Sample Sentences for
canvass
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canvass as in:  canvass the crowd

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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)
  • 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)
  • He canvassed but didn't get a clear picture of how to graduate early.†  (source)
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  • My responsibilities were to organize the campaign, coordinate the regional branches, canvass for volunteers, and raise funds.†  (source)
  • I've got people running down the woman who was on duty last night, canvassing the rooms, and working the Newport angle.†  (source)
  • Our sparse neighborhood was being canvassed.†  (source)
  • This ensemble made me look like a schoolgirl, or a Salvation Army canvasser.†  (source)
  • Warn the Turners and the Canvasses to stay safe.†  (source)
  • Alec wanted the cover in case the people they were planning to confront sent canvassers out at night.†  (source)
  • We've done that canvass already.†  (source)
  • Because she'd do the work and not try and make them go canvassing on weekends.†  (source)
  • Harry seized on the subject with relief and they passed a few happy moments abusing her, but the subject had already been so thoroughly canvassed during DA meetings it did not last very long.†  (source)
  • 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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