Example sentences for: referendums

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

  • What the high-minded Turnout Bores usually fail to emphasize in their tiresome calls to moral responsibility ("How can you leave all those referendums untouched when children are starving in Russia?"

  • Several states held referendums and primary elections June 2. The headlines: 1) Californians approved a ballot measure to replace bilingual education with one year of training in English.

  • Dublin newspapers Thursday urged a "yes" vote in Friday's two referendums, in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic, on the political settlement for Ulster.

  • Progressive reforms such as initiatives and referendums, like Perot's vague notions of direct democracy, tended to bypass legislatures and to concentrate plebiscitary power in allegedly nonpartisan executives--the president, governors, city managers.

  • But the plural of referendum is referendums, not referenda!”


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