How to Use plurality in a Sentence

plurality

noun

• Aiken then seemed poised to pick up the plurality on the fourth vote.
  — Caroline Linton, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2023
• Still, the plurality of the list was made up of tech companies, with 41 making the cut.
  — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 11 Jan. 2023
• But this month, that slipped to support by a plurality, 48% for and 33% against.
  — Dallas News, 19 Apr. 2021
• This set brings a plurality of things to the bar table, nine in total.
  — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 1 Feb. 2023
• The winner would be the candidate with the most votes, which could be a small plurality.
  — Michael Smolens Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2021
• The Republicans tried, but failed, to use the plurality rule to end the debate.
  — Thomas Balcerski, CNN, 4 Jan. 2023
• Like Trump, Vance won a plurality (in this instance, about a third of the vote) en route to the nomination.
  — W. James Antle Iii, The Week, 4 May 2022
• Strong was the first candidate in the race and won the plurality in all five of the counties that make up the north Alabama district.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 26 May 2022
• Prakash’s point is made clear by the title’s plurality: Salad is not just for the warm-weather months.
  — Joe Yonan, Washington Post, 4 June 2023
• Still, as Pew noted, a plurality of U.S. adults are in agreement on the matter.
  — Steven Rosenbush, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
• Though PiS won the plurality with about 35.4 percent of the vote, it is left without a path to a governing coalition.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2023
• Just as many now say gas prices are going down, with a one-third plurality saying prices have been staying the same.
  — Kabir Khanna, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2024
• The Greek atomists also believed in the plurality of worlds.
  — Camilo Garzón, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2022
• Most of Afghanistan is Sunni, and ethnic Pashtuns — who make up most of the Taliban’s ranks — are a plurality.
  — New York Times, 15 Oct. 2021
• This is a case in which a candidate receives a plurality of votes in the first round but not the majority of them.
  — Sarah Almukhtar, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2021
• The other 48 states have plurality, or winner-take-all, voting, in which a candidate can win with less than 50% of the vote.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 29 Nov. 2022
• In 2000, the plurality of U.S. sanctions worldwide were against Iran.
  — NBC News, 29 Nov. 2021
• To end the stalemate, the House decided to adopt a plurality rule, which bypassed the need for a majority.
  — Thomas Balcerski, CNN, 4 Jan. 2023
• Published at the beginning of June, the poll found a narrow plurality of people who felt gun laws are not strict enough.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 14 June 2023
• Later, it was cited as 23 or 24 weeks in the Casey plurality opinion.
  — Erin Spencer Sairam, Forbes, 6 June 2022
• As ballot counting began Tuesday, a plurality of Democrats ranked Adams as their first choice in the race.
  — Time, 23 June 2021
• People surveyed said that crime was, by far, the biggest issue facing the city, with a plurality of 44%.
  — Wilborn P. Nobles Iii, ajc, 15 Sep. 2021
• Pollsters have widely predicted that the party will win a plurality but draw less than 50 percent of the vote for the first time.
  — Lynsey Chutel, New York Times, 29 May 2024
• This system opens the way for Gross, or another strong Democrat, to win even if Tshibaka gets a plurality on the first count.
  — Arkansas Online, 17 June 2021
• Instead, someone in this congressional race could win with a plurality as small as just over a third of the vote.
  — Daniel Borenstein, The Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2024
• Those 1,100 counties hold a plurality of the nation’s up-for-grabs electorate.
  — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2022
• The 1856 fight for speaker took two months, the longest in history, and was only resolved with a plurality vote.
  — Matthew Brown, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Jan. 2023
• Lincoln won the Electoral College but came away with only a plurality of the popular vote in a four-way race.
  — Jay Reeves and Julie Carr Smythe, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Jan. 2021
• Prior to the war, Fatah commanded a small plurality in the same poll (26-22 percent).
  — Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 4 Oct. 2024
• But these laws, which have been adopted incrementally over time, are not formally defined, and most of them can be amended or annulled by a plurality of votes in the Knesset, just like any other law.
  — Dahlia Scheindlin, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024