CAMPAIGN in a Sentence

Learn CAMPAIGN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
267 example sentences for CAMPAIGN, such as:
1. He was a victim of a smear campaign.
2. The sales campaign was a total disaster.
3. They were naturally talking about the campaign.
4. We need someone to coordinate the whole campaign.
5. You are causing me to lose the fruits of a campaign.
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 Meanings and Examples of CAMPAIGN
campaign
 v.  run, stand, or compete for an office or a position
 v.  go on a campaign; go off to war
Classic Sentence: (95 in 7 pages)
1  Telyanin for some reason had been transferred from the Guards just before this campaign.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV
2  "But still this does not mean that the campaign is over," said Prince Andrew.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
3  Before returning to Bilibin's Prince Andrew had gone to a bookshop to provide himself with some books for the campaign, and had spent some time in the shop.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XII
4  You are causing me to lose the fruits of a campaign.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV
5  They were naturally talking about the campaign.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XV
6  The Don horse he was riding was one he had bought from a Cossack during the campaign, and he wore a crumpled hussar cap stuck jauntily back on one side of his head.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII
7  Berg, who had obtained his captaincy during the campaign, had gained the confidence of his superiors by his promptitude and accuracy and had arranged his money matters very satisfactorily.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII
8  Next day, the army began its campaign, and up to the very battle of Austerlitz, Boris was unable to see either Prince Andrew or Dolgorukov again and remained for a while with the Ismaylov regiment.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX
9  "As there's no one to fall in love with on campaign, he's fallen in love with the Tsar," he said.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X
10  Napoleon, in the blue cloak which he had worn on his Italian campaign, sat on his small gray Arab horse a little in front of his marshals.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIV
11  In his person, honor was shown to a simple fighting Russian soldier without connections and intrigues, and to one who was associated by memories of the Italian campaign with the name of Suvorov.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II
12  He involuntarily remembered how Dolokhov, who had fully recovered his former position after the campaign, had returned to Petersburg and come to him.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV
13  The old man, roused by activity, expected the best results from the new campaign, while Prince Andrew on the contrary, taking no part in the war and secretly regretting this, saw only the dark side.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII
14  The Orthodox begin looting, and in a way of which our last campaign can give you no idea.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX
15  It was awaiting the Emperor's arrival and the beginning of a new campaign.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XV
Example Sentence: (172 in 12 pages)
1  He fought in the N African campaign during the last war.
2  They have mounted a propaganda campaign against Western governments.
3  It could renew calls for Attorney General Janet Reno to appoint an independent counsel to investigate alleged campaign wrongdoing.
4  The sales campaign was a total disaster.
5  This is a nationwide campaign to recruit women into trade unions.
6  They will campaign for the return of traditional lands and respect for aboriginal rights and customs.
7  The bank launched an advertising campaign to lure back its traditional customers.
8  In the mid-nineteenth century, Dorothea Dix began to campaign for humane treatment of the mentally ill.
9  People of various party allegiances joined the campaign.
10  He claimed he was the victim of a dirty tricks campaign.
11  He was a victim of a smear campaign.
12  This election campaign has been characterized by violence.
13  The Government has launched an advertising campaign to encourage people to vote.
14  They conducted a vigorous campaign for a shorter working week.
15  We need someone to coordinate the whole campaign.