How to Use rightward in a Sentence

rightward

adjective or adverb

• Can the rightward forty-five per cent of the country at this point be talked to?
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 29 June 2021
• Much of that rightward shift has been propelled by Mr. Trump.
  — New York Times, 9 June 2022
• And with the Supreme Court’s rightward shift, many in the movement sense their moment has arrived.
  — Sarah Varney, Quartz, 5 Aug. 2021
• The rightward shift in the Israeli government has raised eyebrows abroad and at home.
  — Rob Picheta, CNN, 29 Dec. 2022
• The extreme rightward shift of the Supreme Court has already begun to erode the court’s public standing.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2022
• On the left, many feel betrayed by Mr. Macron’s rightward tilt over the course of his presidency.
  — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
• The women worried about the school board, but also saw the issues there as part of a broader rightward turn in the county.
  — Washington Post, 6 May 2022
• Texas' rightward push was clear in ways beyond the party platform.
  — Will Weissert, ajc, 21 June 2022
• Voters in the past have turned rightward for solutions.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 27 June 2018
• Yet Justice Kennedy closed his third decade on the court in a decidedly rightward pose.
  — The Economist, 30 June 2018
• In the Trump era, the rightward edge of the Catholic world had few qualms about embracing Christian nationalism.
  — Katherine Stewart, The New Republic, 9 Mar. 2021
• The labor and consumer markets will dictate whether this rightward shift is worth the trouble.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 16 June 2022
• With the Supreme Court’s rightward shift, there is a heavy cloud hanging over the administrative state.
  — Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2022
• Juszczyk did the same, winding back after an initial rightward step to block the left-side defensive end.
  — John Hirschauer, National Review, 2 Feb. 2020
• Sure, the 2024 election is still a ways away, and the rightward march of the GOP risks damaging all of its candidates with a broader electorate.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 3 Feb. 2022
• That means resisting the rightward pull from the most conservative activists in the GOP.
  — Dallas News, 19 Dec. 2022
• Already some on the rightward fringes of our politics have sought to take matters into their own hands.
  — Damon Linker, TheWeek, 4 Dec. 2020
• In her votes and in her voice on and off the bench, Justice Sotomayor has unflinchingly called out the Court’s rightward turn, and is confronting it.
  — David Fontana, Vox, 6 July 2018
• Conversely, Macron has moved to the right on some issues to try to steal some of Le Pen’s thunder and keep abreast of a general rightward shift by the French electorate.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2022
• The president has also named two justices to the Supreme Court, cementing its rightward shift.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 24 June 2020
• For months, poll after poll has presaged a rapid rightward shift among Hispanics.
  — The Editors, National Review, 16 June 2022
• The law school had long stood out for its rightward leanings and ties to conservative benefactors.
  — Jo Becker, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023
• And other data suggests the court’s rightward move is about more than appearances.
  — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 28 May 2023
• And Biden will have an even harder time changing Trump’s rightward tilt to the nation’s judicial system.
  — John Wildermuth, SFChronicle.com, 7 Nov. 2020
• The dozen shots that follow are all similarly rigid in their rightward panning and 360 degree rounds.
  — Boyd Van Hoeij, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 July 2018
• In Iran, meanwhile, the hopes of the revolution were quickly dashed, as the Islamic regime’s hard rightward turn gradually closed the country off to the rest of the world.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 12 June 2023
• The court's rapid rightward shift in recent years was a change for the liberal jurist, who early in his career sat with the same group of eight other justices for more than a decade.
  — Jessica Gresko, ajc, 27 Jan. 2022
• Putting aside the bad blood from those political decisions, Ducey also has to factor in the rightward shift of his own party.
  — Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 10 Jan. 2022
• Thanks to the rightward shift of the courts under Trump, A.D.F. lawyers now often find a sympathetic audience on the federal bench.
  — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• No matter the steady rightward shift of Israeli politics over the last two decades, Ben-Gvir’s extremism was until not long ago seen as beyond the pale.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024