Below you will find example sentences with "gerald ford". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Gerald Ford in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: ford
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 8
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 27.7 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 11 start, 6 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "gerald ford" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 27.7 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as better than gerald ford who was, during the gerald ford administration characters, president, carter and 1976 stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with ford motor, francis ford and ford motor, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with gerald ford
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Better than Gerald Ford, who was eaten by wolves. (9 words)
Five years later, he was elected to run the entire nation, defeating Republican incumbent Gerald Ford. (16 words)
In 1974, when President Gerald Ford enlisted Americans in a fight to “Whip Inflation Now,” it worked. (17 words)
Sesno said he can understand the Biden team’s worry that the president’s fitness for the job becomes a story they lose control of, much like former President Gerald Ford’s stumbles led to the perception that he was a bumbler. (42 words)
Jimmy Carter Gerald Ford 1976 Presidential Election in the United States, Results by Congressional District Despite his campaign's blunders, Ford managed to close the remaining gap in the polls and by election day the race was judged to be even. (41 words)
By 1940, the Bund’s isolationist mission was taken up by the America First Committee, a more mainstream organization, founded at Yale and including future presidents John F. Kennedy and Gerald Ford as well as anti-Semites like Henry Ford. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
During the Gerald Ford administration, characters would be shown speaking to Ford at press conferences, and fictional dialogue supposedly spoken by Ford would be written as coming "off-panel".
In 1974, Republican President Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon, a decision so radically unpopular that it led to Ford’s subsequent defeat.
By 1940, the Bund’s isolationist mission was taken up by the America First Committee, a more mainstream organization, founded at Yale and including future presidents John F. Kennedy and Gerald Ford as well as anti-Semites like Henry Ford.
File:Photograph of President Gerald Ford and First Lady Betty Ford Walking with Their Daughter Susan and Their Dog..
Gerald Ford was the first vice president selected by this method, after the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew in 1973; after succeeding to the presidency, Ford nominated Nelson Rockefeller as vice president.
Jimmy Carter Gerald Ford 1976 Presidential Election in the United States, Results by Congressional District Despite his campaign's blunders, Ford managed to close the remaining gap in the polls and by election day the race was judged to be even.
Better than Gerald Ford, who was eaten by wolves.
Carter became the 39th U.S. president after he defeated incumbent Republican Gerald Ford in the 1976 election.
In 1974, when President Gerald Ford enlisted Americans in a fight to “Whip Inflation Now,” it worked.
The first involved former President Gerald Ford, who would sign the so-called Helsinki Accords with more than 30 other nations in 1975.
The veiled threat was surely directed at Iran, as America deployed two nuclear-powered aircraft carriers - the USS Gerald Ford and USS Dwight D Eisenhower - to the eastern Mediterranean Sea along with the carriers' supporting strike groups.
Five years later, he was elected to run the entire nation, defeating Republican incumbent Gerald Ford.
Gerald Ford faced two assassination attempts within weeks in 1975 and was not hurt in either incident.
In 1976, Jimmy Carter was thought to have trounced Gerald Ford, who made a gaffe in describing the status of eastern Europe, but Carter’s presidency was largely unsuccessful.
Reagan led a harder-charging presidential bid in 1976, almost nabbing the nomination from President Gerald Ford, vice president for eight months before assuming the presidency after Nixon resigned over the Watergate scandal.
Sesno said he can understand the Biden team’s worry that the president’s fitness for the job becomes a story they lose control of, much like former President Gerald Ford’s stumbles led to the perception that he was a bumbler.
The year was 1976, and Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter was running for president against Gerald Ford, who had assumed the presidency after Richard Nixon resigned from office in August of 1974.
Gerald Ford claimed there was “no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe” in his first 1976 debate with Jimmy Carter, a gaffe that would help doom his re-election chances.
Gerald Ford, his immediate successor Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush all lost their second-term bids in large part because the economy was on shaky ground when voters headed for the polls.
Just the fourth-ever episode of the NBC late-night comedy show “Saturday Night Live” featured a parody skit of the 1976 presidential debate between sitting Republican President Gerald Ford and Democratic nominee Jimmy Carter.