Example sentences for: plank

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

  • Days after the GOP's victory in the 1994 elections, Speaker-to-be Newt Gingrich pledged to bring every plank of the "Contract With America" to the House floor, including "an effective, enforceable death penalty; beginning to phase-out the marriage penalty in the tax code; allowing senior citizens to earn up to $39,000 a year without penalty from Social Security; a capital gains cut and indexing."

  • at his friend stuck on the raised end of the plank hops off--his glee to watch that boy drop:

  • For a Reform candidate, he's surprisingly upfront about his pro-life plank, though "Cleaning Corruption Out of Government " is (more suitably) his No.

  • But even the great white hope Lamar Alexander would have faced the same situation Dole had to deal with: a damaging but untouchable GOP abortion plank and guilt by association with the Gingrich Congress.

  • The two threatened to walk out of the Republican National Convention if the GOP modified its uncompromising anti-abortion plank or if Bob Dole picked a pro-choice running mate such as Colin Powell.


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