How to Use constituency in a Sentence

constituency

noun

• He was elected to represent a Liverpool constituency.
• The senator's constituency includes a large minority population.
• In short, two constituencies: those who baked and those who faked.
  — Charlotte Druckman, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• But there was strong push against it from the industry, and not enough constituency pushing for it.
  — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2023
• In São Paulo state, Brazil’s largest electoral constituency, the returns were mixed.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
• There is a little bit of good news in the exit polls regarding the Democrats’ working-class constituency, or what’s left of it.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 10 Nov. 2022
• Four hundred seats will be determined by first-past-the-post races in each constituency.
  — Grant Peck, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Mar. 2023
• Which isn’t to say all karaoke patrons share the confidence of Baby Grand’s core constituency.
  — Christine Werthman, Billboard, 7 Oct. 2022
• The grain tiff plays directly to a key constituency of the ruling party: farmers.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2023
• Koch blames his loss on the redistricting of his constituency.
  — Dallas News, 9 Nov. 2022
• In Austin, the issue stirred to life a conservative constituency that few realized was present in the city.
  — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• In 2010, constituency boundaries were changed and Jackson ran for the post for the redefined Hampstead and Kilburn area.
  — Tim Gray, Variety, 15 June 2023
• The Council’s thought process: fill the seat as soon as possible so that the constituency has representation on the dais.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2023
• Voters get two votes on the ballot: one for a candidate in their local constituency and one for the party.
  — Helen Regan, CNN, 13 Oct. 2023
• Its long-term problems will require the patience of a much larger constituency.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2022
• Ultimately, their only action was to close down the least of them, the OTS, and keep the rest, each of which had its own constituency of supporters.
  — Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica, 17 Mar. 2023
• His efforts to win over union households — a key constituency in the state — have received mixed reception so far.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2024
• Aristotle faced the challenge of courting the same constituency armed with a more modest product.
  — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• Recreation built a constituency that helped protect wild places.
  — WIRED, 8 July 2023
• Givens pointed out that at their 2015 campaign run, more than a dozen other Black women were also on the ticket, which drew ire from a large part of the constituency.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 10 Oct. 2022
• Labour held onto the City of Chester constituency with a vote share of 61%, according to results announced Friday.
  — Arkansas Online, 3 Dec. 2022
• No single constituency, of course, will determine the outcome of these races in a state as big as Pennsylvania, let alone the 2022 midterms.
  — Shane Goldmacher, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2022
• Enforcing the law means inviting the wrath of the powerful constituency, Sikh farmers.
  — Nives Dolsak and Aseem Prakash, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• The idea is to get feedback from many constituencies because the status quo is not necessarily a good thing.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024
• The real reason was that the Fed’s most powerful and vocal constituency was, and remains, the banks, which don’t care one whit about people getting thrown out of work.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2023
• These forces also serve as the constituency for Korea’s far-right government.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 11 July 2023
• But some operatives said Scott could appeal to a constituency too small to matter.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 24 Feb. 2023
• With the conflict deepening, Abiy also seems to lack a substantial constituency of his own.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
• The issue was one of several in recent years that have pitted the two key constituencies of the Democratic Party against each other.
  — Dan Petrella, Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2023
• Trump has tried to capitalize on the strike to drive a wedge between Biden and union workers, a constituency that helped pave the way for the ex-president’s surprise 2016 victory.
  — Jill Colvin, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024