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.
• With the upgrade, Shaw moved into the bullish minority on Wall Street.
  — Alex Harring,fred Imbert, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2024
• As a Tigrayan, Amare was an ethnic minority in the region.
  — Time, 14 Dec. 2022
• The non-profit will still own a minority stake in the new for-profit version of the company.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2024
• At least 15% of the development costs must go to firms owned by women or minorities.
  — Wire Services, Dallas News, 17 May 2023
• The suit also says that as a white student, Newman belonged to the racial minority at Howard.
  — Claretta Bellamy, NBC News, 28 Feb. 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
• Ship immigrants back to their countries and go back to slavery times for minorities.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 28 June 2024
• Safe Spaces are locations not seen as a threat or a challenge to minorities.
  — Sophie Clark, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
• Plotkin has been a minority stakeholder in the Hornets since 2019.
  — Steve Reed and Tim Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2023
• For a small minority, their truth is always going to be born of spite and privilege.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 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
• There will be a large and vocal minority who will be very critical of you, who are very critical of you now.
  — NBC News, 25 Dec. 2022
• Not one minority on the district or circuit court sitting on the bench in Mobile County.
  — al, 8 Feb. 2023
• As part of the transaction, Disney is selling its minority stake in Boom!
  — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 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
• Critics have argued that minority groups are more likely to be sentenced—and given longer prison terms—for their crimes.
  — Byrodrigo Pérez Ortega, science.org, 19 Apr. 2023
• The lack of diversity among advocates stands in sharp contrast with the Supreme Court itself, where white men are now a minority.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
• 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
• Eight are in the 23-member majority, nine are in the 16-member minority.
  — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Feb. 2023
• 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
• Brinker sold its minority share to a Houston company in 2013.
  — Dallas News, 22 Feb. 2023
• Women still make up a minority of students at business schools, per a report out Thursday.
  — Emily Peck, Axios, 31 Oct. 2024
• Trump's relationships with his own party in the Senate have long been touch and go, and the chamber's rules afford the minority party the chance to slow-walk or even kill bills that don't involve some degree of bipartisanship.
  — Riley Beggin, USA TODAY, 8 Nov. 2024
• While college is still a good financial bet on average, a substantial minority of students do not see a return on investment.
  — Preston Cooper, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024