show of hands

Example Sentences

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A resolution to approve Reform UK’s new constitution was passed by a show of hands at the party’s conference in Birmingham.

From BBC • Sep. 21, 2024

Then the judge will excuse any people who indicate by a show of hands that they can’t serve or can’t be fair and impartial, he wrote.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 11, 2024

“How many are scared because of the hurricane,” Pedro Miranda, the minister asked, as he held up his arm for a show of hands.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2023

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

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