How to Use referendum in a Sentence

referendum

noun

• The issue was decided by referendum.
• The referendum on the latter passed by 66.4% of the vote.
  — Marshall Ingwerson, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
• The increase in price is the result of a referendum held on Sunday.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 6 Feb. 2024
• The next step in the referendum process called for the state ballot board to determine the language that voters would see in the polling booth.
  — Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2023
• The Brexit referendum took place in 2016, where millions of Brits cast their vote on whether the country should stay or leave the EU.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 13 Feb. 2024
• Biden hopes to flip that script and win by turning the election into a referendum on Trump.
  — Doyle McManus, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2024
• The ball is kept off the ground again; the election actually shapes up as a referendum on Trump at this point.
  — Sean Trende, Orlando Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2024
• At that point, the next potential battle over the law could be a 2024 referendum.
  — John McCormack, National Review, 3 Apr. 2023
• The vote could be a referendum, of sorts, on the legacy of outgoing Mayor John Giles.
  — Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 20 July 2024
• If approved, then the referendum question would be on the ballot in May 2023.
  — Caroline Beck, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Dec. 2022
• As much as possible, Trump plans to cast the election as a referendum on Biden.
  — Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 23 July 2024
• In the lead-up to the referendum, the three judges presiding over the Little Rock District Court underscored the need for a new courthouse.
  — Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 8 Aug. 2023
• The bill gives the city and county the latitude to impose a sales tax – but only if voters okayed it through a referendum.
  — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2023
• There's also a referendum to lower the voting age from 20 to 18.
  — Huizhong Wu, ajc, 26 Nov. 2022
• In other words, the outcome in Weinstein's case isn’t a referendum on the current state of #MeToo.
  — Kim Elsesser, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
• The referendum, which had a low turnout rate, didn’t settle the legal back-and-forth and internal power plays.
  — Haleluya Hadero, Quartz, 8 Apr. 2024
• The industry launched a referendum attempt to repeal the law and defund the council.
  — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2023
• Which brings us to the third goal: making the 2024 election a choice between two flawed candidates, not a referendum on Biden’s first three years.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2024
• The bill will become void if fast-food companies do not withdraw the referendum on AB 257 by Jan. 1.
  — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
• The campaign is now strategizing on how to prevent the court from ordering the removal of the referendum from the ballot.
  — Dana Munro, Baltimore Sun, 12 July 2024
• At Monday’s meeting, the council will vote on the phrasing of the referendum question.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 13 Mar. 2023
• That’s why this game feels like an appropriate referendum on the kind of program Day has built.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2022
• The next year, Mr. Erdogan pushed for a referendum that moved much of the state’s power from the Parliament to the president — meaning him.
  — Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 28 May 2023
• But the notion that the 2024 election is going to be a referendum on companies that want to help people and planet is gone.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2024
• The referendum also builds on work by Indigenous groups in Ecuador.
  — Catrin Einhorn, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• The work will be funded through a 2021 bond referendum approved by voters.
  — Teri Webster, Dallas News, 3 Jan. 2023
• The demographics and polling show that year by year, more people want a referendum.
  — Amanda Ferguson, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2023
• That was enough because 2020 was, in important ways, a referendum on Trump’s term.
  — Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 20 Mar. 2024
• Nevertheless, the outlines of what this referendum on young men might look like have already started to reveal themselves.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
• One is for president, the other a referendum on eventual European Union membership; neither appears safe from pro-Russian meddling.
  — Christian Edwards, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024