How to Use minority in a Sentence

minority

noun

• The proposal is opposed by a minority of voters.
• The Republicans are now the minority in the Senate.
• The group is becoming an influential minority in the community.
• With the upgrade, Shaw moved into the bullish minority on Wall Street.
  — Alex Harring,fred Imbert, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2024
• At least 15% of the development costs must go to firms owned by women or minorities.
  — Wire Services, Dallas News, 17 May 2023
• The suit also says that as a white student, Newman belonged to the racial minority at Howard.
  — Claretta Bellamy, NBC News, 28 Feb. 2023
• To satisfy the law, both seats need to be filled by women, one of them needs to be a minority and one needs to be a Republican.
  — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 25 May 2023
• Ship immigrants back to their countries and go back to slavery times for minorities.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 28 June 2024
• Plotkin has been a minority stakeholder in the Hornets since 2019.
  — Steve Reed and Tim Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2023
• For a small minority, their truth is always going to be born of spite and privilege.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2023
• Now, Dundee is increasing its share to 74.2% and UMG will hold the remaining minority share.
  — Kristin Robinson, Billboard, 20 Feb. 2024
• The share of voters who believe the nation is on the right track remains a dismal and diminutive minority at 24 percent.
  — Shane Goldmacher, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2024
• Taft spoke for the majority, Holmes and Brandeis for the minority.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
• As part of the transaction, Disney is selling its minority stake in Boom!
  — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 2024
• To meet state law, Beshear needed to fill both seats with women, one of whom needed to be a racial minority and one of whom needed to be a Republican.
  — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 31 May 2023
• Healthy kids are at very low risk from covid, and online won't work especially for the lower income and minority kids.
  — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
• Critics have argued that minority groups are more likely to be sentenced—and given longer prison terms—for their crimes.
  — Byrodrigo Pérez Ortega, science.org, 19 Apr. 2023
• But critics argue the tests could worsen inequalities and hurt the chances for many minorities, who tend to score lower, to gain access to better schools.
  — Brammhi Balarajan, CNN, 25 Feb. 2024
• That led schools to place quotas on female enrollment, to insure that women would remain a minority of the class.
  — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2023
• Tyson is not only taking a minority stake in the company, but is working alongside it to build a US factory.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 20 Oct. 2023
• This will place the freshman official squarely in the council minority on the very issue with which his voters elected him to contend.
  — Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2024
• Only the antidemocratic structure of the U.S. Senate and electoral college can keep the shaky values of minority rule in place.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
• Almost all the cases occurred at people’s homes, while a minority occurred out in public or in nursing homes.
  — Akshay Syal, M.d., NBC News, 25 July 2023
• But the ordinary budget process is so broken that debt limit debates remain one of the few ways that the minority party can call attention to spending and the debt.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2023
• This is for the Asian community, but for anybody who’s been identified as a minority.
  — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 July 2023
• Sanford Seminole senior David Parks will be a minority as a white football player at Howard.
  — Chris Hays, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2024
• There’s no doubt a need for smaller urban EVs that don’t clog up street parking, even if those asking for it are possibly a vocal minority.
  — Umar Shakir, The Verge, 26 Oct. 2023
• Not to mention minorities who — in Pakistan, just as in India — often fall victim to mob violence.
  — Rana Ayyub, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2024
• Even so, McCarthy was fighting to ensure that a majority of his 222 members vote for the bill, limiting the reliance on minority Democrats to pass it.
  — Billy House, Fortune, 30 May 2023
• The youth-suicide rate has increased disproportionately among some minority groups.
  — Andrew Solomon, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024