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How to use the word soundbites in a Sentence?

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Congressman Budd presented the sort of level-headed assessment of a foreign crisis you would expect from a Jonathan Felts Senator because he knows these are serious times that require strength and substance, not the empty soundbites preferred by career politicians like Biden and McCrory.

Jonathan Felts

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The national security problems we face are wicked and complex; we wrestle with them constantly on this committee, what I cannot support are nominees who reduce complex national security conversations to partisan soundbites.

Jim Inhofe

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Since this debate will likely have lower ratings [than the two Republican debates], I'd guess the 'one-liners' and soundbites will carry more weight, but, unlike the R's, the combatants will not have to fight tooth and nail for attention, so maybe we can expect a less frantic, more conversational vibe.

Mark Leibovich

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's not so much what the contenders need to do to win the debate; it's what they need to do to position themselves to prevail as the nominee. since this debate will likely have lower ratings [than the two Republican debates], I'd guess the 'one-liners' and soundbites will carry more weight.

Mark Leibovich

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We have to have an intelligent policy debate. It's not about a soundbite. It's not about denigrating people, there's not such thing as a perfect solution. But after years and years of ignoring this and talking in political soundbites its time for pragmatic solutions that work.

George Pataki

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Great speeches have always had great soundbites. The problem now is that the young technicians who put together speeches are paying attention only to the soundbite, not to the text as a whole, not realizing that all great soundbites happen by accident, which is to say, all great soundbites are yielded up inevitably, as part of the natural expression of the text. They are part of the tapestry, they aren't a little flower somebody sewed on.

Peggy Noonan

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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