How to Use major party in a Sentence

major party

noun
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  • Both remain crucial to the prospects of the two major parties.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The bill had the support of all of Thailand’s major parties and was more than a decade in the making.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The idea is that having a judge from each major party helps keep the count fair and honest.
    — Kim Crockett, Star Tribune, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Buttigieg was the first out gay man to run for president from a major party.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Harris is the first Black and South Asian woman to lead a major party ticket.
    — Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2024
  • This marks a slight drop in registration for both major parties over the past four years.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2024
  • In times past, many state delegations to the Senate were split between the two major parties.
    — Dan Balz and Clara Ence Morse, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The first woman to have her name placed in nomination by a major party.
    — cleveland, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Jeffries becomes the first Black person to lead a major party in either the House or Senate.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 30 Nov. 2022
  • More than sixty per cent of the electorate doesn’t identify with a major party.
    — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Biden and Trump are the two oldest major party candidates ever to get on the ballot.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2024
  • The result is a long-term narrative portrait of our two major parties, now both over 150 years old.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Allen, 49, enters the field as the first Black woman to run for governor as part of a major party in state history.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2021
  • This does not shield them, however, from the meddling of major party leaders.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
  • Lawyers involved in the negations told the NYT that the settlement has gotten approval from the major parties involved.
    — Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Oz is believed to be the first Muslim nominee for Senate from a major party.
    — Liam Stack, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2022
  • The coronavirus stock market plunge could spoil a major party for Wall Street: The bull market's 11th birthday.
    — CBS News, 6 Mar. 2020
  • The two major parties that support the ban will contest a federal election next year.
    — Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 23 Nov. 2024
  • By late August, many voters will focus on just the two people chosen by the major parties.
    — Christina Barron, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2020
  • Lawmakers of both major parties and small businesses that were turned away said the bulk of the money had gone to large hotel and restaurant chains.
    — Author: Karen Deyoung, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Apr. 2020
  • Of course Tom Cotton--the man the left loves to hate in Arkansas--wouldn't have major party opposition.
    — Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2020
  • Harris is the first Black woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2020
  • On the campaign trail, Biden proposed the most aggressive plan of any major party nominee to try to slow that warming.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Anthony says the time is long overdue for a Black woman to reach the national ticket of a major party.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 16 Aug. 2020
  • The number of House members who are not facing an opponent from the other major party.
    — Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Abrams ran for governor of Georgia in 2018, the first Black woman to run for governor of any state on a major party's ticket.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 7 Nov. 2020
  • Since both major party nominees live outside of the district this year — a first in Utah — that likely won’t become a point of contention in this race.
    — Taylor Stevens, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Harris is the first Black woman and first Asian American woman to run on a major party ticket.
    — National Geographic, 17 Aug. 2020
  • This year’s election was about as fractious with neither major party’s presidential nominee earning 50% of the vote.
    — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Only once in American history has a new party replaced a major party.
    — Jim Nowlan, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Nov. 2024

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