How to Use in the minority in a Sentence

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• At the time, the court's liberal justices were in the minority; the three who were on the court at the time opposed the move.
  — Jessie Opoien, Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2024
• That puts them in the minority of counties in the country.
  — Harriet Blair Rowan, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2024
• These House clowns are dying to be back in the minority.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 1 Nov. 2023
• The truth is, Black adults who visit Disney are in the minority.
  — Ayana Lage, Allure, 22 Aug. 2023
• Life in the minority would be a stark change after four years in power.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2022
• The court found in favor of Congress, with O’Connor and one other justice in the minority.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023
• Each time, Democrats serving in the minority also supplied their votes in a bid to avert a crisis.
  — Tony Romm, Tyler Pager, Liz Goodwin, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2023
• The four justices in the minority took a different view.
  — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 25 May 2023
• Yeger and Marte are distinctly in the minority, though.
  — Curbed, 24 Oct. 2022
• Despite being in the minority, however, the deep water wells are where the costs pile up.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 May 2023
• Heimerl relishes working in the field again, where women still are in the minority.
  — Carol Deptolla, Journal Sentinel, 24 May 2022
• Even if the House passes a bill, the measure would be dead on arrival in the Senate where Republicans are in the minority.
  — Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 18 Apr. 2024
• Swenson joined in the minority vote as an advocate for the tougher line Reinert had proposed to draw.
  — Peter Passi, Twin Cities, 30 July 2024
• The fact that Kennedy had a bunker at all, albeit an unused one, placed him in the minority in terms of preparedness for nuclear war.
  — Jenn Morson, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2023
• While the rest of the league made a flurry of deals before Tuesday’s deadline, the Rangers remained in the minority, making only one deal before the clock ran out of time.
  — Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2022
• In provinces where Muslims were in the minority, the Congress however refused to form a coalition with the League.
  — Nahal Sheikh, JSTOR Daily, 15 May 2024
• Garcetti said that any cautionary voices were in the minority in his office.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• The fight came just days before the country’s new President-elect Lai Ching-te is set to take office on Monday with his party in the minority.
  — Brie Stimson, Fox News, 17 May 2024
• The party has mostly been--mostly been united for, as you guys are in the minority, trying to maintain the presidency and win back the House.
  — Washington Post Live, Washington Post, 9 July 2024
• Because Democrats are in the minority in the House, albeit a slim one, Stanton conceded that the effort to force a vote was not going to be successful.
  — Tara Kavaler, The Arizona Republic, 24 June 2023
• Remember, Schumer's power is on the line, too: A Democratic wipeout lands him back in the minority.
  — Axios, 9 July 2024
• Give it five years and, in my social circles at least, the monogamous people will probably be in the minority.
  — Shon Faye, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2023
• The Senate passed the same bill in April, with three Republican senators in the minority voting against the measure.
  — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2023
• The Senate passed the same bill in April, with three Republican senators in the minority voting against the measure.
  — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2023
• That will inevitably blow back on people who are in the minority and who express protest or dissent in strong terms against whoever’s in power.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2024
• Mazda hopes that this feature will extend the appeal of the RX-7 convertible into climates where warm days are in the minority.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 11 Aug. 2023
• Rather than simply voting against the party in power, earmarks give lawmakers in the minority party some skin in the game.
  — Andrew Zhang, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Apr. 2022
• Some senior members didn’t relish the prospect of serving in the minority party if Republicans take control of the House in the midterm elections.
  — Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 30 Sep. 2022
• Joseph said the three sectors now in the minority were involved with a powerful member of Haiti’s private sector to gain the majority on the council with Leblanc.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
• But the prospect of being in the minority can suddenly make white identity — and all the historical privilege that comes with it — salient.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 11 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024