How to Use approval rating in a Sentence

approval rating

noun

• That his approval rating currently stands below thirty per cent is partly due to the impression that something is not quite up and up about the current crew at City Hall.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2024
• The film currently holds a 58% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, down from the original's 69% score.
  — Chris Sims, The Courier-Journal, 2 Oct. 2024
• And yet his approval rating is the one thing that is not changing.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2023
• To run an 81-year-old with a 38% approval rating who just got trounced in the first debate would be a risk.
  — Ezra Klein, The Mercury News, 3 July 2024
• The new poll puts his approval rating at 38%, which is roughly where that number has stood for most of the past two years.
  — Josh Boak, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2024
• At the start of the pandemic, Fauci was trusted and revered, with a 78% approval rating.
  — Julia Johnson, Washington Examiner, 6 Sep. 2023
• His approval rating had declined, and the health worries were ever present.
  — Melissa August, TIME, 15 July 2024
• That appeal hasn’t seemed to have worked in California, where his approval rating is 31%, the poll found.
  — Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2024
• Nor has his approach to the conflict moved his overall approval rating.
  — Anthony Salvanto, CBS News, 19 Oct. 2023
• Bukele’s approval rating, at ninety per cent, is the highest in Latin America and perhaps the world.
  — Amada Torruella, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2023
• Compare that to the 67% of Black voters who approved of the job the president is doing — far above his overall approval rating of 43%.
  — Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 7 Apr. 2024
• López Obrador leaves office with an approval rating of nearly 80%.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024
• Moore scored a 65% approval rating, according to the survey.
  — Tiffany Watson, Baltimore Sun, 26 July 2024
• The older Sharif has a 36% approval rating among the Pakistanis surveyed.
  — TIME, 23 Oct. 2023
• Biden’s overall job approval rating stood at 41% when the poll was in the field in early October, little changed from his standing throughout the course of the year.
  — Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN, 17 Oct. 2023
• Our poll this morning has Biden's approval rating at 33 percent.
  — ABC News, 14 Jan. 2024
• His handling of the economy is as low as it's been, along with his overall approval rating too, which has been hovering in the low-40s range for more than a year, now down to 40%.
  — Anthony Salvanto, Fred Backus, Jennifer De Pinto, CBS News, 30 July 2023
• But that’s still extremely low and below his poor overall 42 percent approval rating in the poll.
  — Jim Puzzanghera, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2023
• His approval rating, already hovering in the low 40s for two years, dipped even lower in recent weeks.
  — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2024
• Utah Governor Spencer Cox says Trump’s legal problems and low approval rating will doom him at the ballot box next year.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Aug. 2023
• That's lower than his overall approval rating, which stands in the low 40s, according to FiveThirtyEight.
  — Laura Gersony, ABC News, 25 Aug. 2023
• Polling this year has shown her approval rating in Michigan between 54 percent and 61 percent.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 21 July 2024
• That steep drop from members of his own party put his overall approval rating at 37 percent, a drop of four points to match his personal low.
  — Matt Viser, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2023
• Adams’s approval rating had tumbled to second-term George W. Bush levels.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2024
• The latest from the campaign trail —What’s behind President Biden’s low approval rating?
  — Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
• President Joe Biden’s approval rating has been hovering in the high 30s.
  — George Makari, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024
• Biden’s approval rating in New York is underwater at 45%, according to the poll.
  — Tim Balk, New York Daily News, 20 Feb. 2024
• Hochul’s approval rating hit just 38% in a June poll, though 45% of voters supported her toll position.
  — Ross O'Keefe, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 5 Sep. 2024
• The approval rating of Congress has dwindled to 13 percent, less than popular support for bank robbers Jesse and Frank James.
  — Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2024
• The current president, a Democrat, struggles in the polls, his approval rating sinking as fuel prices rise.
  — Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 11 July 2023

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024