How to Use the Oval Office in a Sentence

the Oval Office

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• Trump shouldn’t be president, but this isn’t the way to keep him out of the Oval Office.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2023
• Photos and White House records corroborate that the two met in the Oval Office at the time.
  — Andrea Bernstein, NPR, 30 May 2024
• There is still only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: at the ballot box.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 31 May 2024
• First, the market tends to trend upward regardless of who sits in the Oval Office.
  — Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 29 July 2024
• Trump has pushed to end birthright citizenship since his time in the Oval Office.
  — Morgan Fischer, The Arizona Republic, 4 Mar. 2024
• The final decision to go to Kyiv was made in a huddle in the Oval Office on Friday.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2023
• Biden addressed the nation in a broadcast from the Oval Office on Wednesday evening.
  — David Ingram, NBC News, 25 July 2024
• President Trump is set to address the nation tonight from the Oval Office.
  — ABC News, 12 Mar. 2023
• The action takes place behind the scenes of the Oval Office, where the president’s staff is on damage control.
  — Terry Byrne, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
• Biden has hosted union organizers in the Oval Office, and the White House is paying interns for the first time since the 1970s.
  — Will Weissert, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2023
• The votes on the margins will likely decide whether President Biden holds the Oval Office or not.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• The next evening, Nixon addressed the nation from the Oval Office and flew home to California a day later.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 3 July 2024
• Tony Goldwyn is trading the Oval Office for the corner office.
  — Gerrad Hall, EW.com, 15 May 2024
• Meanwhile, Trump must reassure voters leery of putting him back in the Oval Office.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 18 May 2024
• Kardashian enjoyed a meeting with Trump in the Oval Office in 2018.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 6 June 2024
• This madman is dangerous and has no business being near or in the Oval Office again.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
• Biden did so from the Oval Office on Sunday, Trump in social-media posts and interviews.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 15 July 2024
• In 2020, record turnout among Black voters in battleground states delivered the Oval Office to Biden.
  — Briana Stewart, ABC News, 22 June 2024
• There are benefits in having someone share the immense stress and that comes with being in the Oval Office, experts said.
  — Gabriella Abdul-Hakim, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2023
• On the other, last season’s arc about Ellen coming out of the closet while serving in the Oval Office felt a bit disconnected from the rest of the series.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2023
• Biden has made no secret of his admiration for Chavez — there is a bust of the civil rights leader behind his desk in the Oval Office.
  — Alejandra Molina, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• An open war with Trumpism is one academia cannot win, but the potential of his looming return to the Oval Office is also not to be ignored.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024
• If Trump returns to the Oval Office, his instinct to crush critics and stack the executive branch with yes men will likely get even stronger.
  — Malcolm Turnbull, Foreign Affairs, 31 May 2024
• Whether in the Oval Office or on the playground, giving in to bullies encourages more bullying.
  — Malcolm Turnbull, Foreign Affairs, 31 May 2024
• Never got to one when her father occupied the Oval Office, either.
  — Tim Reynolds, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2023
• The president's intelligence hub is located on the ground floor of the West Wing — one level beneath the Oval Office.
  — Kyler Alvord, Peoplemag, 28 May 2024
• Voters have a long history of blaming whoever is sitting in the Oval Office, fair or not.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 19 Sep. 2023
• Now, over a decade later and both eyeing the Oval Office, their exchange at the debate brought a quietly brewing cold war to a simmering boil.
  — Abby Cruz, ABC News, 11 Nov. 2023
• The potential scale of that scandal has diminished now that the country is no longer being asked to entrust the Oval Office to Biden for another four years.
  — Ross Douthat, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2024
• Advertisement Harris came across as a tough scrapper who could think on her feet and conceivably handle the rigors of the Oval Office.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024