Sentence examples for were canvassed from inspiring English sources
noun
A solicitation of voters or public opinion.
In the ABC/Washington Post poll, voters were canvassed after the Democratic convention.
Posters were put up around the neighborhood, and clubs and social centers were canvassed.
Questions of taste were canvassed in new journals such as the Spectator, and in London's mushrooming coffee houses.
Media officers were canvassed via the Association of Police Communicators and the Association of Chief Police Officers.
It was contentious; many of the groups of educated Indians that were canvassed believed such a legal restraint would be an insult to the Hindu religion.
Last weekend 250 activists turned up to canvass across Tory-held Battersea when, according to their candidate Will Martindale, all but 10 streets in the constituency were canvassed.
"You guys were canvassing the street.
"They were canvassing the neighborhood," she recalls.
We were canvassing and we were working for CORE.
Detectives were canvassing locations where homeless people gather.
Investigators were canvassing hospitals late Friday, thinking Mr. Seabra might have shown up with injuries.
