How to Use soapbox in a Sentence

soapbox

noun
  • This may be a weird year to stand on this soapbox.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 10 Mar. 2026
  • This is not the day to get on your soapbox and espouse your views.
    — Georgia Nicols, The Denver Post, 17 Jan. 2025
  • This show is a smile all the way, so just admire the scenery and the plot, and get off the soapbox.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2021
  • There’s more to free speech than standing on a soapbox on the town square and shouting.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 19 June 2019
  • Well, forgive me for standing on my soapbox.
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The acclaim provides her a soapbox to bring the rights for the disabled to light.
    — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 6 Apr. 2022
  • But, hey, no soapboxes here — just an awareness that even small changes add up on all sorts of fronts.
    — Katie Workman, NBC News, 2 Mar. 2020
  • The soapbox, the ballot box, the jury box, and then the cartridge box.
    — CBS News, 18 Mar. 2022
  • What’s needed now is the will to step off our soapboxes and into the weeds of civic life.
    — Big Think, 12 Nov. 2025
  • So there’s my little soapbox moment.
    — Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Everybody needs to come down off the soapbox and get to a place of solution.
    — New York Times, 23 Nov. 2021
  • This means the location can now be a soapbox for all of Houston.
    — Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The rest of the crowded Democratic field will take the soapbox over the next few days.
    — J.f. | Des Moines, The Economist, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Should the queens be able to express themselves or does Tuberville have a soapbox to stand on?
    — Lily Jackson | [email protected], al, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Organizers used a wood hook to pull candidates who go over time off the soapbox.
    — Cate Charron, IndyStar, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Organizers used a wood hook to pull candidates who go over time off the soapbox.
    — Cate Charron, IndyStar, 28 Mar. 2026
  • There’s mild adventure and fear during the soapbox derby race.
    — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
  • My concerns and thoughts, happy with their time at the soapbox, stepped back and stopped plaguing me first thing in the morning.
    — Hillary Richard, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Diego, for some reason, is still on his soapbox yelling about saving JFK.
    — Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, 3 Aug. 2020
  • The judge did not want to see his courtroom become Kaczynski’s soapbox.
    — William Finnegan, Smithsonian, 18 May 2018
  • Not by bashing a trash can between periods or standing on a soapbox before the game.
    — Sam Donnellon, Philly.com, 7 Apr. 2018
  • Standing on a soapbox in a town square, the delirious ranter, or even the genuine prophet, can reach a few hundred people.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The crew has nothing in common except a passion for sports, from surfing to soapbox derby.
    — Lee Jenkins, SI.com, 12 July 2018
  • At no point did that show pause the action to get up on a soapbox and be all didactic for the sake of scoring some easy points with the woke left.
    — Graham Techler, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2021
  • Some blasted liquor and beer, others warned against wine and one Methodist pastor took to his soapbox to condemn hard cider.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 2 Nov. 2019
  • Organizers used a wooden hook to pull candidates who went over time off the soapbox.
    — Cate Charron, IndyStar, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Just don’t expect The Good Fight to become an activist’s soapbox.
    — Benjamin Lindsay, VanityFair.com, 9 Feb. 2017
  • Omar, a congresswoman, has a soapbox more significant than most of us.
    — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 6 Dec. 2025
  • To wrap up with the usual soapbox about AI being a tool, deep learning is only part of the system.
    — David A. Teich, Forbes, 11 May 2021
  • Ian McKellen doesn't need anyone's permission to stand on his soapbox.
    — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 11 May 2026

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