Example sentences for: poll

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

  • The poll in today's WP offers a slightly different picture of the electorate: yes, six in 10 Americans are against impeachment, but if the House votes to impeach, 58 percent of them say Clinton should then resign.

  • (For a primer on "margin of error" and "degree of confidence," see this Slate ".") But the results of an online "poll" in which thousands or even millions of users participate cannot be extrapolated to anything, because those results tell you only about the opinions of those who participated.

  • In conjunction with Clinton's attempt to fine-tune the notion of sexual relations so that it required intercourse, the WP helpfully notes that in a recent Time-CNN poll, 87 percent of the respondents said they consider oral sex sex.

  • This weekend's straw poll in Ames, Iowa, kicked off the 2000 presidential race and sorted out the Republican field.

  • Remember the poll last fall that showed 38 percent of Democrats --let alone the all-important independents--thought less of Bradley when told of his welfare vote?


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