How to Use consensus in a Sentence

consensus

noun

• There is a lack of consensus among the citizens.
• The decision was made by consensus.
• Everyone on the council seems to understand the need for consensus.
• Wake Forest was the consensus No. 1 the rest of the way.
  — Eric Olson, ajc, 23 June 2023
• The consensus then became that the rest of the moon was dry.
  — Fox News, 16 Mar. 2020
• That didn’t seem to be the consensus among my friends, though.
  — Ruthie Ackerman, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2023
• There is still no consensus on whether the virus did leak from the Wuhan lab.
  — Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner, 5 Mar. 2023
• Despite the lack of consensus on the cause of that uptick, there are some clear trends.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
• And if there was no consensus, then the girls’ schools would not open.
  — New York Times, 8 Aug. 2022
• They’re cursed, and there’s no consensus on a cause or how to break it.
  — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 11 Mar. 2023
• In the lead-up to the wedding, there wasn’t a clear consensus about which tiara Markle would wear.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 19 May 2018
• But there seems to be a consensus that the number is not small.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 11 June 2021
• But the consensus is the AL features more top-tier clubs.
  — Jorge Castillo, latimes.com, 13 July 2019
• But even small points of consensus could be hard to come by.
  — Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 8 May 2023
• These are the issues that tug to the appeal of wider consensus....
  — Rebecca Beitsch, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 July 2018
• Rodríguez is a consensus top-five prospect in the sport.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 11 July 2021
• There never was consensus among the creators of the game.
  — Dorothy Dworkin, Sun Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2022
• While no one else’s meat was as tough as mine, the consensus from our group of six was that the food was bad.
  — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
• While no one else's meat was as tough as mine, the consensus from our group of six was that the food was bad.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
• There’s no clear consensus on when and how these dogs should be used to bite.
  — Abbie Vansickle and Challen Stephens, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2020
• The group could not come to a consensus on no-knock warrants, the report said.
  — Molly Beck, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2021
• But when something seems to work, try it, was the consensus.
  — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 23 July 2022
• But ask around the industry and the Dodgers are the consensus front-runners to sign Ohtani.
  — Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2023
• Once there is a consensus about what is wrong and why, the new norms must be enforced.
  — The Economist, 19 Dec. 2017
• There is no consensus as to what the Kings will do with the second overall pick.
  — Jason Jones, sacbee, 20 June 2018
• Yet on both sides of the divide, people share a consensus on a few things.
  — Calvin Woodward, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Jan. 2022
• There is little consensus as to why gun sales and deaths have jumped so much over the past two years.
  — Washington Post, 8 July 2022
• But over the past few weeks, that consensus is no longer so unified.
  — Fortune, 7 Feb. 2022
• Iowa was the consensus second-place pick with three first-place votes.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 25 July 2022
• The consensus seems to be that where the next mass shooting will happen is tough to predict.
  — The Courier-Journal, 16 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 9 May 2024