How to Use faction in a Sentence
faction
noun- The committee soon split into factions.
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The faction has also popped up on the blue brand in the past.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
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There was a faction [that] stood up against them and tried to stop them on the march.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Feb. 2022
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Along the way, Cargill also formed her own faction.
—Fernando Quiles Jr, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
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This faction was dead set against the sharing of any school supplies.
—Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 13 Aug. 2025
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His star power has not appeared to wane since then among some factions.
—ABC News, 10 Apr. 2026
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The divide between these two factions is too vast.
—NBC news, 31 May 2026
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Yet both groups contain factions and shades of opinion.
—Obi Anyadike, semafor.com, 23 Mar. 2026
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The warring factions risk splitting the sport in two.
—Chris Marshall-Bell, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
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A lot more than split factions in a teachers union is riding on this election.
—Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2025
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This change comes at a time of intense turmoil within the faction.
—Andrew Ravens, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
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The second point is that some of the rebel factions are quite disciplined.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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There’s a street war between feuding factions!
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
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There’s a street war between feuding factions!
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 4 May 2026
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And seats are awarded based on the proportion of votes each faction gets.
—Mary Ellen Klas, Mercury News, 26 May 2026
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And seats are awarded based on the proportion of votes each faction gets.
—Mary Ellen Klas, Boston Herald, 1 June 2026
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Both hard-right and far-left factions in Israel have denounced it.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2026
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Three factions, three problems.
—Daren Smith, IndieWire, 13 May 2026
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There are always crises to manage and factions to pacify.
—Silas Allen, Dallas Morning News, 24 Mar. 2026
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But no amount of protesting will bring our factions together.
—Harvey Levine, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
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Roman's new faction will need a fourth, and all signs point to Hikuleo filling that spot.
—Brian Mazique, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024
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Hook hopes an induction could perhaps serve as an olive branch between the two factions.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2026
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But this still put a small faction of students in the large district in avoidable danger.
—Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 22 Mar. 2026
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This brought out members of the faction JetSpeed, who came to her aid.
—Andrew Ravens, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
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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
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Behind the chaos are two rival factions of the Sinaloa cartel.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 9 Oct. 2024
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Matamoros is home to warring factions of the Gulf drug cartel.
—Alfredo Corchado, Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2023
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As soon as the conflict began to wind down, so did the faction’s ability to shape events.
—Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2025
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What are the differences between the two factions?
—Theo Lloyd-Hughes, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2026
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The two factions went to war, spilling blood through the streets of Philadelphia.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
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