How do you use elections in a sentence?

The elections were in reality merely parliamentarism.

What is an example of elections?

But there must be no more elections until the right time.

As it was, there had been too many elections already.

As soon as the elections were over, he left me in peace.

plural of election

7. The elections were hoped for in December. 🔊
8. I suppose the Elections have put a stop to most things? 🔊
9. Under those circumstances no elections could be carried on with liberty. 🔊
10. He was out of office in a few months, and then the general elections came on. 🔊
11. All subsequent elections to take place every year thereafter. 🔊
12. He spoke about the general elections which had just taken place.... 🔊

13. Chambres une loi qui réglât les élections des députés des départements. 🔊
14. Mr. Schwefel, don't you think elections are mere folly? 🔊
15. The last elections had given a strong Republican majority to the Senate. 🔊

1. The elections of those days would have been a joke had they been not so tragically significant. 🔊
2. At popular elections the most rigorous casuists will remit a little of their severity. 🔊
3. Out of seven elections since the beginning of the session the Government had lost four. 🔊
4. They vote at school elections and on certain questions of taxation in twenty-eight States. 🔊
5. The elections actually took place in the last part of February of the year 1796. 🔊
6. But the Congressional elections of 1914 had conveyed a warning to the Democrats. 🔊
7. The Whitehall had a leader before the Elections were well over to say that he must ... 🔊
8. At the courts of elections of 1631, 1632, and 1633 Winthrop was re-elected governor. 🔊

9. The result of the elections in Ohio and Indiana had aroused and confirmed their hopes of success. 🔊
10. The elections took place in October-November, 1877, and gave at once a great Republican majority. 🔊
11. A province is formed, and elections held, at which Juan de San Geronimo is chosen provincial. 🔊
12. He evidently regarded his personal interference in the elections as a thing upon which he ought to plume himself. 🔊
13. And now this news as to the result of the elections seemed to fully justify their determination to retain him in office. 🔊
14. It cannot be otherwise, whilst the spirit of elections and the tendencies of human nature continue as they are. 🔊
15. I cannot doubt that an unwholesome change in the use of money in elections has taken place in the last fifty years. 🔊
16. The coming fall elections are important; consequently the caucuses held this spring were of some moment. 🔊

17. The latter point of view was that of the younger and more irresponsible section of the community, which liked elections because they were exciting. 🔊
18. Ah, but in our class elections do we vote for the candidate who will best fill the office, or for our friends? 🔊
19. Then followed masses and various other ceremonies, including the creation of a municipality and the elections of officers thereto. 🔊
20. The conversational persuasion at elections is perfectly human and rational; it is the silent persuasions that are utterly damnable. 🔊
21. He left elections to the people; and when these proved a failure, a new constitution became a necessity. 🔊
22. The elections would be tranquil, with "scrimmages" here and there; they would not be elections without. 🔊
23. The elections of 1864 had resulted in a two-thirds majority and it was therefore certain that the resolution would be agreed to by the next House. 🔊
24. The court then consented to his departure, and a court of elections was called for December 15 to supply the vacancy caused by his resignation. 🔊

25. Arkansas and Texas to hear from, and elections are to be held in the six remaining States. 🔊