Use candidate in a sentence
Sentences ending with candidate
- You will understand when I tell you I have lived a life of agony ever since you became a candidate. [11]
- All the morning these continued to came in, and form in line to march past their particular candidate. [9]
- The Democrats, in their national convention, declared the war a failure, demanded, substantially, peace at any price, and nominated on such a platform General McClellan as their candidate. [7]
- He will be the Chicago candidate. [7]
- The train made several stops, and at each of them shoals of country people filled the aisles, and paused for a most familiar chat with the senatorial candidate. [9]
- In Hull the other day, out of a population of two thousand, twenty men elected four delegates for the railroad candidate. [9]
- A favorite way of theirs is to play a friendly swindle upon the candidate. [5]
- Now, he'd be my notion of a candidate. [9]
- I was to make addresses at two halls, alternating with Parks, the mayoralty candidate. [9]
- Then she added, in a louder tone, "Ladies, if you will kindly tell me your names, I shall be happy to introduce you to the candidate. [9]
Short sentences using candidate
- You're my candidate for governor. [9]
- Look upon your candidate, Independents! [5]
Sentences containing candidate two or more times
- Parks, the Republican candidate, did not denounce Mr. MacGuire, the Democratic candidate. [9]
- We prefer a candidate who, like General Taylor, will allow the people to have their own way, regardless of his private opinions; and I should think the internal-improvement Democrats, at least, ought to prefer such a candidate. [7]
More example sentences with the word candidate in them
- You Democrats, and your candidate, in the main are in favor of laying down in advance a platform--a set of party positions--as a unit, and then of forcing the people, by every sort of appliance, to ratify them, however unpalatable some of them may be. [7]
- I do not wish to say anything as to who shall be the Republican candidate for the Legislature in your district, further than that I have full confidence in Dr. [7]
- The Nebraska men were very confident of the election of Matteson, though denying that he was a candidate, and we very much believing also that they would elect him. [7]
- Every patrician who was past the age of thirty, had the right to become a candidate yearly for the office. [10]
- In 1850 a very clever gentleman by the name of Thompson Campbell, a personal friend of Judge Douglas and myself, a political friend of Judge Douglas and opponent of mine, was a candidate for Congress in the Galena District. [7]
- I was wholly unaware that Mr. Vallandigham was, at the time of his arrest, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor until so informed by your reading to me the resolutions of the convention. [7]
- It is an unanswerable argument to this effect that no candidate for any office whatever, high or low, has ventured to seek votes on the avowal that he was for giving up the Union. [7]
- The tide was turning, and the candidate from Leith redoubled his efforts. [9]
- Then the candidate turned about, as on a pivot, seized Mr. Vane by the knee, and looked into his face. [9]
- They were ready to "burst a meeting" or bludgeon a candidate on occasion. [11]
- He had, in the telegram, merely urged the senator himself to see Mr. Hunt, and to make one more attempt to restrain the loyalty to that candidate of Messrs. Bascom and Botcher. [9]
- The whim of the senatorial candidate in choosing him for a companion he did not then try to account for. [9]
- The news of the probable advent of Mr. Giles Henderson on the field, as well as the tidings of his actual consent to be a candidate, were not slow in reaching Leith. [9]
- He is like the man who has once been a candidate for the Presidency. [6]
- Said I was the man to see if you was a candidate, didn't he? [9]
- First, there was the Kingston meeting, with the candidate, his thumb in his watch-pocket, seated in an open carriage beside Mr. Hamilton Tooting,--a carriage draped with a sheet on which was painted "Down with Railroad Ring Rule. [9]
- Hunt appeared as that which has come to be known as the 'regular' candidate, Mr. Flint sent for him to go to New York and exacted certain promises from him. [9]
- They tell me that there may be another candidate in the field--a dark horse. [9]
- Hunt to reach that candidate, who continued to smoke in tranquillity on the porch of his home until the fifteenth day of August. [9]
- It was very stupid of me not to realize the scruples which made you refuse to be a candidate for the governorship, and I wanted to--to apologize. [9]
- He has been secretly a candidate ever since (before, even) the fall election. [7]
- They don't exactly say they won't vote for V.B., but they say he will not be the candidate, and that they are for Texas anyhow. [7]
- Jethro himself had said so, that he would be happy to abdicate in Chester's favor, and make it unanimous--Chester having been a candidate so many times, and disappointed. [9]
- I'll tell you right now I'm a candidate for the Chairman of the Selectmen, if town meetin' is eight months away. [9]
- He and the Republican candidate made an agreement that the defeated man should be publicly presented with a fifty-pound sack of flour by the successful one, and should carry it home on his shoulder. [5]
- The fifth resolution recommends that a Whig candidate for Congress be run in every district, regardless of the chances of success. [7]
- Resolved, That we recommend to the Whigs of each Congressional district of the State to nominate and support at the approaching election a candidate of their own principles, regardless of the chances of success. [7]
