How to Use ballot box in a Sentence

ballot box

noun
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  • At a Tokyo hotel, lawmakers cast their votes one by one in a ballot box on stage when their names were called.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Or whether white progressives who marched in the streets last summer in the wake of George Floyd lost their conviction on the way to the ballot box.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2021
  • As a result, foreign policy matters more at the ballot box than the conventional wisdom dictates.
    — Jeffrey A. Friedman, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Protecting the right of communities of color to make their voices heard at the ballot box is a fundamental part of equal citizenship.
    — Stephanie L. Young, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The burying of personal ambition and vanity in the service of the wider national will expressed at the ballot box is the pillar of any system of self-government by the people.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Inflation has been defeated virtually everywhere except at the ballot box.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune Europe, 8 Oct. 2024
  • At least two videos taken in Kemerovo in southwest Siberia appeared to show a hand emerging from behind a curtain, stuffing multiple votes into a ballot box.
    — Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2021
  • Fearing defeat at the ballot box—and seeking a way to postpone his ongoing corruption trial—Netanyahu has also managed to avoid an early election.
    — Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2024
  • But years of democracy's asphyxiation takes its toll; transformation doesn't come through the ballot box under a government orchestrating the process.
    — Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Mace is the first of that group to be tested at the ballot box.
    — Hunter Woodall, CBS News, 10 June 2024
  • At the end of the day, the 2024 election won't be won online, but at the ballot box.
    — Tommy Barone, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2024
  • The soapbox, the ballot box, the jury box, and then the cartridge box.
    — CBS News, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The GOP should be well positioned to clean up at the ballot box.
    — Noah Rothman, National Review, 8 Nov. 2023
  • We have been gunned-down at the grocery store and silenced at the ballot box.
    — Essence, 27 June 2022
  • Democrats have all but thrived at the ballot box in recent years.
    — Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Like bears stuff their face with fish, our ballot box, too, has been stuffed.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2022
  • For over a decade, the left wing have failed to do this at the ballot box, and in recent years have come up with a new idea.
    — Anshel Pfeffer, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2024
  • When the ballot box is gone, there is only the cartridge box.
    — James Pogue, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
  • Some of them were even prepared to punish Biden for it at the ballot box.
    — Monica Potts, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The parties all face the hurdle of coaxing voters to turn up at the ballot box.
    — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2023
  • And Biden, not Powell, could be savaged at the ballot box for it.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
  • LaRose wants to increase the threshold at the ballot box for passage from 50% plus one vote to 60%.
    — Jake Zuckerman, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Efforts to fight the development at the ballot box and in court failed to stop it.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2024
  • But successive attempts over the next few decades to increase the levy at the ballot box failed.
    — Christine Wen, The Conversation, 15 Feb. 2024
  • There is still only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: at the ballot box.
    — Peter Baker, New York Times, 31 May 2024
  • The ballots were taken inside and dropped in a ballot box.
    — CBS News, 3 June 2022
  • On Tuesday, Rhode Islanders are heading to the ballot box.
    — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 4 Sep. 2023
  • If this passion gap between the bases is still in place come this fall, Democrats are likely to get crushed at the ballot box.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Students participated in a relay race to the ballot box, a mock election with sample 2024 ballots, and a tug of war meant to illustrate how the number of people on each side can sway the outcome of a contest.
    — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Trump has stoked fears about people, including undocumented immigrants, illegitimately gaining access to ballot boxes.
    — Kathleen Hunter, Axios, 24 Oct. 2024

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