How To Use canvassing In A Sentence
- The council has been canvassing local opinion/local people to get their thoughts on the proposed housing development.
- And he aims to ensure he wins in Greece by spending the next month canvassing for votes in rival countries. The Sun
- "We were hopeful when we were going round Walcot canvassing, " he said.
- Instead of staying indoors, healthily watching a black and white screen – Grandstand, Hancock, Terry and June – they were out canvassing, attending ward meetings, collecting ministers' autographs, drafting position papers and generally behaving in a way unbefitting to young persons. The Ed Balls roadshow: enough to make you weep
- By canvassing text votes, it gives Afghans a blast of popular democracy as well as promoting unity between tribes and ethnic factions. Times, Sunday Times
- The Broward County Canvassing Board was able to identify a vote for president in essentially 1 out of every 4 of the ballots that the canvassing board looked at that had started out as an undervote or nonvote. CNN Transcript - Special Event: Gore Legal Legal Team Holds News Briefing - November 30, 2000
- But there was a scattergun effect even in the more efficient Conservative campaign where millions were spent on direct mail and telephone canvassing of the swing voters.
- They enforced the necessity of uniform assentation, in order to lull the Mirabeau party, who were canvassing for a majority to set up D'ORLEANS, to whose interest Mirabeau and his myrmidons were then devoted. Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe — Volume 6
- Wearing a camel coat he was canvassing voters as they went to cast their ballot. Times, Sunday Times
- Led by a police band, crowds of marching people will be canvassing support for this cause or that cause. Times, Sunday Times
