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Example sentences for: elect

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

He had a heart attack while working out on his exercise bike, just three weeks before he was to turn over his office to Gov.-elect Jeb Bush.
Poppy was dutiful in pursuit of office, compiling the requisite experience almost mechanically, adding line after line to his résumé until America had no choice but to elect him president.
Just as government in those cases could not elect to use a broadcasting network or a college publication structure in a regime which prohibits speech necessary to the proper functioning of those systems, see Arkansas Ed.
Pope John Paul II picked 22 new cardinals . He has now picked 106 of the 123 cardinals who will elect the next pope.
Of course, the chief objection to term limits has always been that the people should have the right to elect whoever they want to represent them in Congress, including someone they have elected repeatedly before.