Wondering how to use Chads in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning .
Chads meaning
plural of chad
Using Chads
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of chad
- In the example corpus, chads often appears in combinations such as: hanging chads, chads on, chads in.
Context around Chads
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 11 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Chads
- In this selection, "chads" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, hanging, john, pregnant, voting, soon and suspension stand out and add context to how "chads" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about hanging chads soon and and hanging chads. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "chads" sits close to words such as aaditya, aardman and abbo, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with chads
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I anticipate that we will hear about “hanging chads” soon. (10 words)
President John Chads showed considerable personal courage, but little judgement or tact. (12 words)
We didn’t even have chads on our ballots, neither hanging nor pregnant. (13 words)
I remember very well the dog days of November and December of 2000, when the knife fights were waged over dimpled, dangling, and pregnant chads on election cards in Broward, Palm Beach, Volusia, and Miami-Dade counties in Florida. (39 words)
The counting of ballots was a problem in 2000 because of hanging chads on computer voting cards, but so far in 2020, the counting of ballots is continuing apace this week and would conclude in a few days. (38 words)
The 2000 elections between Al Gore and George Bush were only finalized more than a month after election day due to recounts, disputes over mail-in ballots and “hanging chads”. (30 words)
Example sentences (18)
If you did not understand the ballot paper you were probably too stupid to have your vote count (like the Democrats in Florida with the hanging chads).
While the final results can sometimes be controversial, there's no risk of hanging chads - voting takes place entirely online.
I anticipate that we will hear about “hanging chads” soon.
I remember very well the dog days of November and December of 2000, when the knife fights were waged over dimpled, dangling, and pregnant chads on election cards in Broward, Palm Beach, Volusia, and Miami-Dade counties in Florida.
Much has been made of the controversies surrounding the butterfly ballot, hanging chads, suspension of vote counting and so on.
There was the infamous 2000 Bush-Gore contest that came down to recounts of hanging chads in Florida.
But the standards for counting the infamous “hanging chads” – incomplete marks on those punch card ballots – varied from county to county.
Canada is flush with Brads, Chads and Justins and could use a little mediation from a responsible French boy.
The 2000 elections between Al Gore and George Bush were only finalized more than a month after election day due to recounts, disputes over mail-in ballots and “hanging chads”.
The counting of ballots was a problem in 2000 because of hanging chads on computer voting cards, but so far in 2020, the counting of ballots is continuing apace this week and would conclude in a few days.
There will be more hanging candidates than hanging chads in this Democrat mishandled election.
We didn’t even have chads on our ballots, neither hanging nor pregnant.
While the internet directory is fun, real-life Karens (or Beckys, Debbies, Chads and Kyles) bear the brunt of the jokes.
Three years earlier, narrowly won the 2000 US presidential election after a recount in Florida and a debacle involving hanging chads.
You will find no paeans to Dana Katherine Scully or takedowns of bridge-and-tunnel Chads here.
By 3 August 1853, the only white people remaining in the Territory were John Chads himself, the Collector of Customs, a Methodist missionary and the island's doctor.
President John Chads showed considerable personal courage, but little judgement or tact.
The rectangular, round, or oval bits of paper punched out were called chad (chads) or chips (in IBM usage).
Common combinations with chads
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- hanging chads 11×
- chads on 3×
- chads in 2×
- chads and 2×
- john chads 2×