Below you will find example sentences with "ballot box". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Ballot Box in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: box
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 6
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 28.2 words

Words in this phrase

ballot box

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • ballot can mean: A small ball placed in a container to cast a vote; now, by extension, a piece of paper or card used for this purpose, or some other means... Frequent word
  • box can mean: Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space. Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

in a ballot box 2× abortion abolition ballot box referenda should 1× at the ballot box 1× at the ballot box for over 1× in a ballot box vote early 1× in the ballot box 1× in the ballot box located at 1× in the ballot box with my 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

an angled tube 1× an election official 1× but voters across 1× complete abortion abolition 1× contents of a 1× critics of codifying 1×

Common sentence endings:

a ballot box 2× the ballot box 2× at the library 1× be counted 100 1× before being sorted 1× conservatives feel worse 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

vote 4× put 4× off 3× first 3× voter 3× recount 3× voters 3× fill 2× drop 2× person 2× election 2× don 2×

Related phrases

box office ballot papers absentee ballot drop box donation box ballot paper ballot boxes black box mail ballot box containing

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around box:

black box 8×

Just before it in the phrase index:

ballistic missiles ballistic missile ball super ball carrier baldur gate bald eagles

Just after it in the phrase index:

ballot boxes ballot paper ballot papers bally sports baltimore city baltimore county

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

ballot papers ballot paper ballot boxes

Same ending:

drop box donation box black box

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "ballot box" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 28.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as in a ballot box, abortion abolition ballot box referenda should, vote, put and off stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with box office, ballot papers, absentee ballot and black box, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with ballot box

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box. (9 words)

Thuggery, ballot box snatching and ballot stuffing and other forms of irregularities were rife. (14 words)

An election official hands back to a voter her marked ballot to place in a ballot box. (17 words)

Longer example sentences

If you can’t even fill out a ballot, send it in with free postage, drop it off in a ballot box, vote early or vote in person or drop your ballot off at the polls on election day (more options than we’ve ever had) you obviously don’t care. (51 words)

Critics of codifying a right to contraception say such legislation amounts to a solution without a problem — or is purely a political gesture meant to put Republicans in a difficult spot and spur voters into rejecting them at the ballot box. (41 words)

Funk at first claimed she suspected an intruder had broken into the Flint Township hall and vandalized the ballot box seal, but no-contest in January 2023 to felony misconduct of office, which carries a five-year maximum prison sentence. (40 words)

Example sentences (20)

If you can’t even fill out a ballot, send it in with free postage, drop it off in a ballot box, vote early or vote in person or drop your ballot off at the polls on election day (more options than we’ve ever had) you obviously don’t care.

If the new reform does not take care of the ballot box; in other words eliminate ballot box system and collation centers at various intermediate levels like ward and local government, it will then be useless.

The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box.

Thuggery, ballot box snatching and ballot stuffing and other forms of irregularities were rife.

I should put the ballot paper in the ballot box with my hand and in this way, the votes cast should be counted 100%.

Simply put it in the the ballot envelope, talk to the nearby elections officer, and put the backup vote in the ballot box.

The tradition was first organized by prominent resident Neil Tillotson, who was traditionally the first voter and would hold his ballot over the ballot box while watching his wristwatch, dropping it at the stroke of midnight.

To vote in person you must go to a polling place and fill out the ballot you are given and place it in a ballot box.

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An election official hands back to a voter her marked ballot to place in a ballot box.

Once all 12 homes have been located, the completed ballot with addresses should be placed in the ballot box located at the library.

An angled tube was fastened to the ballot box, which conducted the pellets to the corresponding side of the box.

The result of the General and Regional Recount of each ballot box is recorded as provided for on a Statement of Recount (SOR) upon the completion of the recount of each box.

Contents of a smaller transparent ballot box being turned into a bigger transparent box before being sorted.

But voters across the country have repeatedly gone to the ballot box to defend abortion access and, in some swing states, they have said it's a key issue and favor Democrats on it.

Complete abortion abolition ballot box referenda should thus be avoided, for the time being, for all but the very deepest of deep-red states.

Critics of codifying a right to contraception say such legislation amounts to a solution without a problem — or is purely a political gesture meant to put Republicans in a difficult spot and spur voters into rejecting them at the ballot box.

Expanding Boston’s municipal voting population to foreign citizens and residents undermines the meaning of citizenship and is an insult to Black Americans who fought to have their voices heard at the ballot box for over half a century.

Funk at first claimed she suspected an intruder had broken into the Flint Township hall and vandalized the ballot box seal, but no-contest in January 2023 to felony misconduct of office, which carries a five-year maximum prison sentence.

He also specifically noted the John Robert Lewis Voting Rights Act, which would expand access to the ballot box for those that have been historically disenfranchised by onerous voter ID laws.

If hard-pressed voters don't feel better off by the time they get to the ballot box, they will make sure the Conservatives feel worse.

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