- Last year he presided at the convention which nominated the Democratic candidate for Congress in this district, and afterward ran for the State Senate himself, not desiring the seat, but avowedly to aid and strengthen his party. [7]
- It was Mrs. Pomfret who led the applause from her box as the candidate walked modestly up the side aisle and presently appeared, alone, on the stage. [9]
- Chester was Jethro's own candidate for senior Selectman! [9]
- Hardin, or some other Morgan candidate, will get Putnam, Marshall, Woodford, Tazewell, and Logan--making sixteen. [7]
- My opinion--if my opinion is of any consequence in this case, in which it is no business of mine to interfere--remains unchanged, that running an independent candidate against Lovejoy will not do; that it will result in nothing but disaster all round. [7]
- Orion Clemens was once more a candidate for office: Nevada had become a State; with regularly elected officials, and Orion had somehow missed being chosen. [5]
- Had your party omitted to make Nebraska a test of party fidelity, you probably would have been the Democratic candidate for Congress in the district. [7]
- A candidate for office must have marked ability, education, and high character, or he stood no sort of chance of election. [5]
- On the arrival of the candidate, instead of a surging crowd lining the sidewalk, he found only a fringe of the curious, whose usual post of observation was the railroad station, standing silently on the curb. [9]
- In his advocacy of the candidate with whom, and the government of which he became the head, his relations became afterwards so full of personal antagonism, he spoke as a man of his ardent nature might be expected to speak on such an occasion. [6]
- A former schoolmate of mine, by the name of Reuel Gridley, was living at the little city of Austin, in the Reese river country, at this time, and was the Democratic candidate for mayor. [5]
- On the 28th of February of the same year a Democratic District Convention was held at Naperville to nominate a candidate for Circuit Judge. [7]
- Nay, the campaign of education has already borne fruit, which the candidate did not hesitate to mention in his talks Edmundton has more trains, Kingston has more trains, and more cars. [9]
- Then came carryalls of all ages and degrees, wagons from this county and that county, giddily draped, drawn by horses from one to six, or by mules, their inscriptions addressing their senatorial candidate in all degrees of familiarity, but not contempt. [9]
- And Phil had observed, with the earnestness which marked his more serious statements, that it wouldn't surprise him if young Carter, Hubbell's candidate for mayor, overturned that autumn the Beatty machine. [9]
- He would force nothing on them which they don't want, and he would allow them to have improvements which their own candidate, if elected, will not. [7]
- The ceremony was not unlike that at Cambridge, but had one peculiar feature: the separate special investment of the candidate with the _hood_, which Johnson defines as "an ornamental fold which hangs down the back of a graduate. [6]
- I begged that my candidate might be examined. [5]
- She confessed as much to me, who am in her confidence, and not a candidate for graduation from her academy. [6]
- If the remark mentioned by the candidate tallies with it, give him the money, and ask no further questions, for he is certainly the right man. [5]
- However much you may be distressed about our candidate, you have all cause to be contented and happy with your own. [7]
- They agitated, they made domiciliary visits, they wrote notes to influential citizens, and finally announced as their candidate the young lady who had won and worn the school name of "The Terror," who was elected. [6]
- Stephen could understand likewise the vehemence of the Republican leaders who crowded around their candidate and tried to get him to retract that Question. [9]
- I think I know now why you would not consent to be a candidate, and I respect you for it. [9]
- There is a Judge Mayo in that county, who is a candidate for the Legislature, for the purpose, if he secures his election, of helping to re-elect Judge Douglas. [7]
- She cannot bear it to them inside the college, for the reason that she does not allow a sick candidate to get in. [5]
- The distinction between it and the position of your candidate is broad and obvious, and I admit you have a clear right to show it is wrong if you can; but you have no right to pretend you cannot see it at all. [7]
- You say that in choosing a candidate for Congress you have an equal right with Sangamon, and in this you are undoubtedly correct. [7]
- I understand your idea that if a Presidential candidate avow his opinion upon a given question, or rather upon all questions, and the people, with full knowledge of this, elect him, they thereby distinctly approve all those opinions. [7]
- I suppose if I made such a levelling confession as this in public, people would think I was looking towards being the labor-reform candidate for President. [6]
- So he threw himself into an approved scientific attitude, and, in brief, emphatic language, expressed his urgent anxiety to accommodate any classical young gentleman who chose to consider himself a candidate for his attentions. [6]
- I never saw him, but suppose him to be able and right-minded; but still he may not be the most suitable as a candidate for the Presidency. [7]
- A conference was held at Leith between the candidate, Mr. Tooting, and the Honourable Timothy Watling of Newcastle, who was preparing the nominating speech, although the convention was more than two months distant. [9]
- The same year he offered himself as a candidate for the Legislature of Illinois, but failed at the polls. [7]
- The two months have passed, I heard day before yesterday that a new and almost unknown candidate had suddenly turned up on the inside track, and was to be appointed at once. [5]
