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
• Sandu secured 42% of the first-round vote, held on the same day as a referendum on EU membership that passed by the thinnest of margins.
  — Christian Edwards, CNN, 2 Nov. 2024
• The night before Kansans were set to vote on a historic statewide referendum last month, voters saw a lie about how to vote pop up on their phone.
  — Kevin Collier, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2022
• 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
• Barnett and other supporters say the referendum is a first step and not the final word.
  — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 14 Dec. 2024
• In some ways, these midterms are a referendum on President Joe Biden.
  — Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus, Anthony Salvanto, CBS News, 9 Oct. 2022
• This election may well be a referendum on the kind of governance Reagan warned us about decades ago.
  — Dan Crenshaw, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
• 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
• Trustees were expected to vote on whether to put the measure on the ballot as a referendum for local voters.
  — Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2022
• 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
• The referendum led to the opening of the first legal casino, the Resort Casino Hotel, which was inaugurated in 1978.
  — Roger Sands, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Jan 2025