Sample Sentences forcanvass (editor-reviewed)
canvass as in: canvass the crowd
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She has been canvassing the membership to see how they feel and to ask for their support.canvassing = talking with people individually
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Volunteers will canvass the neighborhood to gather support for the candidate.canvass = go door-to-door in
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We need to canvass a wider body of student opinion.canvass = examine or ask questions of
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At the Meetings Snowball often won over the majority by his brilliant speeches, but Napoleon was better at canvassing support for himself in between times. (source)canvassing = getting (votes)
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In 1985, following his junior year at Woodson, Chris was hired by a local building contractor to canvass neighborhoods for sales, drumming up siding jobs and kitchen remodelings.† (source)
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For me at least—in the circumstances then surrounding me—there arose out of the pure abstractions which the hypochondriac contrived to throw upon his canvass, an intensity of intolerable awe, no shadow of which felt I ever yet in the contemplation of the certainly glowing yet too concrete reveries of Fuseli.† (source)
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My responsibilities were to organize the campaign, coordinate the regional branches, canvass for volunteers, and raise funds.† (source)
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Because she'd do the work and not try and make them go canvassing on weekends.† (source)
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He canvassed but didn't get a clear picture of how to graduate early.† (source)
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This ensemble made me look like a schoolgirl, or a Salvation Army canvasser.† (source)
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Warn the Turners and the Canvasses to stay safe.† (source)
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Sherrie and Janice have called the entire office in, all the volunteers, the part-time canvassers, even the high school kids who station the sidewalk kiosks.† (source)
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We've done that canvass already.† (source)
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I've got people running down the woman who was on duty last night, canvassing the rooms, and working the Newport angle.† (source)
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Our sparse neighborhood was being canvassed.† (source)
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Here was a type of the traveling canvasser for a manufacturing house a class which at that time was first being dubbed by the slang of the day "drummers."† (source)
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