How to Use minor in in a Sentence

minor in

phrasal verb
  • But these issues were very minor in the grand scheme of things.
    Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 4 July 2024
  • The warrant stemmed from the murder of a minor in 2022, the release said.
    Remington Miller, arkansasonline.com, 13 Feb. 2024
  • There were arrests of four adults and three minors in March in connection with the Lord case.
    Christina Avery, The Arizona Republic, 5 July 2024
  • This is on top of the aspect of the new law that forbids gender-affirming care for minors in the state.
    Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The student was charged as a minor in possession of a firearm and possession of a firearm on school premises.
    Dillon Mullan, Baltimore Sun, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Arkansas was the first state to pass a ban on gender-affirming care for minors in 2021.
    Doc Louallen, ABC News, 2 July 2024
  • Parents and legal guardians can apply on behalf of minors in their care.
    Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
  • In 2012, the University of Arizona became the first four-year college to offer a minor in hip-hop.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Court records show Young was charged with providing alcohol to minors in March 2022.
    Mitchell Willetts, Kansas City Star, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Any unaccompanied minors in the park after 4pm will be asked to leave.
    Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Across the nation, student activists in the South, the Northeast and the Southwest continue to lobby for more courses and for majors or minors in the field.
    Pawan Dhingra, The Conversation, 21 May 2024
  • The footage acts as a reminder that there are real-life minors in these countries who have been forced by their circumstances to become miners.
    Brian Ng, ARTnews.com, 26 June 2024
  • The Ohio Senate passed a bill restricting certain transgender rights for minors in the state on Wednesday.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 13 Dec. 2023
  • In addition to Beaudette, an unidentified minor in the Toyota was injured in the accident as well.
    Daniel McFadin, arkansasonline.com, 3 Mar. 2024
  • So minors in those states can buy nonalcoholic drinks but not those with low levels of alcohol.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN, 20 Sep. 2024
  • He has been arrested in connection with a May 29 group assault on another minor in a Mesa park.
    The Arizona Republic, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Baltimore County Police arrested a 32-year-old man and a minor in the April shooting of a 17-year-old, a killing described in court records as a drug deal and armed robbery gone bad.
    Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 11 July 2023
  • The case has attracted widespread attention, as now half of U.S. states ban or restrict transgender care for minors in some form.
    Sarah Owermohle, STAT, 25 June 2024
  • Students can choose to minor in the program, earn a master’s degree, or get a certification.
    IEEE Spectrum, 13 May 2023
  • The Wayne County Sheriff's Office later charged two unidentified minors in this case.
    Taylor Ardrey, USA TODAY, 29 July 2024
  • Logic suggests that someone who has served as public guardian, a lawyer appointed to represent minors in court, would be a by-the-book mother to her own children.
    Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2023
  • Among those was a ban on gender-affirming care for minors in Tennessee that went into effect in July.
    Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The law bars transgender minors in the state from accessing puberty blockers and hormones.
    Casey Parks, Washington Post, 24 June 2024
  • The irony was that Mayorkas, who had witnessed the surge in unaccompanied minors in 2014, as Deputy Secretary, was perhaps the least convenient fall guy.
    Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
  • And census data shows more than 8,000 minors in California are married off every year, mostly girls to adult men.
    Fraidy Reiss, The Mercury News, 24 May 2024
  • Nearly 25% of minors in the state had consumed alcohol, and more than 14% had participated in binge-drinking.
    Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 29 Sep. 2023
  • An attempt to ban care for minors in Kansas failed when lawmakers did not muster enough votes to override the Democratic governor’s veto.
    Mitch Smith, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • Seventy-five of those bills became law, including a ban on gender-affirming care for minors in Utah, which Cox signed into law.
    Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling make choices in this montage that seem minor in constitution but are crucial in meaning.
    Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Criminal acts by minors in Maryland account for just a fraction of the state’s total each year, and the Department of Juvenile Services says youth crime is mostly down from a decade ago.
    Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 2 Feb. 2024

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