How to Use constituency in a Sentence

constituency

noun
  • He was elected to represent a Liverpool constituency.
  • The senator's constituency includes a large minority population.
  • Labour has held the seat since the constituency's creation in 1974.
    Pan Pylas, Star Tribune, 6 May 2021
  • The most valuable and most important to get right is the outputs, as this is what the constituency needs.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 21 May 2021
  • Labour has held the seat since the constituency was created in 1974.
    Pan Pylas, Star Tribune, 6 May 2021
  • But whether there is a meaningful constituency within the party for such an approach remains an open question.
    CBS News, 12 May 2021
  • Fashion is a major local industry, with a large and interested constituency near and far.
    Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2021
  • These three California constituencies may be on a collision course with Trump.
    Karim Doumar, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Now Leadbeater is planning to run as the Labour candidate for her sister’s former constituency.
    Fortune, 14 May 2021
  • For decades, both parties have coveted the votes and donations of the small but growing constituency of Asian Americans.
    Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2021
  • Biden, with roots in working-class Pennsylvania, was able to overcome Trump’s support among that constituency, at least enough to win the presidency.
    Washington Post, 11 May 2021
  • That brings us to the third constituency: the people of the Middle East.
    Kim Ghattas, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2021
  • In short, two constituencies: those who baked and those who faked.
    Charlotte Druckman, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • On the ground in the Udhampur constituency, that appears to hold true.
    Fahad Shah, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Apr. 2024
  • But there was strong push against it from the industry, and not enough constituency pushing for it.
    Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Even so, some of the cost cutting has rankled key constituencies.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 14 Aug. 2024
  • In São Paulo state, Brazil’s largest electoral constituency, the returns were mixed.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The party abandoned the working class, which has been its core constituency for decades.
    Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 15 Nov. 2024
  • The constituency for Romney — or anyone like him — is tiny.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Even though plenty of us were born in the ’70s or survived them, a decade has no constituency, no one to be offended.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Bernie Sanders had a, a, a large constituency of people who were willing to pass a $6-10 trillion budget.
    NBC News, 8 Aug. 2021
  • There is a little bit of good news in the exit polls regarding the Democrats’ working-class constituency, or what’s left of it.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Four hundred seats will be determined by first-past-the-post races in each constituency.
    Grant Peck, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Mar. 2023
  • While many in France cling to its statist past, there is still a constituency for economic dynamism.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 6 July 2021
  • Eight other candidates were standing in the constituency, but the main threat came from Labour.
    Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 29 June 2024
  • Democrats need to package their policies in terms that matter to this constituency.
    Arick Wierson and Bradley Honan, CNN, 1 June 2021
  • More often than not, that constituency comes from within the party, not the public.
    New York Times, 30 Oct. 2021
  • None of this, of course, is a sign that Harris has the youth vote locked, or has reclaimed an internet constituency that had grown bored with Biden.
    Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 26 July 2024
  • Still a Republican constituency, but a little bit less so.
    NBC News, 10 Nov. 2024
  • But these constituencies, and their economic and social fortunes, declined since victory was achieved.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024

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