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
• Khan was more focused on something that was actually harming thousands of his constituents.
  — Peter Guest, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2024
• Only that can ensure that every vote counts and representatives have to be responsive to their constituents.
  — TIME, 1 Apr. 2024

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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

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024