How to Use consensus in a Sentence

consensus

noun

• There is a lack of consensus among the citizens.
• The decision was made by consensus.
• Everyone on the council seems to understand the need for consensus.
• The consensus then became that the rest of the moon was dry.
  — Fox News, 16 Mar. 2020
• But there seems to be a consensus that the number is not small.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 11 June 2021
• But even small points of consensus could be hard to come by.
  — Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 8 May 2023
• That didn’t seem to be the consensus among my friends, though.
  — Ruthie Ackerman, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2023
• These are the issues that tug to the appeal of wider consensus....
  — Rebecca Beitsch, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 July 2018
• There never was consensus among the creators of the game.
  — Dorothy Dworkin, Sun Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2022
• There is still no consensus on whether the virus did leak from the Wuhan lab.
  — Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner, 5 Mar. 2023
• Rodríguez is a consensus top-five prospect in the sport.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 11 July 2021
• And if there was no consensus, then the girls’ schools would not open.
  — New York Times, 8 Aug. 2022
• There’s no clear consensus on when and how these dogs should be used to bite.
  — Abbie Vansickle and Challen Stephens, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2020
• Critics have reached a new consensus about the greatest films of all time.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 2 Dec. 2022
• Once there is a consensus about what is wrong and why, the new norms must be enforced.
  — The Economist, 19 Dec. 2017
• There is little consensus as to why gun sales and deaths have jumped so much over the past two years.
  — Washington Post, 8 July 2022
• They’re cursed, and there’s no consensus on a cause or how to break it.
  — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 11 Mar. 2023
• The consensus seems to be that where the next mass shooting will happen is tough to predict.
  — The Courier-Journal, 16 Apr. 2023
• But when something seems to work, try it, was the consensus.
  — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 23 July 2022
• There was a consensus among officials that a line had to be drawn.
  — Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2022
• But over the past few weeks, that consensus is no longer so unified.
  — Fortune, 7 Feb. 2022
• Yet on both sides of the divide, people share a consensus on a few things.
  — Calvin Woodward, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Jan. 2022
• The group could not come to a consensus on no-knock warrants, the report said.
  — Molly Beck, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2021
• So there was a consensus among marcher that assault weapons should be banned.
  — Fox News, 27 Mar. 2018
• What player in this draft has a consensus big board ranking that makes no sense to you and why?
  — USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2022
• There is no consensus as to what the Kings will do with the second overall pick.
  — Jason Jones, sacbee, 20 June 2018
• The era of rule by party consensus is finished, at least for now.
  — Ian Bremmer, Time, 3 May 2018
• But after months of debate, the group was never able to come to a consensus.
  — oregonlive, 30 Aug. 2023
• There is a broad consensus among scientists that changing the clocks twice a year is a bad idea.
  — Jen Smith, CNN, 3 Sep. 2020
• Iowa was the consensus second-place pick with three first-place votes.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 25 July 2022

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024