Get to know Poll better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like canvass or top.
Poll in a sentence
Related words
Poll meaning
- A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
- A formal vote held in order to ascertain the most popular choice.
- A polling place (usually as plural, polling places)
Synonyms of Poll
Using Poll
- The main meaning on this page is: A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion. | A formal vote held in order to ascertain the most popular choice. | A polling place (usually as plural, polling places)
- Useful related words include: canvass, top, top side, upper side.
- In the example corpus, poll often appears in combinations such as: the poll, poll after, after poll.
Context around Poll
- Average sentence length in these examples: 32.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 12 start, 7 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Poll
- In this selection, "poll" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 32.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, national, news, governorship, shows, taxes and showed stand out and add context to how "poll" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1 2 poll both within, 16 july poll and trump, new poll, poll released and poll shows. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "poll" sits close to words such as cloud, custody and viewers, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with poll
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I think the poll right now is to poll. (9 words)
An ABC News poll/Ipsos poll on Monday showed Harris leading Trump 50 to 46 per cent. (17 words)
In Iowa, New Hampshire, but also every national poll and every state primary poll, Trump’s leading by a lot. (20 words)
Since the result of the first poll is already known, the outcome of the second poll can be predicted well and the results should not contain much new information; in this case the entropy of the second poll result is small relative to the first. (45 words)
If that is true that that is what they’re going to do, then a lot of people think that John Roberts, who is certainly well aware that the credibility of the court has collapsed to the lowest level ever recorded in poll after poll. (45 words)
A recent Harvard Institute of Politics Youth Poll shows that Gaza ranks 15th on the list of top issues facing young voters, well below the economy and immigration The same poll found that 51% of young Americans support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. (43 words)
Example sentences (20)
But Christie has not yet met the polling threshold requirement, where candidates must either poll at least 6 percent in two national polls or poll at 6 percent in one national poll and in two separate early state polls.
The Mainstreet poll showed only a slight decline but that poll concluded on the 19th, meaning the blackface story was only in play for the last 24-hours of that three-day poll.
A major contention concerned the poll tax provisions; the Senate version allowed the Attorney General to sue states that used poll taxes to discriminate, while the House version outright banned all poll taxes.
In other words, the outcome of the poll is relatively unpredictable, and actually performing the poll and learning the results gives some new information; these are just different ways of saying that the entropy of the poll results is large.
Since the result of the first poll is already known, the outcome of the second poll can be predicted well and the results should not contain much new information; in this case the entropy of the second poll result is small relative to the first.
Addressing an election rally at Tandur in poll-bound Telangana, he highlighted the six poll guarantees announced by the Congress and exuded confidence that his party would come to power.
I think the poll right now is to poll.
More broadly, Trump's favorable/unfavorable ratings with Americans remain severely underwater according to the latest poll: 31% favorable and 55% unfavorable -- essentially unchanged from the previous poll.
Straw poll, also known as straw ballot, is usually an ad hoc poll carried out to determine the slant of opinion on an issue or popularity of an individual or group of persons within a community.
The former President’s commanding lead in poll after poll ultimately led to his decision not to participate in the Republican National Committee’s presidential debates, media reports said.
The NBC News poll shows only 40% of registered voters approve of Biden’s job performance, and 57% disapprove, which is an all-time low for Biden in this poll since becoming president.
This was as a result of her poor handling of the polls and as a result, she cannot be trusted to deliver a Participatory and credible Governorship Poll in Imo State during the Nov 11, 2023 Governorship Poll.
An ABC News poll/Ipsos poll on Monday showed Harris leading Trump 50 to 46 per cent.
A recent Harvard Institute of Politics Youth Poll shows that Gaza ranks 15th on the list of top issues facing young voters, well below the economy and immigration The same poll found that 51% of young Americans support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
Before Lee began his waterboarding poll Saturday, the senator conducted a similar poll, asking Republicans which they’d chose if forced to listen to KSL or NPR.
But the whispers and anxiousness within the Democratic Party haven’t died down as poll after poll shows Biden with the kinds of numbers that typically are perilous for presidents seeking reelection.
Harris and Trump were tied at 44% in a 15-16 July poll, and Trump led by one percentage point in a July 1-2 poll, both within the same margin of error.
He continued: “You see this in poll after poll… The economy is the most important issue, but when you go down and look at issues that are moving enthusiasm, it is this abortion issue.
If that is true that that is what they’re going to do, then a lot of people think that John Roberts, who is certainly well aware that the credibility of the court has collapsed to the lowest level ever recorded in poll after poll.
In Iowa, New Hampshire, but also every national poll and every state primary poll, Trump’s leading by a lot.
Phrases with poll
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with poll
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the poll 43×
- poll after 12×
- after poll 12×
- poll of 11×
- poll shows 10×
- poll released 10×
- new poll 10×
- news poll 8×
- poll and 8×
- in poll 8×