Example sentences for: across-the-board

How can you use “across-the-board” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The paper says that Republicans quickly derided the plan as a big government strategy that unfairly preempts across-the-board tax cuts.

  • Although the cut is billed as across-the-board, it affects only "discretionary" spending, which is less than half of the estimated $1.

  • The Washington Post leads with a House Republican plan to cut Government spending across-the-board by 1.4 percent.

  • Democrats have successfully (and accurately) painted the across-the-board tax cut proposal as regressive.

  • These worthies lured the red-ink-wary Dole into espousing an across-the-board 15 percent tax-rate cut that even the average voter (not to mention most of Wall Street) could spot right off as a budget buster.


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