Example sentences for: grassroots

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

  • After all, there are several issue-advocacy techniques designed to show members of Congress your "grassroots support."

  • Polling has whittled politics into a science, and money has monstrously deflated the importance of grassroots support.

  • The gambling industry did everything in its power to stop the establishment of this commission two years ago, but Congress and a fervent grassroots anti-gambling group eventually foisted it on the industry.

  • Marin County, located north of San Francisco, California, is distinguished among urban counties in the United States by its relatively small population (250,000 residents), by a median per-capita income of more than 200% that of the nation [ 1 ] , and by elevated rates of breast cancer that were first reported in the early 1990s [ 2 ] . The media has since pronounced Marin County 'the breast cancer capital of the world' [ 3 ] , and heightened community concern has inspired grassroots and scientific efforts to investigate reasons for the high incidence.

  • Virtually every church in the state, the top strategists from both parties, the state chamber of commerce, and thousands of grassroots organizers banded together to defeat poker.


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