poll - use in sentences

Object

  • vote: In the last Swedish general election, the fascist Sweden Democrats polled 19,600 votes.

Converse of object

  • conduct: I conducted a poll among my friends, texting them to ask " Who is James Blake?
  • commission: Back in 2002, you may recall, the BBC commissioned a telephone poll of viewers to find the greatest Briton of all time.
  • boycott: If this is so, then how come several major parties and the majority of Sunnis in central Iraq boycotted the poll?
  • delete: If no one has cast a vote then users can delete the poll or edit any poll option.

Adjective modifier

  • straw: A straw poll of New Insight staff in the office on one day showed that 100 per cent had tried it.
  • infamous: ROCKTASTIC MONTHLY - METAL HAMMER are conducting their infamous readers poll.
  • recent: The result was repeated at the most recent poll in March 2003.
  • nationwide: A nationwide poll suggests most people would like the government to take more action to improve public health.
  • presidential: Putin then won the presidential poll in March 2000.
  • pre-election: The result is exactly in line with the pre-election polls.

Modifies a noun

  • tax: A poll tax of 3d a year was also imposed from the age of twelve.
  • riot: Another thing Dublin Anto was known for was being the poll tax riots most wanted.
  • rating: There is already concern at the party's falling poll ratings.

Noun used with modifier

  • opinion: We proved the opinion polls wrong by a factor of 50 % .
  • Gallup: A 1989 Gallup poll seemed to show strong support of the use of animals in biomedical research.
  • deed: The idea is to replicate the name change shown on your lost deed poll document.
  • exit: Aside from the exit polls having been proven to be faulty, in the 2000 election exit polls were wrong in 8 states.
  • reno: Televising any round-robin inception in the s visiting the nevada reno poll.
  • phone-in: As usual with their important campaigns like this they had a phone-in poll last week.

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