How to Use electable in a Sentence

electable

adjective

• Cordray is seen as the more electable of the two in the fall.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 8 May 2018
• In late January, 44% of voters said Biden was the most electable.
  — Author: Matt Viser, Sean Sullivan, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2020
• The mystery is what makes this most unsubtle of elites so electable.
  — Samuel Earle, The New Republic, 23 Feb. 2021
• But not everyone at the start of the caucuses agreed on who was most electable.
  — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2020
• Biden is perceived as electable for one reason: because the rest of the Democratic field has gone so far to the left.
  — Marc A. Thiessen, The Mercury News, 12 July 2019
• Does this enhanced brand awareness make Liz Cheney more electable in Wyoming in 2022?
  — Jess Collen, Forbes, 13 May 2021
• Why Joe Biden is the least electable major Democrat for president in 2020.
  — Ella Nilsen, Vox, 15 July 2019
• The bigger question is, if Warren isn’t electable, what woman would be?
  — refinery29.com, 4 Mar. 2020
• Biden's show of force puts him on a collision course with Sanders that will test who Democrats view as more electable in November.
  — Julie Pace, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2020
• Less than this is not acceptable and should honestly not be electable.
  — Star Tribune, 1 Sep. 2020
• As if a majority of votes cast for one highly electable man, could raise the fortunes of millions.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 31 Mar. 2018
• Bolsonaro has tried to moderate his tone for the last year and backed market friendly ideas for the economy to sound more electable.
  — Mauricio Savarese, The Seattle Times, 6 June 2017
• Which means they just may be left with nothing more than a gamble and a hope that Trump's picks wind up being electable next November.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 2 Sep. 2021
• Or will the screeds and screams convince Iowans, questing after the most electable pick, that Biden is the candidate the Trump team fears more than any other Democrat?
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 25 Jan. 2020
• On the trail, candidates cast themselves as the most electable in a district that has radically changed since its lines were drawn a decade ago.
  — Dallas News, 4 Mar. 2020
• Messina argued last year that Bernie Sanders is not electable in a general election against Trump.
  — Emily Larsen, Washington Examiner, 10 Jan. 2020
• This has fuelled his claim of being the most electable primary candidate on the ballot.
  — The Economist, 7 Feb. 2020
• The electable female candidate reaches across the aisle with soft, moisturized hands.
  — Claire Friedman, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
• Cleveland was broadly welcomed back by the Democratic Party, and was thought to be the most electable candidate.
  — Time, 16 Nov. 2022
• Namely, that neither pundits nor pols define who is electable.
  — Leonard Pitts Jr - Miami Herald, The Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2019
• The belief that Biden was the most electable candidate was key to his winning the Democratic nomination in 2020.
  — David Lautersenior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• The results also captured a significant shift in Democrats' views of the most electable candidate.
  — Author: Matt Viser, Sean Sullivan, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2020
• And he was considered more electable in a race against Trump — a vague quality bestowed upon a small circle of candidates who tend not to rock the boat very much.
  — Lily Herman, Teen Vogue, 7 Oct. 2019
• Democratic voters want someone who is electable but what does electability mean to them?
  — CBS News, 30 July 2020
• With a different electoral strategy for taking on Trump, the picture of the most electable candidate changes.
  — NBC News, 23 June 2019
• Who’s most electable against Trump is a thick undercurrent in the Democratic primary.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 14 June 2019
• Most Democratic professionals seemed to regard Gillum as clearly the less electable choice.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 29 Aug. 2018
• Governors don't have to be smart, apparently, just electable.
  — Byron Tate, Arkansas Online, 27 Mar. 2021
• Arguing that Perdue is the more electable candidate in the fall, Trump raised the specter to low Republican turnout if Kemp is nominated.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 24 May 2022
• Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar managed to draw more blood by arguing that Buttigieg isn’t electable.
  — John McCormack, National Review, 20 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024