and-pasted into his standard upbeat stump speech.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2023
• Haley’s criticism of China is a common refrain in her stump speech.
  — Greg Hyatt, NBC News, 1 Aug. 2023
• Reporters looked at each other and then down at their laptops, feverishly typing to get the breaking news out about what was no longer a typical stump speech.
  — Libby Cathey, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2023
• Dillon watched closely when, about 20 minutes into Williamson’s stump speech, a man approached the stage and took the candidate’s hand, quietly thanking her.
  — Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2024
• Perhaps no other line in Ms. Haley’s stump speech draws a more passionate response from audiences than this one.
  — Jazmine Ulloa, New York Times, 30 July 2023
• Both began as a set of claims but became something else, a litany, articles of devotion, a thematic glue to hold together a standard stump speech.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., WSJ, 24 Nov. 2023
• During her stump speech, the former governor often discusses the topic through the lens of transgender athletes.
  — Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2024
• Is this really all about them? To be fair, that line on the cover, which also appeared in Vogue’s fawning profile, was lifted from a stump speech about women’s empowerment.
  — Karen Tumulty, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
• In nearly every stump speech, Ms. Haley describes her husband and his military career as one of her motives for running.
  — Matthew Rosenberg, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
• In the opening moments of the GOP debate, the candidates are managing to circumvent the rule barring an opening statement and contort their answers into stump speech.
  — Annie Linskey, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2023
• That idea also could become part of Trump’s message, namely if others around him urge him to incorporate it into his speech Thursday or his stump speech on the campaign trail, Rowland said.
  — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2024
• He was accompanied by Vivek Ramaswamy, a last-minute guest who, after finishing fourth in Iowa, had repurposed his stump speech as an endorsement.
  — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2024
• One by one, representatives for each presidential candidate stood up to give a stump speech.
  — Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2024
• And as Hammond notes, crypto is not exactly stump speech material.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 26 July 2023
• Ron DeSantis talks about fentanyl in every stump speech, vowing to send the military into Mexico to target cartels.
  — Jennifer Medina John Tully, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023
• Clearly, however, none of those candidates thinks their record on treatment is an asset — or at least, something worth including in a stump speech or their attempt at a 30-second debate soundbite.
  — Lev Facher, STAT, 5 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024