How to Use ballot box in a Sentence

ballot box

noun
  • Like bears stuff their face with fish, our ballot box, too, has been stuffed.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Mace is the first of that group to be tested at the ballot box.
    — Hunter Woodall, CBS News, 10 June 2024
  • Democrats have all but thrived at the ballot box in recent years.
    — Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Feb. 2023
  • So reach beyond the ballot box this year and put some skin in the game.
    — Marie Claire, 30 Oct. 2018
  • The only response that will work is at the ballot box.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 May 2026
  • The rubber meets the road when people go to the ballot box to vote.
    — Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN, 16 Sep. 2021
  • True power lies in the ballot box and the will of the people who vote.
    — Alexandra Levy, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 May 2026
  • For now, the critics have the upper hand at the ballot box.
    — Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Machado had been poised to challenge him at the ballot box.
    — Barney Henderson, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • When the ballot box is gone, there is only the cartridge box.
    — James Pogue, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
  • The biggest challenge can be found at the ballot box.
    — William Garriott, The Conversation, 17 Apr. 2026
  • To vote against a candidate, one placed a black ball in the ballot box.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2020
  • We have been gunned-down at the grocery store and silenced at the ballot box.
    — Essence, 27 June 2022
  • In the same mode, activists need to use the ballot box to check their city leaders.
    — Dallas News, 8 June 2020
  • At the ballot box, in the streets, in schools, in our culture, with our dollars.
    — Hashim Coates, Denver Post, 5 May 2025
  • The other one is like, IDs at the ballot box.
    — Justin Papp, CNBC, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The wisdom of those choices will be tested at the ballot box.
    — Lawrence B. Lindsey, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2021
  • Some of them were even prepared to punish Biden for it at the ballot box.
    — Monica Potts, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Jack thinks the principal check on that power is the ballot box.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2019
  • The change is more about bragging rights than any actual shift at the ballot box.
    — John Wildermuth, SFChronicle.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Rates could be increased over the cap but only if they are approved at the ballot box.
    — Mary Murphy, Twin Cities, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The soapbox, the ballot box, the jury box, and then the cartridge box.
    — CBS News, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The proper place to do that is at the ballot box, however, not in the streets with guns.
    — Star Tribune, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Trump became the main issue Poilievre walked hand in hand with his wife to the ballot box.
    — Rob Gillies, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2025
  • That would save him from embarrassment at the ballot box.
    — Jon Coupal, Oc Register, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Will the measures survive the courtroom and the ballot box?
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 23 Sep. 2025
  • For over a decade, the left wing have failed to do this at the ballot box, and in recent years have come up with a new idea.
    — Anshel Pfeffer, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The parties all face the hurdle of coaxing voters to turn up at the ballot box.
    — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Efforts to fight the development at the ballot box and in court failed to stop it.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2024
  • If the council does not, the issue would go before voters at the ballot box.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2019

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