How to Use Inauguration Day in a Sentence

Inauguration Day

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  • That’s because most of these markets will remain open for bets for weeks and months after the election, in some cases as late as Inauguration Day.
    — Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
  • And so, on that historic Inauguration Day, the first lady wore blue.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The vice president would step in and be sworn in as president on Inauguration Day.
    — Sarah D. Wire, USA TODAY, 18 July 2024
  • But isn’t 14 days before Inauguration Day a little late for that, folks?
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2022
  • And then there's Inauguration Day, but that's beyond this story's scope.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
  • The market starts to price in the new administration as of Election Day, not Inauguration Day.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2024
  • The group prepared for a siege to last through Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, prosecutors said.
    — Anne Ryman, The Arizona Republic, 22 Jan. 2022
  • Not because Trump has disgraced the office of the president, which has occurred on almost an hourly basis since Inauguration Day 2017.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 23 Mar. 2023
  • On Inauguration Day, unemployment was 6.3 per cent, and food banks were sustaining millions of people who had been laid off.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Pak had originally planned to stay on in the position until Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, but resigned weeks earlier than that because of the pressure from Trump.
    — Mary Clare Jalonick, Chron, 7 Oct. 2021
  • That puts the country in a crisis situation two weeks before Inauguration Day.
    — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Former White House officials who stayed until the end described continuing to pack up their offices throughout the final hours on Inauguration Day, when they are obliged to vacate by noon.
    — Michael D. Shear, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2023
  • In 1876, the election result was disputed until just days before Inauguration Day, as some states sent conflicting sets of returns to Congress.
    — G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2024
  • He’s reached Inauguration Day in large part because of the determination of Guatemalan citizens fed up with corruption.
    — Nic Wirtz, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2024
  • There was no guarantee Arévalo would be allowed to take office on Jan. 14, Inauguration Day.
    — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Our exercises included a scenario that tried to predict what might happen on Inauguration Day next year.
    — Barton Gellman, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
  • Although the insurrection fanned the fire of false claims about election security, the former president did peacefully leave the White House weeks later on Inauguration Day.
    — Maya Marchel Hoff, USA TODAY, 30 June 2024
  • That's because Inauguration Day is a holiday for federal employees who work in the District of Columbia area and only happens every four years.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
  • During the weeks after Congress counts the votes and before Inauguration Day, a winning candidate's running mate becomes the president and will be inaugurated in the case of the president-elect becoming unable to serve.
    — USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2024
  • But the familiarity is also why so many folks that were there on Inauguration Day have demonstrated an impressive stickiness.
    — Philip Elliott, TIME, 5 June 2024
  • More probably, 2025 will again see divisions in both houses so slender that the party winning the presidency will again find action difficult, starting from Inauguration Day.
    — Carl Leubsdorf, The Mercury News, 29 June 2024
  • Five days before Inauguration Day, Rogers was arrested.
    — Lauren Hernández, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 July 2021
  • The median age of American presidents on Inauguration Day is 55.
    — Grayson Quay, theweek, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Even the relative calm of Inauguration Day (which Trump skipped) was guaranteed only by a troop deployment that made any substantial disruption impossible.
    — David French, The Mercury News, 5 Oct. 2024
  • That’s important, because Congress could vote before Inauguration Day to lift the disqualification.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Biden halted construction on Inauguration Day in January 2021.
    — Maria Sacchetti, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Plus, there’s a theoretical possibility that Congress could vote to remove a disqualification between the election and Inauguration Day.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The intelligence community now believes that these countries will keep conducting information operations through Inauguration Day on Jan. 20.
    — Sam Sabin, Axios, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Experts say threats could continue even after ballots are counted, with tensions remaining high all the way until Inauguration Day.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024

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