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 measure is artfully constructed to hide its full cost; big-ticket items, such as repeal of the estate tax and the alternative minimum tax and across-the-board rate cuts, aren't fully phased in until 2009.

  • I believe that the issue of whether and how much to increase SES pay must be discussed within the context of how to make any pay increases variable and performance-based rather than across-the-board and fixed.

  • USAT focuses on the GOP's proposed across-the-board spending cuts, which the other papers covered on Saturday.

  • Instead of the House's 10 percent across-the-board rate cut, it drops the only the lowest rate (from 15 percent to 14 percent), and makes more people eligible for this rate.

  • (The presidential candidates, of course, are still clutching to the across-the-board cuts.)


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