How to Use constituency in a Sentence

constituency

noun
  • He was elected to represent a Liverpool constituency.
  • The senator's constituency includes a large minority population.
  • That brings us to the third constituency: the people of the Middle East.
    Kim Ghattas, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2021
  • This is not a way to gain trust with their constituency.
    Teddy McDarrah, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Labour has held the seat since the constituency's creation in 1974.
    Pan Pylas, Star Tribune, 6 May 2021
  • In short, two constituencies: those who baked and those who faked.
    Charlotte Druckman, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Labour has held the seat since the constituency was created in 1974.
    Pan Pylas, Star Tribune, 6 May 2021
  • On the ground in the Udhampur constituency, that appears to hold true.
    Fahad Shah, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Apr. 2024
  • The most valuable and most important to get right is the outputs, as this is what the constituency needs.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 21 May 2021
  • But there was strong push against it from the industry, and not enough constituency pushing for it.
    Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Even so, some of the cost cutting has rankled key constituencies.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 14 Aug. 2024
  • In São Paulo state, Brazil’s largest electoral constituency, the returns were mixed.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The party abandoned the working class, which has been its core constituency for decades.
    Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 15 Nov. 2024
  • This belief enabled aggrieved men to see themselves as a class and a constituency for the first time.
    Theresa Iker / Made By History, TIME, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The constituency for Romney — or anyone like him — is tiny.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Even though plenty of us were born in the ’70s or survived them, a decade has no constituency, no one to be offended.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Bernie Sanders had a, a, a large constituency of people who were willing to pass a $6-10 trillion budget.
    NBC News, 8 Aug. 2021
  • There is a little bit of good news in the exit polls regarding the Democrats’ working-class constituency, or what’s left of it.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Four hundred seats will be determined by first-past-the-post races in each constituency.
    Grant Peck, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Mar. 2023
  • While many in France cling to its statist past, there is still a constituency for economic dynamism.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 6 July 2021
  • Eight other candidates were standing in the constituency, but the main threat came from Labour.
    Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 29 June 2024
  • Democrats need to package their policies in terms that matter to this constituency.
    Arick Wierson and Bradley Honan, CNN, 1 June 2021
  • More often than not, that constituency comes from within the party, not the public.
    New York Times, 30 Oct. 2021
  • None of this, of course, is a sign that Harris has the youth vote locked, or has reclaimed an internet constituency that had grown bored with Biden.
    Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 26 July 2024
  • But there is a core constituency of regulars who keep coming back for more.
    Sharyn Jackson, Star Tribune, 20 Nov. 2020
  • And for the first time, the party also did not do well in constituencies where Modi spent time campaigning.
    Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2024
  • The Venezuelan diaspora was a key constituency that helped put him over the top in no small part because of his hard line on Maduro.
    Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Which isn’t to say all karaoke patrons share the confidence of Baby Grand’s core constituency.
    Christine Werthman, Billboard, 7 Oct. 2022
  • For them, Erdogan was importing a constituency that would be loyal to him.
    Alia Malek, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
  • In other countries where RCV is the norm, parties assemble slates of candidates to appeal to different constituencies and knit together a winning coalition.
    Jasmine Gripper, New York Daily News, 17 Jan. 2025

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