How to Use quorum in a Sentence

quorum

noun

• We need five people to make a quorum.
• In fact, hasn't had a quorum for much of the last year.
  — CBS News, 10 June 2020
• The proxy votes were used to achieve a quorum for the meeting.
  — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 9 Jan. 2024
• For the past four months, the CFB could not function due to lack of a quorum.
  — Robert Moilanen, Star Tribune, 1 Aug. 2021
• The House plans to check for a quorum at 11 a.m. on Wednesday.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2021
• The 63 members present were fewer than the quorum of 84.
  — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2020
• Were able to break the filibuster, get a quorum and vote.
  — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2021
• As of Friday, the House has still been unable to reach a quorum.
  — Emily Caldwell, Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2021
• That vote took place but the committee did not have a quorum.
  — Marc Caputo, NBC News, 20 Jan. 2023
• The city charter says that two-thirds of the council is needed for a quorum.
  — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2024
• Since there was no longer a quorum for the session, it was canceled.
  — New York Times, 25 Sep. 2019
• Stutes said the House lacked a quorum to conduct business.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Feb. 2021
• The group has struggled to get a quorum because of six unfilled seats.
  — oregonlive, 29 Apr. 2022
• That brought the total number to the required two-thirds of members present for a quorum.
  — Dianne Gallagher, CNN, 19 Aug. 2021
• The Democrats’ flight from the Capitol to an East Austin church denied a quorum and killed the elections measure.
  — Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 6 July 2021
• The quorum percentage decreased over the next few months.
  — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2022
• If a quorum of four were present, state law would have required the meetings to be held in public.
  — Lance Williams By, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Nov. 2021
• On Monday, the House, which is still a few members shy of a quorum, issued the call for a second time.
  — James BarragÁn, Chron, 10 Aug. 2021
• That would leave just two of the five members voting on the deal, short of the quorum required in the nonprofit’s bylaws.
  — Mike Rogoway, oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2022
• The commission would still have a quorum of three members to have a meeting.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 8 Aug. 2023
• No quorum, so all board members were given a one-year term.
  — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Nov. 2021
• The appeals board had been without quorum for some time and her case has been languishing, the ACLU said.
  — NBC News, 8 Apr. 2022
• So when a quorum returned to the Senate floor on June 15, hundreds of bills were ready for final votes.
  — oregonlive, 25 June 2023
• The pro-Wilson board members counted Wilson as a board member to get to a quorum and passed the deal.
  — David Jesse, Detroit Free Press, 15 Nov. 2019
• Both issues died in the House last month after Democrats broke quorum through a walkout.
  — Rick Klein, Averi Harper, ABC News, 25 June 2021
• The House had a quorum as of 6:13 p.m. local time after several more Democrats returned to the floor.
  — Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2021
• The requirement is two-thirds of all present and voting when a quorum is present, not two-thirds of all the senators.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 2 Nov. 2021
• The House adjourned early because of a lack of a quorum after the walkout.
  — Emily Donaldson, Dallas News, 10 June 2021
• The commission had lacked a quorum from March until early June.
  — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2024
• As such, a Chicago Tribune review of records found, the commission has failed to reach a quorum in a little over a third of its meetings since its first in December 2022, causing delays in votes on key issues.
  — Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 10 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024