How to Use ballot box in a Sentence

ballot box

noun
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  • The rubber meets the road when people go to the ballot box to vote.
    — Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN, 16 Sep. 2021
  • The soapbox, the ballot box, the jury box, and the ammo box.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Missourians are facing the decision of their lifetimes at the ballot box this week.
    — Brandy Meeks, National Review, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Hey, uh, here’s a timely reminder: make good choices at the ballot box on Tuesday, America.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Inside, voters went through the process of checking in, receiving their ballots, filling them out in a booth, and dropping them into the ballot box.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2021
  • Progressive activists with ideas unlikely to prevail at the ballot box are directing their efforts at big-business boardrooms.
    — Richard Morrison, National Review, 3 Sep. 2021
  • But Murphy said the ferry and other Bay Area transit operators could look to the ballot box to help fund service, long-term.
    — Ricardo Cano, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Sep. 2021
  • The clear dissonance between Norway’s economic model and its environmental aspirations is about to be put to the test at the ballot box.
    — Ian Bremmer, Time, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Although Californians will make their voices heard at the ballot box, candidates on both sides are warning of potential legal challenges that could follow.
    — Lalee Ibssa, ABC News, 14 Sep. 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
  • The mob demanded that the judge surrender the ballot box.
    — al, 16 Jan. 2022
  • And Vox is part of a Europe-wide trend of far-right parties gaining support at the ballot box.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 22 July 2023

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