Example sentences for: votes

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

  • These eight "anti-environment" Senate votes were: a vote against de-funding the Synfuels Corp.; a vote in favor of constructing a highway along the boundary of a wilderness park in Hawaii; a vote against creating a new victim's compensation program under the Superfund program; a vote to cut funding for the Environmental Protection Agency; two highway bill votes; a vote against banning new billboard construction along federally subsidized highways; and a vote against a moratorium on issuing federal patents for hard-rock mining on public lands out west.

  • The votes against extending Superfund spending and effecting a wholesale ban on billboards was clearly good.

  • That leaves eleven anti-environment" votes whose connection to powerful Tennessee interests are unclear.

  • There is more of a question about how many crossover votes this will get in the full House.

  • Ross Perot won 19 million votes in 1992, but now the party has lost all touch.


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