ELECTION in a Sentence

Learn ELECTION 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.
290 example sentences for ELECTION, such as:
1. I didn't vote in the last election.
2. He beat his opponent in the election.
3. They were to proceed immediately to the election.
4. The Democrats appear to have the election sewn up.
5. The election had lasted three days instead of one.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of ELECTION
election
 n.  the status or fact of being elected
 n.  a vote to select the winner of a position or political office
Classic Sentence: (80 in 6 pages)
1  A week before Scarlett and Rhett announced their engagement, an election for governor had been held.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
2  The election had lasted three days instead of one.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
3  Scarlett, with her usual disregard of all matters not directly under her nose, had scarcely known an election was being held.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
4  Rhett had taken no part in the election and his relations with the Yankees were no different from what they had always been.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
5  I'm working harder than I ever worked with a shovel in the gold rush, trying to help get the election organized.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
6  It doesn't matter a damn to me who wins this election.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
7  And when the election came, despite the frantic efforts of the Republicans, Georgia once more had a Democratic governor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
8  Now and then, the election was very close, and that was the time the poor man came in.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
9  It gave them pleasure to believe this, for Scully stood as the people's man, and boasted of it boldly when election day came.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
10  Also election day came round again, and Jurgis made half a week's wages out of that, all net profit.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
11  It was a very close election that year, and the echoes of the battle reached even to Packingtown.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
12  But I doubt if they had more meaning in them than an election cry, and I cannot suggest a darker picture of her state of mind.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVIII
13  The sixth day was fixed for the election of the marshal of the province.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 27
14  They were to proceed immediately to the election.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 28
15  The district marshals walked carrying plates, on which were balls, from their tables to the high table, and the election began.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 30
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Only a quarter of registered voters actually voted in the election.
2  And now over to Jim Muir, for a report on the South African election.
3  Almost half the population are eligible to vote in today's election.
4  The Democrats appear to have the election sewn up.
5  In the election of a wife, as in a project of war, to err but once is to be undone for ever.
6  These policies give us a solid base for winning the next election.
7  He beat his opponent in the election.
8  Labour easily beat the Conservatives in the last election.
9  Whoever wins the election is going to have a tough job getting the economy back on its feet.
10  Many of the party's traditional voters deserted it at the last election.
11  The newspaper's forecast that the Democrats would be totally beaten in the general election came true.
12  Our prospects of winning an election will be better under his leadership.
13  This election campaign has been characterized by violence.
14  There was a lull in political violence after the election of the current president.
15  I didn't vote in the last election.