How to Use vice presidency in a Sentence

vice presidency

noun
  • That’s been true about the vice presidency for decades.
    Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 13 Dec. 2021
  • The vice presidency, alas, is a tough place to stage a comeback.
    Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Trump wanted to weaponize the vice presidency to try to stay in power.
    CBS News, 12 June 2022
  • Both were lawyers and came to the vice presidency after serving in the Senate.
    Brenda J. Child and Cathleen Cahill, Star Tribune, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Her election to the U.S. vice presidency is the capstone of the racial reckoning of 2020.
    National Geographic, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Some of the documents date back to his time in the Senate and others to his vice presidency.
    Olivia Gazis, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Johnson won the vice presidency, Bentsen lost to Dan Quayle.
    Dallas News, 20 Feb. 2023
  • For nearly 40 years, a private lunch with the president was a bedrock of the vice presidency.
    Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2022
  • Some of that has nothing to do with Harris and everything to do with the vice presidency.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2022
  • She's looked to Biden's own vice presidency as a model.
    Kevin Liptak, CNN, 25 Apr. 2021
  • The vice presidency of the United States is a terrible job.
    Joel Mathis, The Week, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Sounds like a typical route to the vice presidency, to be honest.
    Brett McGinness, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Harris is the first Black woman elected to the vice presidency.
    NBC News, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Calhoun resigned from the vice presidency in 1832 to take a Senate seat.
    Charlotte Allen, Washington Examiner, 18 Feb. 2021
  • In 2016, when being considered for the vice presidency, Pence told Trump not to expect a killer on the ticket.
    T.a. Frank, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
  • The school board later voted to remove her from committees and stripped her of the vice presidency for the remarks.
    Roland Li, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Biden worked there in the years following his vice presidency.
    Sarah Kolinovsky, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The candidate with the second most was given the vice presidency.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Stephen Henriques, TIME, 6 July 2024
  • Republicans need a net gain of two seats to flip the Senate outright, or a net gain of one seat plus the tie-breaking vice presidency.
    Sahil Kapur, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Merkel in turn noted the historic nature of the Harris vice presidency.
    Frank Jordans and Alexandra Jaffe, chicagotribune.com, 15 July 2021
  • If someone questions her life choices, ask the questions back, why does that matter to the vice presidency?
    Lauren Leader, NBC News, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Harris will make history as the country's first woman and black person to hold the office of the vice presidency.
    Mica Soellner, Washington Examiner, 19 Jan. 2021
  • Biden had left the vice presidency only a month before, according to Hunter Biden.
    Jack Durschlag, Fox News, 5 Apr. 2021
  • The story of how Biden became a wealthy man in the wake of his vice presidency, leveraging his fame to sell books and deliver speeches, has been told many times.
    Michela Tindera, Forbes, 10 June 2021
  • Cheatle worked with the Bidens during Biden’s vice presidency.
    Joseph Abrams, Fortune, 15 July 2024
  • The Corvette Stingray, which was maintained by Mr. Biden’s sons during his vice presidency, was a surprise wedding present from his father.
    Alan Rappeport, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Many fewer, 27 percent, say the same about Biden after his vice presidency.
    Gary Langer, ABC News, 4 Feb. 2023
  • The bill signing came nearly six years after Biden began pushing for the issue toward the end of his vice presidency.
    Amy B Wang, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2022
  • There were no mentions of her vice presidency or the Biden administration.
    W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 23 July 2024
  • Passing over the first woman and first person of color to fill the vice presidency would be politically tricky for a party that relies on those constituencies at the ballot box.
    Brian Bennett, TIME, 21 July 2024

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