Example sentences for: lobbied

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

  • And who has most aggressively lobbied the DOJ and Congress to prosecute Microsoft?

  • Best leaks over the weekend: 1) Documents indicate that John Huang's real-estate holding company funneled Indonesian money into U.S. campaigns ( Washington Post ); 2) Clinton personally lobbied the Democratic National Committee's finance chairman to hire Huang in 1995 ( New York Times ). Pundits wistfully alluded to the 25 th anniversary of Watergate and regretted that the current scandal doesn't measure up.

  • The steel industry had lobbied ardently for the bill, claiming that imports are sapping business and eating jobs.

  • Several years ago, Asian-American groups in California successfully lobbied to keep an essay section out of the Scholastic Aptitude Test.

  • Bob Packwood, who successfully lobbied on behalf of lumber mills and other small businesses for a cut in the estate tax.


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