Explore Lobbied through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Lobbied meaning
simple past and past participle of lobby
Using Lobbied
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of lobby
- In the example corpus, lobbied often appears in combinations such as: lobbied for, lobbied to, lobbied the.
Context around Lobbied
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 13 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lobbied
- In this selection, "lobbied" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, companies, clearly, anyone, acoba, mps and ministers stand out and add context to how "lobbied" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include air he lobbied mr trump and also successfully lobbied the administration. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lobbied" sits close to words such as authoritative, bayer and bethel, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lobbied
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And she clearly lobbied with those Planning Commission connections. (9 words)
Debs' supporters, including film star Mae West, lobbied to get him pardoned. (12 words)
Off-air, he lobbied Mr. Trump to give Mr. Vance his endorsement. (12 words)
Ivy became the first winner of a category created for spoken-word poetry albums with his fourth album, “The Poet Who Sat By the Door,” after he had lobbied for the creation of the category for more than half a decade. (41 words)
Government figures had lobbied Acoba to impose a waiting period of 12 months after complaints about Ms Gray’s move to join the Labour leader after leading a high-profile investigation into Boris Johnson over lockdown breaches in No 10. (40 words)
Shortly before she died at the age of 82 (still living at the same address, but no longer hosting the parties), Payne is said to have lobbied Andrew Lloyd Webber to make a musical about her. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
After giving millions of dollars to Senate Republicans this year, fossil fuel companies lobbied for cuts to the Energy Department’s renewables office and reductions in energy efficiency standards.
And she clearly lobbied with those Planning Commission connections.
Anytime anyone lobbied to maybe lose it because they didn't know what it meant.
Being the PA of the Union Minister, he called both the IAS and lobbied for tender in the school.
Coun North said that while representing Mossley Coun Sharif had fought off ‘inappropriate’ planning applications, helped resolve education and housing issues and lobbied for better bus services.
Debs' supporters, including film star Mae West, lobbied to get him pardoned.
Government figures had lobbied Acoba to impose a waiting period of 12 months after complaints about Ms Gray’s move to join the Labour leader after leading a high-profile investigation into Boris Johnson over lockdown breaches in No 10.
He added that politicians in a democracy are lobbied by all sides of politics and various interest groups on a constant basis.
He also successfully lobbied the administration of former U.S. President George W. Bush to pour money into the nuclear-armed nation’s military, which remains one of the most powerful in South Asia.
I could only stay here for three years with my permit, and I helped lobbied MPs to reform this policy.
Ivy became the first winner of a category created for spoken-word poetry albums with his fourth album, “The Poet Who Sat By the Door,” after he had lobbied for the creation of the category for more than half a decade.
Local MPs Antony Higginbotham and Naz Shah have both lobbied the government to get involved in Kelsey's case - but the family have still seen no progress.
Lord Cameron also faces questions over the Greensill affair, in which he privately lobbied ministers in an attempt to win Greensill Capital access to an emergency coronavirus loan scheme.
Martin, who has lobbied Idaho legislators to change faith healing exemptions, told the Statesman she believes Lodge was key in blocking previous legislation.
Nashvillians lobbied to build a permanent replica of the Greek temple on the site, now a public park.
Off-air, he lobbied Mr. Trump to give Mr. Vance his endorsement.
Police and sheriffs across the state have lobbied the Legislature to do all this, none of them more than Charleston officials.
Schnellenberger raised $13 million in pledges, lobbied state lawmakers for support and coined the phrase “football in paradise” as a recruiting tool.
Senators who will act as jurors in the impeachment trial of the attorney general are being lobbied and targeted by political groups.
Shortly before she died at the age of 82 (still living at the same address, but no longer hosting the parties), Payne is said to have lobbied Andrew Lloyd Webber to make a musical about her.
Common combinations with lobbied
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- lobbied for 58×
- lobbied to 27×
- lobbied the 27×
- have lobbied 16×
- and lobbied 12×
- he lobbied 12×
- had lobbied 11×
- successfully lobbied 10×
- has lobbied 10×
- lobbied hard 8×