How to Use faction in a Sentence

faction

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  • The committee soon split into factions.
  • The strangest part: These factions don’t have much in common.
    — Nicholas Pompella, National Review, 28 May 2023
  • The country split in 2014 between warring factions in the east and west.
    — Mostafa Salem, CNN, 17 Mar. 2023
  • This would be the first time the Transformers and Joes have crossed over on the big screen, but the two factions have already teamed up in the comics world.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 9 June 2023
  • Behind the chaos are two rival factions of the Sinaloa cartel.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Roman's new faction will need a fourth, and all signs point to Hikuleo filling that spot.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024
  • Rival factions of the Gulf drug cartel have been at war in streets of Matamoros for years.
    — Paul Best, Fox News, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Matamoros is home to warring factions of the Gulf drug cartel.
    — Alfredo Corchado, Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Biggs is part of a far-right faction called the Freedom Caucus.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2022
  • His attorney asked what would have happened if he’d been caught in the middle of the two factions.
    — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Drescher was first elected in 2021, and has worked to unify the warring factions within the union.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The latter faction fled and entrenched itself in the island of Taiwan.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The Reed faction won control of the party last August and installed Kelley as chair.
    — Alander Rocha, al, 11 Sep. 2023
  • McCarthy was ousted by a small faction of his own party after nine months on the job.
    — John Parkinson, ABC News, 18 Apr. 2024
  • There’s one faction of the legislature that will say that the increase for schools is long overdue.
    — Isabelle Ross, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2023
  • The news is not sitting well with a faction of the Democratic Party. — Sí quema cuh!
    — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023
  • But the comments from two factions firing at each other in the streets rang hollow for many Sudanese.
    — Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The explosion of the drama between the East Coast and the West Coast factions of hip-hop that would later lead to bloodshed happened that night.
    — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Just what have your favorite factions — er, actors been up to lately?
    — Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 24 Feb. 2024
  • But there is still a faction of conservatives who are vowing to vote no.
    — Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 23 Sep. 2024
  • What if the sparring factions couldn’t agree on the best spots to build solar and wind farms, and instead wasted years arguing?
    — Sammy Roth, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2023
  • Whatever the outcome of this legal dispute may be, one thing’s clear: there’s no love lost between the two factions of the Rivera clan.
    — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
  • And at nearly every turn, a small faction of far-right lawmakers has blocked his plans.
    — Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Cognac, creamy stouts and bourbon were mentioned by the anti-wine faction.
    — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Genesis is part of the faction Exile along with Ice Cold and Exodus.
    — Jim Varsallone, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2024
  • In August, one rebel faction in the low-level, four-decade Casamance conflict signed a peace deal with the Senegalese government.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Last August, Reed’s faction won control of the party and elected Kelley chair.
    — Brian Lyman, al, 17 June 2023
  • Different factions took different lessons with them from The Builder War.
    — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • And yet, as vote counting finished over the weekend, would-be lawmakers from a faction technically barred from the polls were in the lead.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2024
  • In 2014, the country fell into a civil war that led to it splitting between warring factions.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 13 Sep. 2023

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