How to Use run for office in a Sentence

run for office

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Definition of run for officenext
  • The poll found that 61% of the public think Trump should not run for office again.
    — Courtney Subramanianstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The final day for people to file to run for office is Jan. 5.
    — The Enquirer, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The final day for people to file to run for office is Jan. 5.
    — The Enquirer, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The youngest age to run for office in Kansas City or anywhere in Missouri is 25.
    — Mará Rose Williams, Kansas City Star, 14 Apr. 2024
  • Honduras banned the sale of the morning-after pill in 2009; Castro promised during her run for office to end the ban.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2023
  • But his dream has long been to run for office as a Republican.
    — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Back then, women only recently earned the right to vote and run for office.
    — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 28 June 2023
  • JPMorgan Chase said last month that Dimon has no plans to run for office.
    — Trey Williams, Fortune, 11 July 2023
  • And that has been how this town has worked, at least until Braxton qualified to run for office.
    — Kyle Whitmire | Kwhitmire@al.com, al, 20 July 2023
  • Burkman, who has never run for office, is the first woman in Westfield to run for mayor.
    — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 2 May 2023
  • In 2018, just eight years after her first run for office, Hobbs was elected secretary of state.
    — Marisa Agha, The New Republic, 2 Feb. 2023
  • This is not the first time Bell has run for office, after bids for Congress in Virginia in 2022 on a platform packed with far-right talking points.
    — Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 15 May 2024
  • Working-class jobs can be less stable, and taking off time to campaign could mean the candidate has no job to come back to if the run for office fails.
    — Amanda Shendruk, Quartz, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The two women grew close, and Watts often encouraged McBath to run for office.
    — Hope Corrigan, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
  • The oldest person to run for office—once again—is widely expected to win Democrats’ backing.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Stand up for democracy: Volunteer for a campaign, run for office yourself, and get your friends to run.
    — Elizabeth Warren, Glamour, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Our reporter goes to one of Mexico's most violent towns to talk to candidates who are brave enough to run for office.
    — Greg Dixon, NPR, 7 May 2024
  • Trump is the first former U.S. president to be found guilty of felonies, and the first major party candidate to run for office after being found guilty of a crime.
    — Graham Kates, CBS News, 31 May 2024
  • North was embraced by many on the right, and the retired Marine lieutenant colonel went on to run for office, write several books and serve as a commentator on Fox News.
    — Jake Offenhartz, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Some reports suggested that Cuomo might use the money to run for office again, once the controversy died down.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2023
  • But that doesn’t mean there is no connection between what the Biden Administration has been doing and the way Democrats in purple states run for office.
    — Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The expulsion doesn't affect Harris' ability to run for office again next year.
    — Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 5 May 2023
  • The expulsion doesn't affect Harris' ability to run for office again next year.
    — Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 5 May 2023
  • Of the rest, the most common explanations for the lack of female candidates were: sexism, that women were too smart to run for office and that not enough women were trying to run.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 22 May 2024
  • Jones first attempted to run for office in 2019 but did not gather enough signatures required to make it on the ballot, according to the Nashville Post.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Her decision not to run for office opens the door for months of speculation over who will represent the ruling coalition in next year’s elections.
    — Scott Squires, Bloomberg.com, 6 Dec. 2022
  • But whether higher pay actually means those with less money run for office is unclear.
    — Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The candidate in the 1995 assembly race: Tony Cárdenas, who had never run for office before.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The Carters, unlike many of their neighbors, supported school desegregation, and Mr. Carter was inspired to run for office.
    — Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Crossing party lines in an election is only consequential for voters who may want to run for office.
    — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Apr. 2024

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