How to Use major party in a Sentence

major party

noun

• The idea is that having a judge from each major party helps keep the count fair and honest.
  — Kim Crockett, Star Tribune, 21 Aug. 2020
• Since both major party nominees live outside of the district this year — a first in Utah — that likely won’t become a point of contention in this race.
  — Taylor Stevens, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Sep. 2020
• Whether the Republican party continues as America’s first platform-free major party remains to be seen.
  — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2020
• Both remain crucial to the prospects of the two major parties.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• The bill had the support of all of Thailand’s major parties and was more than a decade in the making.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 27 Mar. 2024
• Buttigieg was the first out gay man to run for president from a major party.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2020
• Harris is the first Black and South Asian woman to lead a major party ticket.
  — Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2024
• In times past, many state delegations to the Senate were split between the two major parties.
  — Dan Balz and Clara Ence Morse, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2023
• Jeffries becomes the first Black person to lead a major party in either the House or Senate.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 30 Nov. 2022
• More than sixty per cent of the electorate doesn’t identify with a major party.
  — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2022
• Biden and Trump are the two oldest major party candidates ever to get on the ballot.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2024
• Allen, 49, enters the field as the first Black woman to run for governor as part of a major party in state history.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2021
• This does not shield them, however, from the meddling of major party leaders.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
• Oz is believed to be the first Muslim nominee for Senate from a major party.
  — Liam Stack, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2022
• Of course Tom Cotton--the man the left loves to hate in Arkansas--wouldn't have major party opposition.
  — Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2020
• On the campaign trail, Biden proposed the most aggressive plan of any major party nominee to try to slow that warming.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Nov. 2020
• The number of House members who are not facing an opponent from the other major party.
  — Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2022
• Abrams ran for governor of Georgia in 2018, the first Black woman to run for governor of any state on a major party's ticket.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 7 Nov. 2020
• Less than half the Democratic respondents supported the idea of a third major party, Gallup found.
  — Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024
• January 6 showed how fragile that democracy is, and the year since has confirmed that at least one major party will not be a partner in the fight to defend it.
  — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 5 Jan. 2022
• One hundred years after some women gained the right to vote, Kamala Harris emerged as the first woman of Black and Asian descent to run on a major party ticket.
  — Khalilah L. Brown-Dean, Star Tribune, 16 Nov. 2020
• Of the 13 Black women who ran for Senate last year, only one became a major party’s nominee.
  — Mabinty Quarshie, USA TODAY, 10 June 2021
• But with a third major party in the mix, nobody could declare outright victory.
  — Riazat Butt and Munir Ahmed The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 10 Feb. 2024
• The New York representative will be the first Black lawmaker to lead a major party in Congress.
  — Caren Bohan, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2022
• Notables: The first Black woman to run for governor as part of a major party in state history.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2021
• The magnet holds each and every cap, which also prevents you from getting your caps all over the floor after every open — a major party foul in itself.
  — Tim Kohut, BGR, 24 June 2021
• Adduci said the founders know that campaign fundraising will be a big challenge without major party support.
  — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 29 Mar. 2022
• Castillo said that the large number of parties reflects the presence of many satellite parties that orbit around major parties.
  — Soudi Jiménez, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
• Even the idea of using a pick to balance a ticket — like pairing the first major party nominee who is a woman of color with a white male in the case of Harris selecting Walz — may also be overstated.
  — Will Weissert, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2024
• Even the idea of using a pick to balance a ticket – like pairing the first major party nominee who is a woman of color with a white male in the case of Ms. Harris selecting Mr. Walz – may also be overstated.
  — Will Weissert, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024