How to Use exit poll in a Sentence

exit poll

noun
  • The venue falls silent before the exit poll results come through.
    — Astha Rajvanshi/london, TIME, 5 July 2024
  • Vladimir Putin won a record fourth term in a landslide, exit polls showed.
    — Erin Roman, Bloomberg.com, 18 Mar. 2018
  • Here are the results, biggest takeaways and what exit polls showed.
    — Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Networks quoted exit polls that showed two-thirds of voters had made up their minds more than a month ago.
    — David Bauder, The Seattle Times, 7 Nov. 2018
  • Here are the results, biggest takeaways and what exit polls showed, and key election dates and events.
    — Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The exit poll had a margin of error of plus or minus two percentage points.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2019
  • At the same time, Biden's net approval rating in the exit poll was +23 points.
    — Harry Enten, CNN, 14 Oct. 2021
  • African Americans were the only racial group Biden won, the exit polls show.
    — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 4 Mar. 2020
  • The problem for Biden is that the exit poll indicates clear leakage in his support from a year ago.
    — Harry Enten, CNN, 18 Sep. 2021
  • To be sure, there are no exit polls yet that clarify whether people cast their votes with data center issues on their minds.
    — Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Trump was winning about one-third of that group, an improvement over his 28% showing in the exit poll four years ago.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Compare that to exit polls four years ago that showed Sanders winning among whites 56%-42%.
    — Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 9 Mar. 2020
  • In a sense, the 2020 exit poll was just another pre-election survey.
    — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 11 Nov. 2020
  • That's a record-high turnout among liberals in Ohio exit polls dating back to 1984.
    — Christine Filer, ABC News, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The 1998 exit polls, though, told a different and more boring story.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 6 June 2019
  • The exit poll has the current margin of victory at 68% for the yeses and 32% in favor of the nos.
    — Gabriella Paiella, The Cut, 25 May 2018
  • Catholics have proven to be a formidable swing group in elections, and according to exit polls, comprise around one in five voters.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2026
  • In both exit polls, more than 85% said Trump would do a better job handling the issue than Harris.
    — Karlyn Bowman, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Harris won just 35% of white Catholics to Trump’s 63%, according to exit polls.
    — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 24 Dec. 2024
  • An attorney for Reynolds said his client was conducting an exit poll, not electioneering.
    — Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Those findings align with the results of exit polls from elections since the Dobbs decision in 2022.
    — Sarah McCammon, NPR, 2 May 2024
  • Pratt, 42, admitted that his time in the City of Angels may come to a close if the exit polls don't align with his mayoral bid.
    — Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 17 May 2026
  • As the exit polls from the first round of the Tunisian presidential election emerged, a video from 2013 went viral.
    — 1843, 18 Oct. 2019
  • PostTrak exit polls put women at roughly 71 percent of opening-weekend buyers.
    — Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Back then, about two-thirds of voters said the economy was in bad shape, according to the results of the ABC News exit poll.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The rhetoric runs counter to exit polls following Democrats’ sweeping wins in elections a day earlier, which found confidence in the economy falling.
    — Tara Suter, The Hill, 6 Nov. 2025
  • That same year, voters under 30 made up just 14% of the total presidential vote, according to network exit polls.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 1 July 2026
  • To be sure, there were local issues and candidates that mattered, but in those elections where there were exit polls, voters cited the cost of living as the major factor in their vote, with health care next.
    — Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner, 8 Nov. 2025
  • About one third of Jewish voters cast their ballot for Mamdani, according to CNN's exit polls.
    — NPR, 6 Nov. 2025
  • According to exit polls, 60% of inaugural crowds were male and 85% were between 18 and 34 years old.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 1 Feb. 2026

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