How to Use democrat in a Sentence

democrat

noun
  • Five democrats have publicly called for Biden to suspend his campaign.
    Cheyanne M. Daniels, The Hill, 9 July 2024
  • Trump's allies have blamed Democrats and their rhetoric for the attack on the former president's life.
    Zac Anderson, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Alas, this framework is exactly the opposite of what Democrats seek.
    Stephen Moore, Orange County Register, 6 Oct. 2024
  • The border has long seemed a political millstone for Democrats, a place where the party splinters on policy and the results are out of step with broad public opinion.
    Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 28 Sep. 2024
  • But in the past decade democrats have been pushed back again (see article).
    The Economist, 5 Mar. 2020
  • If the democrats take back the house on November 6, there’s a chance that some progress might happen.
    Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Nov. 2018
  • In the by-elections to fill four of the vacancies, on March 11th, the democrats suffered a further setback.
    The Economist, 12 Mar. 2018
  • But Pence is, at core, a small-d democrat, not a demagogue.
    The Tylt, cleveland.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • All six Democrats on the committee voted against the measure.
    Todd Richmond, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 May 2017
  • For Turkish democrats, last spring was supposed to be a moment of triumph.
    Halil Karaveli, Foreign Affairs, 14 July 2023
  • The judge also ruled Racine County chose the stops for its mobile voting van in areas of the city that favored democrats.
    Benjamin Yount | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 13 June 2024
  • Despite that process having dragged on for decades, the social democrats were still able to win elections in the past, however.
    Rick Noack, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Just three months ago three reputable polls had the democrats up at 15 points in the Generic Congressional Ballot.
    Fox News, 23 May 2018
  • Just six Democrats and three Republicans earned a score of B-minus or better.
    Eliot Kleinberg and Mike Stucka, miamiherald, 24 June 2017
  • Both clung to autocracy and suppressed would-be democrats.
    WSJ, 27 Mar. 2019
  • In Latin America, hardline leaders from both the left and the right threaten to haul the region back to the days when autocrats ruled, and democrats were routinely jailed.
    Madeleine Albright, Time, 20 Mar. 2020
  • Mr Urzúa, a social democrat, was a voice of prudence in the cabinet of the populist leftist president.
    The Economist, 13 July 2019
  • Guillermo Vuletin of the World Bank argues that autocrats fall when economies slump, and the democrats who succeed them take credit for the inevitable recovery.
    The Economist, 14 June 2018
  • And the bread and butter of democrats struggling to entrench liberal democracy in countries across Africa.
    John J Stremlau, Quartz Africa, 2 Oct. 2019
  • The only demographic that was reduced was white democrats.
    Alander Rocha, al, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Liebling is one of five Democrats who have announced bids for the top office which will be alluringly without an incumbent in next year’s race.
    Rachel E. Stassen-Berger, Twin Cities, 2 Apr. 2017
  • In Washington, Manafort worked to promote Yanukovych as a pro-Western democrat.
    Max Bearak, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Donnelly is seen as a pretty vulnerable democrat in the 2018 midterm, according to The New York Times.
    Christianna Silva, Teen Vogue, 9 May 2018
  • South German democrats fought a dwindling guerilla campaign.
    James Robins, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Democrats have every reason to make taxes one of their signature issues.
    Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 29 May 2017
  • Democrats are promising a bitter fight against the bill, which would repeal major portions of 2010 legislation Dodd-Frank.
    WSJ, 8 May 2017
  • Democrats have asked Kasich to veto the restrictions on Medicaid.
    Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati.com, 27 June 2017
  • At least five Democrats have expressed interest in running in District 2, where incumbent Al Austin has stepped down.
    Jim Morrill, Steve Harrison and Ann Doss Helms, charlotteobserver, 4 July 2017
  • While Democrats have managed to win at the statewide level in Senate and gubernatorial elections, the lone House seat has proven elusive for two decades.
    Ryan Grim, The Intercept, 26 May 2017
  • But at the end of the day, as more-astute Americans came to understand, De Gaulle was rock solid, and a democrat deeply rooted within the best traditions of the Western world.
    Colin Dueck, National Review, 7 Feb. 2018

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