Example sentences for: postpone

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

  • Example: "It is dangerous for an American president to launch a military strike, however justified, at a time when many will conclude he acted only out of narrow self-interest to forestall or postpone his own impeachment" ( Wall Street Journal editorial).

  • The New York Times , Los Angeles Times , and Washington Post each lead with the latest development in the White House's attempt to stave off a Senate defeat of the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty--President Clinton's submission of a letter to Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott asking him to postpone his planned floor vote on the treaty.

  • A related story says Newt Gingrich was right to postpone tax cuts and does not deserve the blame that's being heaped upon him.

  • Miscellany: NATO formally admitted Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic . The United States successfully pressured its allies to postpone a similar decision on Romania and Slovenia until 1999.

  • Better to take the bitter medicine now--to let unemployment rise, to force companies to purge themselves of redundant capacity--than to postpone the day of reckoning.


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