Example sentences for: tacking

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

  • Now that Clinton staff attorney Lanny Breuer is invoking executive privilege to keep from having a Starr grand jury sit-down, the WP usefully documents the White House's legal tacking by quoting White House counsel Charles Ruff's comments from two months ago: "We have no intention of asserting the privilege, executive privilege, in any situation that I'm aware of."

  • "Few See How Clinton Effort Will Bring Results," scoffed the New York Times . Pundits theorized that Clinton is triangulating back to the left after tacking to the right on welfare reform and the budget deal.

  • Inflating him was as simple as tacking the augmentative suffixes -one or -oni --as in Giacomoni --to the root name or its variation to get big James.

  • They were at least in part the reaction of a decent and thwarted person tacking out in search of love and eminence.

  • Earmarking, the process of tacking pork-heavy provisions to spending bills, is on the rise in Washington, according to the Post.


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