How to Use canvass in a Sentence

canvass

1 of 2 verb
  • We go to every house to canvass voters.
  • The group has been canvassing neighborhoods to ask people to vote for him.
  • She is canvassing for one of the presidential candidates this year.
  • The company canvassed several sites for a new factory.
  • A team of volunteers is canvassing the city for the Republican Party.
  • Police canvassed the area and found spent shell casings at the scene.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 16 June 2026
  • Deputies canvassed the neighborhood in search of the girl.
    — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 28 May 2026
  • The city plans to canvass the results from all six runoff races on Monday.
    — Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 8 June 2021
  • An officer canvassed the area for cameras but did not find any, police wrote.
    — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 9 May 2023
  • Detectives will canvass the area to see if neighbors heard or saw anything.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 7 July 2023
  • Health officials have canvassed the area where the foxes were captured.
    — Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 10 June 2026
  • The board is expected to canvass the votes and make the results official next week.
    — Andres Picon, ExpressNews.com, 12 Dec. 2020
  • The man was pronounced dead on the scene as officers canvassed the area for witnesses.
    — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Officers canvassed the area of the shooting and found 9mm shell casings.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 16 May 2026
  • Officers canvassed the area around the school and did not find anything, a police spokesperson said.
    — Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Outreach teams have also canvassed two areas downtown to find people who need refuge.
    — Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Police are now canvassing the area around the school looking to obtain video footage from home owners in the area.
    — Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 15 Dec. 2025
  • What this also means is that a lot of New Yorkers are getting canvassed for the first time.
    — Clio Chang, Curbed, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Dozens of search and rescue members canvassed the area, including checking avalanche chutes.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The strategists also took a canvassing approach not just to door knocking but to paid media.
    — Amie Parnes, The Hill, 31 Oct. 2025
  • In the hours that followed, homicide detectives would canvass the area for any tiny amount of evidence.
    — Alex Stone, ABC News, 29 July 2021
  • The election results will be canvassed in the board’s April 22 meeting.
    — Morgan Matzen, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 26 Jan. 2026
  • She got married during the campaign, took a two-day honeymoon, then got back to canvassing.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
  • The group used these findings to figure out which houses to canvass for more data, Wheeler said.
    — Slone Terranella, Detroit Free Press, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Detectives were canvassing the area and were going door to door in the neighborhood.
    — Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Protect Wyoming is enlisting volunteers to knock on doors and canvass the state.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Neighbors canvassed the apartment complex and found the video mentioned by law enforcement.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Service in cities that cut ties with DART would end the day after votes are canvassed.
    — Lilly Kersh, Dallas Morning News, 17 Jan. 2026
  • At the time, police canvassing the area found a Glock 45 in a yard near where the shooting occurred.
    — Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Once all the votes are counted, counties across the state will canvass them, or officially report the results to the state.
    — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2022

canvass

2 of 2 noun
  • The group led a canvass over the weekend in an effort to find him.
    — Bill Lukitsch, Kansas City Star, 24 Feb. 2024
  • The rest of the kids went back to their cities and states to lobby, canvass, plead and protest.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 13 June 2022
  • Kelly also launched a get-out-the-vote canvass in the morning.
    — The Arizona Republic, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The official said that no canvass was done today.
    — Liz Kreutz, NBC news, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Require board approval for the clerk to hire any associate who would help with the canvass.
    — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 25 Mar. 2021
  • During a canvass of the area, it was learned that another home also had been burglarized.
    — Cheryl Higley, cleveland, 29 Oct. 2021
  • State law does not allow the canvass of mail-in ballots to begin until Thursday.
    — Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 20 July 2022
  • The losing candidate must file a request for a recount within seven days of the vote canvass.
    — Jacob Scholl, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 July 2022
  • This year, 34 local artists were turned loose to create unique works of art with blank ceramic skulls as their canvasses.
    — Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The Utah canvass is not the only canvassing effort happening right now.
    — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The initial canvass of the race found Miller-Meeks defeated Hart by 47 votes.
    — Kathryn Watson, Adam Brewster, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2021
  • The vote to switch to a canvass, or firehouse primary, failed on a 34-36 vote with five abstentions.
    — Matthew Barakat, Star Tribune, 24 Feb. 2021
  • For the first time, Hubbard decided to donate money, phone-bank and canvass for a candidate.
    — Priscella Vegastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2022
  • Such an alert would prompt police to broadcast a description of the missing person and coordinate a search and canvass.
    — Drake Bentley, jsonline.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Doing both a canvass of voters and taking the county back to court means the review effort that appeared to be wrapping up is likely to last even longer.
    — Andrew Oxford, The Arizona Republic, 15 July 2021
  • Work began as the sun rose Tuesday morning, with a backhoe ripping down the existing stage made of metal and canvass canopy.
    — Ryan Gillespie, Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 2022
  • This tight mayoral contest came down to the final votes and those were added Tuesday, when cities completed the official canvass.
    — Matt Canham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Nov. 2021
  • In April, O'Rourke drove 600 miles to Laredo to knock on doors and canvass for new voters.
    — Paul J. Weber and Will Weissert, USA TODAY, 25 May 2021
  • Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, the governor-elect, presided over the canvass.
    — Libby Cathey, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The middle frames offered dueling canvasses for the starting pitchers.
    — Andy McCullough, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The new data shows how the ethnic, racial and voting-age makeup of neighborhoods shifted over the past decade, based on the national house-to-house canvass last year.
    — Author: Tara Bahrampour, Ted Mellnik, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Aug. 2021
  • What better canvass for a full reveal of my shapely leg meat than the river-facing facade of the Merchandise Mart?
    — Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 7 May 2021
  • There is an effort already underway to conduct an in-person canvass of the 2020 vote in Utah.
    — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Less than 400 mail-in ballots will be counted in the board’s final canvass Friday, Berry stated in the email.
    — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The project included a door-to-door canvass of the county’s voters, led by familiar figures from the Stop the Steal circuit.
    — New York Times, 19 July 2022
  • In a special session, City Council approved a canvass of the votes that showed record voter turnout and strong support for a trio of propositions.
    — Diego Mendoza-Moyers, ExpressNews.com, 16 Nov. 2020
  • The canvass of mail-in ballots got underway across Maryland Thursday, the first day of what could be a lengthy process to decide key races both local and statewide.
    — Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 21 July 2022
  • Johnson scaled up after Brick by refining his recipe, proving its worth on expanding budgets and bolder canvasses.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Warnock, at an Election Day canvass lunch in Norcross, urged supporters not to get deterred by rainy weather and to keep going to the polls.
    — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 6 Dec. 2022
  • During a canvass of the scene, investigators also allegedly found a gas can in the area and a black iPhone, the warrant affidavit said.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 9 Feb. 2026

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