show of hands
Example Sentences
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By a show of hands, Labour conference delegates rejected the first motion in favour of the second.
From BBC • Sep. 29, 2025
He asked for a show of hands: “Who’s here for the first time?”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 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
In a show of hands, the assembly voted overwhelmingly to lift the parliamentary immunity of Belgian lawmaker Marc Tarabella and Italian Andrea Cozzolino.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 2, 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
