Sentence examples for handily carried from inspiring English sources

But the current President Bush handily carried the state in 2000 and 2004.

He has handily carried the votes of women in primaries that he has won, including those in Mississippi and Alabama.

Mr. Paladino handily carried his home county, Erie, which includes his hometown, Buffalo, and 10 other counties — more counties than the last three losing candidates did.

The Eisenhower-Nixon ticket won handily, carrying 39 states, winning the electoral vote 442 to 89, and collecting more than 33 million popular votes.

He silenced some of those critics by nearly single handily carrying Portugal to the semifinals of the Euro 2012.

It's not hard to figure why Smith's camp made the move to officially distance itself from the McCain robocalls: Obama is on pace to handily carry the state on November 4. Meanwhile, according to Pollster.com's average of surveys in Oregon, the two-term Smith is running behind his challenger, Democratic State House Speaker Jeff Merkley.

Although the role requires Espósito to be a necessary enigma in order for the "did she or didn't she?" conceit to work, the actress-singer gives a compellingly spare, tight-lipped performance that handily carries this incisively observed character study — one in which the notion of guilt is collectively split among many a bloodstained hand.

Romney would still have t win Ohio, North Carolina and Virginia, but could lose Michigan and Iowa, and all of the Southwestern swing states that Obama carried handily in 2008.

A recent poll placed Rep. Steve King (above) and his Democratic opponent, J.D. Scholten, in a dead heat, signaling a shift in a district Donald Trump carried handily in 2016.

Democrats contend that Walker is delaying the vote in hopes of holding on to two GOP seats after Democrats unexpectedly won a January special election in a Wisconsin district that Donald Trump had carried handily in 2016.

Mr. Obama carried Wisconsin handily in 2008, and Mr. Romney has rarely campaigned here.