Sentence examples for canvass for from inspiring English sources

They were coming to canvass for the weekend, and needed places to crash.

Canvass for a voter-registration drive in an African-American neighborhood.

One of the couple's daughters, Sarabeth, helped her father canvass for petitions ahead of a crucial filing deadline.

Vidal Sassoon, who died yesterday, at eighty-four, saw the world — specifically, women's craniums — as a canvass for delectable shapes.

He has also ripped into awkward reporters and wandered into the Nevada caucuses to canvass for his wife.

"Because there are a lot fewer customers, I have to reduce prices and canvass for business," Ms. Gong said.

Yesterday, LBC broadcast an interview with Gani in which he said he had encouraged local Muslims to canvass for Watkins.

In 2008, the College Democrats at Columbia University drove 130 students to Virginia to canvass for voters in a state that Mr. Obama barely won.

He would not canvass or pay agents to canvass for him, nor would he engage to attend to the local business of the constituency.

Fearing prosecution once his term in office was over, he now began to canvass for a second tribunate another unprecedented act, bound to reinforce fears of tyranny.

The writer went canvassing for Jackson.