show of hands
Example Sentences
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Vossler Smith said that during a kickoff event for the nearly 500 volunteers who help with Modernism Week, she asked for a show of hands from “our Canadian friends.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026
Dutton described the show of hands as a "very confronting scene" while Albanese said he has brought inflation down, wages up and added that interest rates were starting to fall, according to ABC.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2025
Mr. Diaz-Balart at one point asked for a show of hands on who had actually seen the exhibit.
From Washington Times • Jul. 23, 2023
A brief show of hands among the crowd in Karyshiv showed a large majority were in favour of leaving the UOC.
From Reuters • May 12, 2023
Levin, at one point, went into a seventh-grade music class with seventy kids in it and asked for a show of hands on when the students woke up.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
