How to Use write-in in a Sentence

write-in

1 of 2 noun
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  • Still, Biden will take the most votes through a write-in campaign.
    — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Nevin received 75 votes; there were three write-in votes.
    — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2023
  • Luqman voted for Bernie Sanders in 2020, both in the March primary of that year, and in the fall as a write-in.
    — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Gender can be a write-in field, rather than a selection from a list.
    — Time, 15 June 2023
  • As a write-in candidate, his name will not be on voting ballots.
    — Indianapolis Star, The Indianapolis Star, 3 July 2023
  • So our poll listed 30 genre-spanning Michigan artists, along with a write-in option.
    — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 5 May 2023
  • Craig still ran as a write-in candidate for the Republican primary and snagged 3% of the vote.
    — Leah Vredenbregt, ABC News, 9 Mar. 2023
  • In fact, four of the current members of the Board of Overseers were write-in candidates who met the signature threshold.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The game features multiple choice, true or false questions and write-in answers.
    — Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The game features multiple choice, true or false questions, and write-in answers.
    — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 21 Aug. 2023
  • If Trump is kept off the ballot in a state, the former president could launch a write-in campaign, though the rules for doing so differ by state.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Durwood Sargent, 79, of Bow, cast a write-in vote for Biden and said he wasn’t offended that the president kept his name off the ballot.
    — Holly Ramer, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Biden was not on the ballot in that primary, but a group of Democrats had organized a write-in campaign to show support for the president.
    — Julian Mark, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
  • However, write-in Democrat Biden won a higher percentage of votes in his party than Trump did in his.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Phillips lost to Biden, who ran a write-in campaign, in the unsanctioned New Hampshire primary in January.
    — Soo Rin Kim, ABC News, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The organizers launched a website to promote their write-in efforts with messaging that echoes Biden's pitch against Trump.
    — Mike Pappano, ABC News, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Biden easily won last month’s New Hampshire primary as a write-in candidate, with Phillips getting about 20% of the vote.
    — Todd Richmond, Twin Cities, 2 Feb. 2024
  • That would include write-in candidates who qualify for the ballot.
    — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Antczak is running as a write-in after having been removed from the ballot over a paperwork error.
    — Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Javier Cazares, whose daughter, Jackie, was killed in the shooting, failed to win a county commissioner’s seat as a write-in candidate.
    — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2023
  • Biden didn’t campaign and his name wasn’t on the ballot, but still won by a sizable margin after supporters mounted a write-in campaign on his behalf.
    — TIME, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Yet Biden won that Jan. 23 primary as a write-in candidate regardless.
    — Jeongyoon Han, NPR, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Though Hayden ran unopposed, a sizable number of voters cast write-in ballots for sheriff in 2020.
    — Sarah Ritter, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
  • By 2013, when Mayor Mike Duggan had just won a historic write-in campaign following the city’s bankruptcy filing, times in Detroit were hard.
    — Ambassador Demetrios J. Marantis, Foreign Affairs, 16 Oct. 2023
  • These results show only candidates that appear on the ballot, not write-in candidates.
    — Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles doesn’t endorse in elections, but some of its members are urging support for a write-in candidate.
    — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Darin Johnson is an independent write-in candidate for mayor of Carmel.
    — Indianapolis Star, The Indianapolis Star, 3 July 2023
  • Rush also questioned the state’s argument that Rust could simply run as an independent or a write-in candidate.
    — Brittany Carloni, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The group also turned their attention to the fact that President Joe Biden won the Democratic primary even though his name was not on the ballot, following a major write-in campaign.
    — David Gilbert, WIRED, 24 Jan. 2024
  • New England Democrats mounted a determined write-in effort for Mr. Biden, hoping to avoid an embarrassing loss.
    — Jacob Rosen, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2024
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write in

2 of 2 verb
  • Fran can’t think what to write in the card going around.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Reading the book, there’s so much that Dahl writes in verse.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2023
  • Not sure what to write in your caption to plant a free tree?
    — Christina Montoya Fiedler, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Marks wrote in a memo at the peak of market pessimism in 2008.
    — Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 11 July 2023
  • Well, as one fan of AD wrote in the comments section of E!
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 7 Mar. 2024
  • This gift option has a large fill opening and the snap loop has a space to write in the contents.
    — Danny Perez, Popular Mechanics, 19 Dec. 2022
  • These are all perfect to write in a card or text message.
    — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The Colombian singer penned a farewell to Barcelona, her home of the last eight years, in the caption, written in Spanish.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The star at the center of this system was much more massive than our Sun, the researchers write in their study.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The menu, which changes daily, was written in red ink on a dry-erase board above my table.
    — The Enquirer, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Said guest is a good sport elsewhere in that episode, but that sequence feels like it was written in 1987.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Laura wrote in a July 12 text, asking Sarah to call her.
    — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Sean's mom, Alana Stewart wrote in the comments section.
    — Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Iger wrote in his memoir that if Jobs had lived, Disney and Apple might have merged.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2024
  • In the picture, the couple holds hands and shows off their wrist ink, which features a pair of baby feet and the name Grace written in script.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Someone’s secrets written in the sky for all to behold.
    — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Spears — who released her memoir, The Woman in Me, last month — wrote in her caption.
    — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Try taking a walk, writing in a journal, or breathing deeply for a minute or two.
    — Debra Manzella, Verywell Health, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Pernas wrote in the caption for the photo, in which Hartley smiles widely for the camera.
    — Katie Campione, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Taiwan’s de facto embassy in the United States wrote in a tweet on Monday.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Both songs are written in the same scale and their melodies are remarkably similar.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 8 Jan. 2024
  • So it was written in a more traditional way of writing scores with a pen and a pencil.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Jackman wrote in caption of an Instagram post of photos from his visit to the match.
    — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 6 Aug. 2023
  • In one post, two large chocolate eggs with Hailey and Justin's names written in white icing could be seen placed in baskets.
    — Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Cagan says the show was conceptualized in May, written in two months, and then shot over just six days.
    — WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Frankel wrote in the caption, adding the hashtags #mommyandme, #daughterlove and #jingleball.
    — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Trump wrote in all caps on his social media platform, Truth Social.
    — Jonathan Swan, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Over time, Bogomolny added more trigonometric proofs to the site: one such proof could be written in just four lines.
    — Leila Sloman, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Sounds like an essay somebody would write in high school to impress, say, an AP English teacher.
    — Amy Huschka, Detroit Free Press, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Moreno should never have been allowed to own firearms, Carranza wrote in her Facebook post.
    — Christina Maxouris, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024

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