How to Use soapbox in a Sentence

soapbox

noun
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  • This show is a smile all the way, so just admire the scenery and the plot, and get off the soapbox.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2021
  • The soapbox, the ballot box, the jury box, and the ammo box.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN, 13 Sep. 2021
  • The soapbox, the ballot box, the jury box, and then the cartridge box.
    — CBS News, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The acclaim provides her a soapbox to bring the rights for the disabled to light.
    — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 6 Apr. 2022
  • The rest of the crowded Democratic field will take the soapbox over the next few days.
    — J.f. | Des Moines, The Economist, 9 Aug. 2019
  • There’s more to free speech than standing on a soapbox on the town square and shouting.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 19 June 2019
  • Should the queens be able to express themselves or does Tuberville have a soapbox to stand on?
    — Lily Jackson | [email protected], al, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Ted was also a guy that was not somebody who would stand up on a soapbox . . . .
    — Ellie Silverman, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2018
  • This means the location can now be a soapbox for all of Houston.
    — Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Everybody needs to come down off the soapbox and get to a place of solution.
    — New York Times, 23 Nov. 2021
  • But for James and Noah Mubiru, a father and son pair who’d missed the parade, the main event would be the debut of the soapbox derby.
    — Brian Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 4 July 2018
  • My concerns and thoughts, happy with their time at the soapbox, stepped back and stopped plaguing me first thing in the morning.
    — Hillary Richard, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2020
  • But, hey, no soapboxes here — just an awareness that even small changes add up on all sorts of fronts.
    — Katie Workman, NBC News, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Diego, for some reason, is still on his soapbox yelling about saving JFK.
    — Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, 3 Aug. 2020
  • At no point did that show pause the action to get up on a soapbox and be all didactic for the sake of scoring some easy points with the woke left.
    — Graham Techler, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2021
  • Just don’t expect The Good Fight to become an activist’s soapbox.
    — Benjamin Lindsay, VanityFair.com, 9 Feb. 2017
  • That droll demeanor is not the stuff of the Iowa State Fair soapbox, but few things about Bloomberg’s campaign are typical.
    — Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2020
  • To wrap up with the usual soapbox about AI being a tool, deep learning is only part of the system.
    — David A. Teich, Forbes, 11 May 2021
  • And so Stewart, 61, the disgruntled voice of outrage and humor, found a way back to his trusty soapbox.
    — USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Standing on a soapbox in a town square, the delirious ranter, or even the genuine prophet, can reach a few hundred people.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Vladimir Lenin, the soapbox crank and columnist who went on to rule an empire, had also found refuge in Zurich when the czar kicked him out of his homeland.
    — Simon Shuster / Zurich, Time, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Some blasted liquor and beer, others warned against wine and one Methodist pastor took to his soapbox to condemn hard cider.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 2 Nov. 2019
  • Peterson then stopped and took a moment to stand on a soapbox and make his own pitch to the NFL about having more referees on the field.
    — Katherine Fitzgerald, The Arizona Republic, 14 Nov. 2020
  • Each White House hopeful gets 20 minutes on the soapbox to speak and take questions, and all take a stroll through the fairgrounds to prove their person-of-the-people bonafides.
    — J.f. | Des Moines, The Economist, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Even Cevian, which built its stake in 2013, has resorted to the media soapbox in this sorry case.
    — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 28 May 2018
  • The judge did not want to see his courtroom become Kaczynski’s soapbox.
    — William Finnegan, Smithsonian, 18 May 2018
  • In the years that followed Cofield’s first prison transfer, he was found with phones in his soapbox, taped around his waist, and inside his undershorts.
    — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
  • But now, her profile boosted by a presidential shout-out in the State of the Union speech, Haugen is making the most of her new soapbox.
    — Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2022
  • Afroman is getting on his political soapbox for a remix of his biggest hit.
    — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2024
  • After seeing Starbuck’s video on X, Strickland wheeled out his own soapbox and threatened to sell his custom cruiser.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2024

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