How to Use the Oval Office in a Sentence

the Oval Office

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Definition of the Oval Officenext
  • Trump shouldn’t be president, but this isn’t the way to keep him out of the Oval Office.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Photos and White House records corroborate that the two met in the Oval Office at the time.
    — Andrea Bernstein, NPR, 30 May 2024
  • There is still only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: at the ballot box.
    — Peter Baker, New York Times, 31 May 2024
  • First, the market tends to trend upward regardless of who sits in the Oval Office.
    — Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 29 July 2024
  • How is Grace Penn’s ascension to the Oval Office going to shake things up?
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Trump has pushed to end birthright citizenship since his time in the Oval Office.
    — Morgan Fischer, The Arizona Republic, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The final decision to go to Kyiv was made in a huddle in the Oval Office on Friday.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Biden addressed the nation in a broadcast from the Oval Office on Wednesday evening.
    — David Ingram, NBC News, 25 July 2024
  • President Trump is set to address the nation tonight from the Oval Office.
    — ABC News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The action takes place behind the scenes of the Oval Office, where the president’s staff is on damage control.
    — Terry Byrne, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Biden has hosted union organizers in the Oval Office, and the White House is paying interns for the first time since the 1970s.
    — Will Weissert, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The votes on the margins will likely decide whether President Biden holds the Oval Office or not.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The next evening, Nixon addressed the nation from the Oval Office and flew home to California a day later.
    — Philip Elliott, TIME, 3 July 2024
  • Donald Trump is going to walk in the Oval Office with an enemies list.
    — CBS News, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Tony Goldwyn is trading the Oval Office for the corner office.
    — Gerrad Hall, EW.com, 15 May 2024
  • But even if Trump does take the Oval Office, there will still be half of us willing to fight for a country not just of the people and by the people — but for the people.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Meanwhile, Trump must reassure voters leery of putting him back in the Oval Office.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 18 May 2024
  • Kardashian enjoyed a meeting with Trump in the Oval Office in 2018.
    — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 6 June 2024
  • This madman is dangerous and has no business being near or in the Oval Office again.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The hostage crisis is not likely to be solved before a new president enters the Oval Office.
    — Barak Ravid, Axios, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Biden did so from the Oval Office on Sunday, Trump in social-media posts and interviews.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 15 July 2024
  • In 2020, record turnout among Black voters in battleground states delivered the Oval Office to Biden.
    — Briana Stewart, ABC News, 22 June 2024
  • There are benefits in having someone share the immense stress and that comes with being in the Oval Office, experts said.
    — Gabriella Abdul-Hakim, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Many are excited about the prospect of a woman—and especially a woman of color—in the Oval Office.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 17 Sep. 2024
  • On the other, last season’s arc about Ellen coming out of the closet while serving in the Oval Office felt a bit disconnected from the rest of the series.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Biden has made no secret of his admiration for Chavez — there is a bust of the civil rights leader behind his desk in the Oval Office.
    — Alejandra Molina, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • An open war with Trumpism is one academia cannot win, but the potential of his looming return to the Oval Office is also not to be ignored.
    — Philip Elliott, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024
  • If Trump returns to the Oval Office, his instinct to crush critics and stack the executive branch with yes men will likely get even stronger.
    — Malcolm Turnbull, Foreign Affairs, 31 May 2024
  • Whether in the Oval Office or on the playground, giving in to bullies encourages more bullying.
    — Malcolm Turnbull, Foreign Affairs, 31 May 2024
  • Perhaps the single most pressing question in tech outside of who might occupy the Oval Office next year.
    — Byandrew Nusca, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2024

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