straw vote in a sentence

Examples

1. Bush finished first with 31 percent of the nearly 24, 000 straw votes cast.
2. The congregation, in a straw vote, was evenly divided.
3. There was no straw vote by the committee and no recommendation was formed, Browne said.
4. After the straw vote, some questions were still unresolved.
5. According to the straw vote there was a 2 : 1 consensus against " epithet ".
6. "The Blues Brothers " was rated the best movie sound track in a British straw vote.
7. Committee members said there had been little discussion of candidates so far and no straw votes.
8. In the Florida straw vote last month he ran a strong third behind Dole and Gramm.
9. A straw vote can have consequences, however.
10. The straw vote, he said, will be " the most defining political event left in 1995 ."