How to Use minority in a Sentence

minority

noun

• The proposal is opposed by a minority of voters.
• The Republicans are now the minority in the Senate.
• The group is becoming an influential minority in the community.
• At least 15% of the development costs must go to firms owned by women or minorities.
  — Wire Services, Dallas News, 17 May 2023
• To satisfy the law, both seats need to be filled by women, one of them needs to be a minority and one needs to be a Republican.
  — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 25 May 2023
• Plotkin has been a minority stakeholder in the Hornets since 2019.
  — Steve Reed and Tim Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2023
• Now, Dundee is increasing its share to 74.2% and UMG will hold the remaining minority share.
  — Kristin Robinson, Billboard, 20 Feb. 2024
• The share of voters who believe the nation is on the right track remains a dismal and diminutive minority at 24 percent.
  — Shane Goldmacher, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2024
• Taft spoke for the majority, Holmes and Brandeis for the minority.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
• To meet state law, Beshear needed to fill both seats with women, one of whom needed to be a racial minority and one of whom needed to be a Republican.
  — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 31 May 2023
• Healthy kids are at very low risk from covid, and online won't work especially for the lower income and minority kids.
  — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
• But critics argue the tests could worsen inequalities and hurt the chances for many minorities, who tend to score lower, to gain access to better schools.
  — Brammhi Balarajan, CNN, 25 Feb. 2024
• That led schools to place quotas on female enrollment, to insure that women would remain a minority of the class.
  — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2023
• Tyson is not only taking a minority stake in the company, but is working alongside it to build a US factory.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 20 Oct. 2023
• Almost all the cases occurred at people’s homes, while a minority occurred out in public or in nursing homes.
  — Akshay Syal, M.d., NBC News, 25 July 2023
• But the ordinary budget process is so broken that debt limit debates remain one of the few ways that the minority party can call attention to spending and the debt.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2023
• This is for the Asian community, but for anybody who’s been identified as a minority.
  — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 July 2023
• There’s no doubt a need for smaller urban EVs that don’t clog up street parking, even if those asking for it are possibly a vocal minority.
  — Umar Shakir, The Verge, 26 Oct. 2023
• Even so, McCarthy was fighting to ensure that a majority of his 222 members vote for the bill, limiting the reliance on minority Democrats to pass it.
  — Billy House, Fortune, 30 May 2023
• Most importantly, of all the patients who would take Xenical, only a small minority would see that effect.
  — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 20 Jan. 2024
• While that is true in some cases, research has found that if someone attempts suicide but the act is not completed, a small minority – one in 10 – of those people go on to die by suicide.
  — John Diedrich, Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2023
• What’s more, although for the most part employees reported an increase in their well-being and work-life balance, for a small minority of employees this was not the case.
  — Byorianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 27 July 2023
• To get into the runoff, however, Garvey would have to consolidate most of the vote from the state’s Republican minority.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• The unit focuses on domestic groups and people who seek to target minorities because of their race or ethnicity, such as neo-Nazis.
  — Tom Winter, NBC News, 19 July 2023
• On Thursday, the Dodgers reserved a front-row seat — right next to general manager Brandon Gomes — for one of their current minority owners.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023
• Ohio voters have overwhelmingly rejected an amendment to raise the threshold for ballot initiatives to 60 percent of votes, which would have paved the way for minority rule in the state.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
• In his role at Meta, Clegg is among a minority of tech execs unreservedly backing the potential for AI, pouring cold water on panic about the tech’s threats.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2023
• At first, things changed slowly, and only for a minority of participants.
  — Helen A. Berger, The Conversation, 26 July 2023
• There have been multiple incidences of assaults on minorities, and even lynchings.
  — Parth M.n., WIRED, 17 July 2023
• Today, roughly half of the CIT program trainees are women, and a third are from underrepresented minorities.
  — Peter Vanham, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 5 May 2024