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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Oz is believed to be the first Muslim nominee for Senate from a major party.
    — Liam Stack, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • Less than half the Democratic respondents supported the idea of a third major party, Gallup found.
    — Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Both major parties are aiming to sway voters in the struggle for Senate control.
    — Shannon McDonagh, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The first black woman to run as a major party candidate for president.
    — cleveland, 12 Aug. 2020
  • January 6 showed how fragile that democracy is, and the year since has confirmed that at least one major party will not be a partner in the fight to defend it.
    — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 5 Jan. 2022
  • One hundred years after some women gained the right to vote, Kamala Harris emerged as the first woman of Black and Asian descent to run on a major party ticket.
    — Khalilah L. Brown-Dean, Star Tribune, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Of the 13 Black women who ran for Senate last year, only one became a major party’s nominee.
    — Mabinty Quarshie, USA TODAY, 10 June 2021
  • But with a third major party in the mix, nobody could declare outright victory.
    — Riazat Butt and Munir Ahmed The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 10 Feb. 2024
  • That’s difficult to say for sure, but the former teacher and football coach is certainly the least wealthy person on either major party ticket this year.
    — Kyle Khan-Mullins, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • With six third-party candidates on the ballot for president, Michigan is matched only by Wisconsin for having the most options among swing states for protest voters unhappy with the choices the two major parties have given them.
    — Kristi Tanner, Detroit Free Press, 2 Nov. 2024

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