How to Use presidential in a Sentence

presidential

adjective
  • Now Will Hurd has stepped down from the board following the launch of his presidential campaign.
    Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 18 July 2023
  • The Supreme Court will hear the case this term, which means a decision may come in summer 2024, in the midst of the US presidential election season.
    Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The first time was in the second-ever presidential election in 1800.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2023
  • This is known as the presidential anthem, reserved for the presence of the commander in chief, hence the title.
    Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The 2024 election will be the first time Tester is running during a presidential election with Trump on the ballot.
    Hailey Bullis, Washington Examiner, 28 Dec. 2023
  • There was Ron Paul’s presidential campaign that year, too.
    Annalisa Quinn, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
  • This year, Carlson joined him, and the two discussed Netflix and the looming 2024 presidential election.
    Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Salvadorans living in the United States will be able to vote for the third time in a presidential contest, and for the first time also will choose members of Congress.
    Soudi Jiménez, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Moms for Liberty may be fringe, but its members could be of use to presidential hopefuls.
    Shauna Shames, The Conversation, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Local legend traces the origin of Charleston's iconic she-crab soup to a presidential dinner served at the home of Mayor Rhett in the early 1900s.
    Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2023
  • What races are at stake in addition to the presidential primary?
    USA TODAY, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Even presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis once stopped by the Tenderloin to shoot a video.
    Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The collision of those starkly conflicting visions is the core of the 2024 presidential election.
    Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2024
  • One in Washington, D.C., which is scheduled to begin in March, stems from his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
    Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2023
  • However, this isn’t the first time the momager, 67, has been considered to run for the presidential candidacy.
    Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 19 Aug. 2023
  • When a first-term President opts to seek a second term, his campaign to win re-election is not an official presidential act.
    Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Among those blocked was Eric Zemmour, who ran as a far-right candidate in France’s 2022 presidential election.
    Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2024
  • The outcome of the case is being closely watched because of the possible impacts to the charges against Trump, which stem from what Smith alleges was a multi-pronged plot to reverse the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Just as in the United States in the 2016 presidential race, religious leaders have played an unusually active role in the campaign against Milei.
    David Feliba, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The challenges would keep coming, with two tumultuous presidential elections, the racial reckoning that followed the police killing of George Floyd, and now, the upheaval since the Israel-Hamas war.
    Tovia Smith, NPR, 10 May 2024
  • Trump easily carried the state in the 2020 presidential election.
    Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2024
  • And while the presidential race at the top of the ticket draws the most attention, in Newaygo County, local issues both on and off the ballot factor into the community's focus.
    Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 10 May 2024
  • From his lips to the ears of senior executives, politicians and maybe even presidential candidates.
    Merrie Spaeth, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The ruling has the potential to produce a seismic political shift in a crucial presidential swing state.
    Julie Bosman, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Biden trailed former President Donald Trump in the poll's presidential ballot test.
    Alexandra Marquez, NBC News, 18 July 2023
  • His death comes just a month before Russia's presidential election, which is likely to secure Putin another six years in office.
    Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Prosecutors want the trial to start this summer, while Trump's lawyers think it should be put off until well after the November presidential election.
    Greg Allen, NPR, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis has high stakes for both men’s presidential ambitions.
    Stephen Moore, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Meadows was a central player in the investigation under the purview of Smith and his staff exploring efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Republican presidential hopefuls have flocked to Iowa to woo voters ahead of the crucial Iowa caucuses early next year.
    Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 20 Aug. 2023

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