Example sentences for: pork-barrel

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

  • Time 's cover package attacks corporate welfare: "In some ways, it represents pork-barrel legislation of the worst order.

  • "When I see … wasteful pork-barrel spending [while] we have 12,000 enlisted families--brave men and women--on food stamps, yeah, I get angry."

  • He doesn't do pork-barrel: He delivers goodies to Ohio only when Ohio deserves them.

  • Claiming an equal right to pork-barrel undermines that case.

  • Clinton criticized the military bill for including budget gimmicks and pork-barrel projects but said that he could not "allow our national security needs to be held hostage by this budget battle."


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