How to Use bully pulpit in a Sentence

bully pulpit

noun
  • She uses her position as a famous actress as a bully pulpit.
  • There was fear of the bully pulpit at one point, but not any longer.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 11 June 2019
  • Trump had pushed their cause from the biggest bully pulpit in the land.
    — Lisa Lerer, New York Times, 28 May 2024
  • This is not speaking from the bully pulpit.
    — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Bass also has her own bully pulpit.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Most people don’t have the resources or the bully pulpit of a pope.
    — Sammy Roth, Mercury News, 27 Apr. 2025
  • The bully pulpit, plus the midterm elections, could revive them.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Guest had a bully pulpit and the vocabulary and drive to use it.
    — David Whitley, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Biden can use the bully pulpit to show how badly such arguments miss the point.
    — Stephen Wertheim, Foreign Affairs, 25 Jan. 2021
  • President Biden should use his bully pulpit to push them to do it.
    — Joseph V. Sakran, Scientific American, 7 Mar. 2021
  • And this guy is using his bully pulpit to attack and try to kneecap Goodyear?
    — Robin Goist, cleveland, 20 Aug. 2020
  • How much could Biden move the needle by using his bully pulpit?
    — Maureen Groppe, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Why didn’t Abe use the bully pulpit to shame lawmakers to act?
    — William Pesek, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The Supreme Court delved into the point at which the use of the bully pulpit crossed the line.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Yet the chamber gave him a bully pulpit from which to inveigh against the ills plaguing the nation.
    — Time, 5 June 2018
  • There is a loud species of comic who has no muse but grievance politics, who makes the stage a bully pulpit.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021
  • At the helm of the government was a president with a bully pulpit, ready to upend things.
    — Liza Mundy, The Atlantic, 29 Feb. 2020
  • The first test will be if the president-elect is willing to use the bully pulpit against his former colleague.
    — Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2020
  • This president has never used the bully pulpit to call for universal health care.
    — ABC News, 5 Mar. 2023
  • To try to squash a referendum using the persuasion of a bully pulpit is one thing.
    — Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2026
  • And that is an important part of the presidency—the bully pulpit.
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 13 Apr. 2020
  • The agitated sign-off came from an anchor who has rarely, if ever, used the anchor chair as a bully pulpit.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 9 Dec. 2021
  • At this point, though, Musk has little means to effect change in his own creation apart from taking to the bully pulpit.
    — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The mayor is a key player, not only for the budgeting power that comes with the job but also the bully pulpit.
    — Alison Dirr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2022
  • Episodes aired daily during the trial, giving Scrushy a bully pulpit.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 14 May 2020
  • Nick Saban has used a bully pulpit, filibustered and knows the power of polls.
    — Rainer Sabin, AL.com, 6 Jan. 2018
  • Trump has used his bully pulpit to amplify that message and the power of his office to take matters into his own hands.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Only the chief executive can use the bully pulpit to persuade the public.
    — Kevin Kosar, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Trump knows it, but still took a stab from his privileged bully pulpit in Switzerland with the zeal of neocolonialism.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 21 Jan. 2026
  • But the House as well as the Senate can hold oversight hearings and leadership has a bully pulpit to push back.
    — James B. Speta, Twin Cities, 16 Sep. 2025

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