How to Use unionist in a Sentence

unionist

noun

• More eye-popping than the amount was the list of 20 rich men who ponied up—which included three of the fiercest Unionists in the land.
  — T.a. Frail, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• And the unionist party faces a dilemma in getting to yes.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
• Protestant unionists were the first to form paramilitaries in response to the passage of Home Rule.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 5 July 2019
• The Democratic Unionists have agreed to support the Tories on key votes.
  — Jill Lawless, The Seattle Times, 28 June 2017
• The days of doing democracy on unionist terms are gone.
  — Washington Post, 2 May 2022
• Some of that uneasiness may reflect the importance of the monarchy to the unionists.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• Sturgeon lived in Dreghorn, a village on the edge of Irvine with unionist tendencies.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
• Emily Le Coz: This unionist Guild has been in the process of talking to pharmacists across the country.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
• Today Labor Day is no longer about trade unionists marching down the street with banners and their tools of trade.
  — Jay L. Zagorsky, Smithsonian, 1 Sep. 2017
• In the talks the two parties resolved a thorny dispute about the promotion of the Irish language, opposed by unionists.
  — The Economist, 10 Jan. 2020
• She was not seen as just a teacher or public sector unionist.
  — Rick Pearson, chicagotribune.com, 8 July 2019
• Yet the government’s reliance on unionist votes makes this tail hard to ignore.
  — The Economist, 16 June 2018
• Many of the limited jobs left for locals are tough and dangerous, says Athit Kong, a trade unionist.
  — Julie Zaugg, CNN, 4 Oct. 2019
• Tinovimbanashe Gwenyaya, a former trade unionist in South Africa, has also seen the power of Twitter first hand.
  — Rebecca Chowdhury, Time, 29 Apr. 2022
• Wrapped in Spain’s yellow and red flag and waving banners, unionists spilled out of train stations and filled sidewalks.
  — NBC News, 29 Oct. 2017
• At a rally in Paris this spring Mr Faure, jeered by unionists, had to be escorted to safety.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2018
• Her father started as a welder and trade unionist, then was elected to Germany’s Parliament and was a founder of the Green Party.
  — Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2018
• More powers for Scotland are inevitable, all the unionist parties agree.
  — Miranda Green, Newsweek, 17 July 2014
• One gathering became a face-off against a sea of British unionists, who were amassing in a public square in Glasgow.
  — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2024
• There was no public transportation in the capital as workers walked off the job and unionists threatened to call more strikes in the coming weeks.
  — Niki Kitsantonis, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2018
• For all the symbolism, the victory was as much about disarray in the unionist movement as the rise of the nationalists.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 6 May 2022
• Would a diehard Brexiteer prime minister risk yet another election, in a bid to win enough seats to ditch the unionists?
  — The Economist, 16 June 2018
• The Catalan elections on December 21 are set to be a show of force between the unionist and separatist leaders.
  — Michelle Iracheta, Houston Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2018
• In his first exchange with reporters, Biden was asked about losing support among many of his fellow Democrats and unionists, and was asked about Harris.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 12 July 2024
• Some 56 percent of people in the North, both Catholic nationalists and Protestant unionists, voted to stay in the 28-nation bloc.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• The trade unionist Luca Visentini was arrested in Brussels late last year and went on leave.
  — Sarah Hurtes, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2023
• For the party’s low-income earners and trade unionists, this was a bitter betrayal.
  — Sumi Somaskanda, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2017
• Most unionists support it, for exactly the same reason.
  — The Economist, 23 Jan. 2018
• To some of the agreement’s unionist critics, this was a dangerous concession.
  — Daniel Finn, Foreign Affairs, 21 Aug. 2019
• Managing the North’s restive unionist parties, which favor staying part of the kingdom, has become a headache for the British government.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024