How to Use subset in a Sentence

subset

noun

• Only a small subset of the patients in the study experienced these side effects.
• That is good news for the subset of Rangers fans/Swifties.
  — Dallas News, 16 Nov. 2022
• The teahouse also sells tea ware and a subset of its thick menu of teas.
  — David Bloom, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• Coming soon Those of you shopping in the mid-range subset, hold tight.
  — Florence Ion / Gizmodo, Quartz, 9 Mar. 2024
• That said, a number of the software packages failed to complete a subset of the tests.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2024
• And to the consumer point, for a true sports fan, this product only has a subset of sports.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2024
• Only this tiny, tiny subset of the photons can get out.
  — Quanta Magazine, 11 Apr. 2024
• Known as Group A and Group B, each subset will get 15 minutes of practice to start.
  — Michelle R. Martinelli, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2021
• For this subset, $8 a month may not be worth it, no matter how many memes Musk posts about the cost of a cup of coffee.
  — Barbara Ortutay, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2022
• In some sense, snakes are really just a subset of lizards.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 4 June 2024
• This process narrowed the list down to a subset of around 2,500 solution words.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Jan. 2022
• One is a change to the placement of a subset of chip interconnects.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Oct. 2023
• The cases of voter fraud, Thomas added, are a small subset of the millions of votes that are cast in state elections.
  — Andrew Brown, Hartford Courant, 19 Oct. 2022
• This subset of the far-right has been quietly gaining ground for years.
  — Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 15 Aug. 2024
• This step will help a subset of workers but does nothing to address the high cost of living.
  — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2023
• So, for the last two or three seasons, there has been a subset of Dodger fans who called for the banishment of Kenley Jansen.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2022
• Only a small subset of the population has the means to buy fairly pricey books.
  — Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2021
• Those results, which are a subset of items carved out of the larger state test, showed 22% of the state’s third graders were not reading at grade level.
  — al, 26 Aug. 2022
• The researchers further confirmed Covid-19 as the cause of death through lung biopsies on a select subset.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
• In a world where so much truth is malleable and relative, there is a subset of that world in language where truth is fixed.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 30 May 2024
• On one side of the camp is a beach and tidal mud flats—where a subset of bears digs for clams and other food—and behind it is a salt marsh meadow full of sedges.
  — Kristen Pope, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2022
• This finding held up in the subset of people who would have received the oral vaccine in childhood decades ago.
  — Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2022
• Not long ago, the security team was a subset of the IT department.
  — Ameesh Divatia, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
• For years, though, only a subset of surgeons ventured into the deep neck.
  — Jolene Edgar, Allure, 1 May 2024
• All of these axioms state that there are certain sets: for example, the empty set or the power set (the set of all subsets) of a set.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2024
• Lupino is known for her contributions to the noir genre, and this film fits that subset of thrillers perfectly.
  — cleveland, 28 Mar. 2022
• And again, even this increase would have been only for a tiny subset of the population.
  — Cnn.com, The Mercury News, 28 June 2024
• Humans, monkeys and apes make up a subset of primates known as the higher primates, which evolved to eat fruit.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
• But the negative effect of the food additives that Kennedy seems most worried about is felt by only a small subset of eaters.
  — Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 3 Dec. 2024
• Rather, the team had to compute the probability of finding upper and lower paths over a subset of these outcomes—much as polls sample from a subset of voters to predict the result of an election.
  — Joseph Howlett, WIRED, 24 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024