How to Use constituent in a Sentence

constituent

1 of 2 noun
  • Many senators have received calls from constituents who want them to vote in favor of the law.
  • She's pledged to help her elderly constituents.
  • And in 2014 the constituents who elected her seemed to feel the same.
    Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 5 June 2018
  • The endosperm is the largest part of the kernel and the biggest constituent in white flours and breads.
    Linda Carroll, NBC News, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Many are not aware of these shifts per constituent group.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Most of the constituents who came in, his aides told me, were seniors who shouldn’t have been out.
    Mick Dumke, ProPublica, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Those constituents did not return The Star’s phone calls.
    Lynn Horsley, kansascity, 22 Oct. 2017
  • The last main constituent of milk is the milkfat that exists as globules in the milk.
    Science & Food, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2015
  • While many of us have heard the stories of abuses, a constituent of mine has lived it.
    Judy L. Thomas, kansascity, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Reporters spilled from the gallery to the jury box, joined by a handful of constituents.
    Jake Offenhartz, Fortune, 11 May 2023
  • Brooks explains, not one to throw any of his constituents under the bus.
    Lauren Larson, GQ, 22 June 2017
  • The two of them walked through the doors of the polling place hand in hand after greeting a constituent leaving the building.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Weaver adds, Kasich is focused on the lives of his constituents.
    Lisa Miller, Daily Intelligencer, 29 Oct. 2017
  • That view might be tough for some constituents to accept, but he’s right.
    Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2019
  • The same is true in the House, as members and constituents may lose trust in someone who has been censured.
    Allie Feinberg, The Arizona Republic, 22 June 2023
  • The phrase has three constituent elements—$3.5 trillion, spending, and bill.
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The past is an essential, inescapable constituent of the present.
    Vogue, 12 July 2021
  • Hobbs told the station she's been flooded with constituent calls about the scandal.
    CBS News, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The effect on those constituents would be quickly felt.
    Carl Hulse, New York Times, 23 May 2017
  • Her goal, mainly, is to give constituents at home another choice on the ballot for the first time in over a decade.
    Elly Belle, refinery29.com, 4 Mar. 2020
  • This was, of course, a for-profit enterprise and risk is a constituent part of that business.
    Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • One of his constituents died from the coronavirus just days later.
    Libby Cathey, ABC News, 9 Mar. 2020
  • My constituents sent me to the Tennessee State House to continue this work in their name.
    Justin J. Pearson, CNN, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The perfect person to tax is someone who’s not your constituent.
    Robert Goulder, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
  • No one knows the Jenny Han universe and her constituents like Jenny Han does.
    Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
  • Jones was back in the Capitol chambers later Monday evening and again vowed to be a voice for his constituents.
    Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2023
  • House Republicans believe that there is more dirt to be dumped out of the bag, and that their constituents should know about it.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Last spring, tensions between the school district’s board of trustees and its constituents reached a boiling point.
    Laura Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 1 June 2020
  • Then as now, politicians would give their constituents U.S. flags that had flown atop the Capitol as souvenirs.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The outreach to senators about the trial from constituents has bothered some of the jurors.
    Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2023
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constituent

2 of 2 adjective
  • The company can be separated into several constituent parts.
  • The islands are a constituent country of the Netherlands, part of the EU.
    Max Colchester and Margot Patrick, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Many of the constituent parts of METV are doing even worse.
    Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Maybe there is more to food than its constituent parts.
    WIRED, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The breakup of the Arab Joint List into its constituent factions also aided the right.
    WSJ, 2 Nov. 2022
  • That will tell you which plant the vehicle was assembled at and the sources for its constituent parts.
    Peter Weber, The Week, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The basic concept is to heat the plastics to break their chemical bonds and reduce them down to their constituent parts.
    Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Apr. 2021
  • The scenario: The president steps down or is asked to step down under pressure from one or more constituent groups.
    David Rosowsky, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • Games, in other words, cannot be judged solely in terms of their scores, stories, scenery, and other constituent arts.
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 30 June 2023
  • But at the least, findings like this should promote a fuller understanding of cannabis and its constituent parts.
    Chris Roberts, Forbes, 31 May 2021
  • To review, the equalization levy is not a constituent part of India’s Income Tax Act, 1961.
    Robert Goulder, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2021
  • The group has given out grants and staged dozens of events for Mr. Adams to host, to celebrate holidays, to honor constituent groups, and more.
    New York Times, 16 May 2021
  • The owner, fearing the online protests and anger in the neighborhood, would continue, paid the constituent $2,500 with a check, the affidavit said.
    John Caniglia, cleveland, 5 July 2020
  • These changes are a small chipping-away at a system that destroys lives but that can be broken down into its constituent parts.
    Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 4 Nov. 2020
  • Both had multiple constituent groups who needed to understand the process and the implications of the merger in their lives.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Lawmakers said a tremendous amount of work has gone into drafting the bill and engaging with a broad array of constituent groups over the last year.
    Erica E. Phillips, Hartford Courant, 13 Apr. 2022
  • One of the constituent parts of that pizza is glucose, a molecule that gets absorbed into your bloodstream.
    AZCentral.com, 14 Sep. 2022
  • From the outset, Soleimani sought to create a flexible network in which each constituent part of the axis was self-sufficient.
    Narges Bajoghli, Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The constituent green tea provides a mountain of antioxidants to strengthen and protect your hair, while the saw palmetto soothes the scalp.
    Joseph Deacetis, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The laptop market is a crowded place, with countless combinations of the constituent parts.
    Ewan Spence, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
  • No additional staff can be hired, but the current staff can stay on and perform constituent casework.
    Kevin Freking The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Big Green went into receivership and then was broken into constituent parts and sold off.
    Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 5 Mar. 2021
  • In every scenario, the eastern ice shelf will meet a fate similar to the western ice tongue: its constituent shards will disconnect and drift away.
    Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Evasion made palpable is constituent of both the structure and sense of Faulkner’s stories.
    Michael Gorra, Star Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Words aren’t just meant to be heard: Far more than the sum of its constituent characters, language is a crucial aspect of how humans navigate the world around them.
    Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Along the way, his use of constituent service funds to buy tickets to sporting events prompted questions about his use of taxpayer money.
    Paul Schwartzman, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Some decades after the painting was done, that area seems to have deteriorated into small islands of paint and become less clear due to the constituent parts of the paint.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The world’s northernmost capital, sort of Greenland is a constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark with a home rule government based in Nuuk.
    David Nikel, Forbes, 14 May 2022
  • Leftovers from several meals pulled from the fridge somehow combine into a dish that’s even better than its constituent parts.
    Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 23 July 2021
  • In the first years of the Trump presidency, Democrats on average spoke in a more outraged way than Republicans on Twitter and in constituent emails.
    Steve Eder, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2022

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