- But we who have heard Mr. Crewe speak are in no alarm for our candidate. [9]
- On the other hand, the sponsors became more pronounced, and at Harwich (a free-thinking district) a whole board of selectmen and five prominent citizens sat gravely beside the candidate in the town hall. [9]
- Three, four, or half a dozen questions are prominent at a given time; the party selects its candidate, and he takes his position on each of these questions. [7]
- As the Democrats had put off their convention until the 29th of August, the Union party had, during the larger part of the summer, no opposing candidate and platform to attack, and the political campaign languished. [7]
- A person who had not taken the Sacrament according to the Anglican rite could not stand as a candidate for sheriff of London. [5]
- I knew we had dissenters, but I did not know they were trying to get our candidate away from us. [7]
- Was it a graduate who had felt the "icy dagger," or only a candidate for graduation who was afraid of it? [6]
- Our candidate for governor, with the approbation of a large portion of the party, took the field without a nomination, and in open opposition to the system. [7]
- It'd make a good deal of a scandal in the family, with Austen as an anti-railroad candidate. [9]
- The candidate stepped forward and listened to one sentence, then made another move forward and listened to other words, and at last was welcomed to all the privileges conferred by the degree of Doctor of Civil Law, which was announced as being bestowed upon him. [6]
- The astonishing candidate for the Senate had sunk into his chair, his face relaxed into sadness save for the sparkle lurking in the eyes. [9]
- I'm a candidate for the governorship. [9]
- He must vote for the candidate of Jethro Bass end corruption or become a homeless wanderer. [9]
- If the candidate for that fearful calling had seen the process of selection and elimination, he would have felt still more desperately. [6]
- As he put foot to the stirrup, the eye of the great man (once candidate, and again to be, for President) caught the glint of red and white on the corner. [9]
- The election over even his severest critics found themselves forced to admit that Lincoln was the only possible candidate for the Union party in 1864, and that neither political combinations nor campaign speeches, nor even victories in the field, were needed to insure his success. [7]
- Every candidate for employment in a high capacity or a low one, on the other periodicals or in the publishing house, must first be "accepted by Mrs. Eddy as suitable. [5]
- Said district conventions each to nominate one candidate for Congress, and one delegate to a national convention for the purpose of nominating candidates for President and Vice-President of the United States. [7]
- If there be doubt as to which of our divisions will get our candidate, is there no doubt as to which of your candidates will get your party? [7]
- Who, seeing the Democratic candidate smiling and bowing to the audience that blocked the wide square, would guess that the Question troubled him at all, or that he missed the votes of the solid South? [9]
- The Honourable Humphrey Crewe of Leith, at the request of twenty prominent citizens, consents to become a candidate for the Republican Nomination for Governor. [9]
- This decision created considerable dissatisfaction among the friends of Mr. Ferguson, the defeated candidate, and there was some talk of demanding a new ballot; but in the midst of it a motion to adjourn was carried, and the meeting broke up at once. [5]
- Whereupon Mr. Crewe commanded Mr. Tooting to order his automobile--an occasional and rapid spin over the country roads being the only diversion the candidate permitted himself. [9]
- Yes, sir, that coat-tail was used not only for General Jackson himself, but has been clung to, with the grip of death, by every Democratic candidate since. [7]
- Pastor Albin, the clergyman of his village, voted for the Liberal candidate. [10]
- We had a candidate whose personal character and principles he had already described, whom he could not eulogize if he would. [7]
- I am a Candidate of the People. [9]
- I am a candidate for the legislature. [5]
- Now let the candidate for the asylum try to memorize those variations, and see how soon he will be elected. [5]
- Was not a candidate for re-election. [7]
- My candidate was called first, out of courtesy to me, and the head of the Board opened on him with official solemnity: "Name? [5]
- A convention, called by the dissatisfied radicals in Missouri, and favored by men of a similar way of thinking in other States, had been held already in May, and had nominated as its candidate for the Presidency General Fremont. [7]
- He was emboldened by the apparent lack of ceremony of the candidate. [9]
- Great competition, sir, between the dipterists and the lepidopterists as to which shall get in their candidate. [6]
- A new name being necessary, they called themselves Constitutional Unionists Senator Bell was their candidate, and they proposed to give the Nation soothing-syrup. [9]
- This was to be most severely regretted, when Greeley became a traitor to the cause, editorialized for compromise and separation--and promoted McClellan as Democratic candidate for the Presidency. [7]
- But there will be here and there a Latin scholar who will be pleased with the way in which the speaker turned a compliment to the candidate before him, with a reference to one of his poems and to some of his prose works. [6]
- Mr. Hunt stared at the Honourable Hilary thoughtfully; and although the gubernatorial candidate was not an observant man, he was suddenly struck by the fact that the chief counsel was growing old. [9]
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