How to Use major party in a Sentence

major party

noun
  • The third major party of note, the PPP, is seen as a long shot.
    Madeleine Ngo, Vox, 25 July 2018
  • Both remain crucial to the prospects of the two major parties.
    David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The moves show the kind of impact the AfD are having on the campaign and major parties.
    Sebastian Shukla, CNN, 1 Feb. 2025
  • 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 attacks come at a time when more than 300 women from the two major parties have filed to run for the U.S. House.
    Tess Williams, The Seattle Times, 22 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • And the responsiveness cannot be only on the part of one of the two major parties.
    Dylan Matthews, Vox, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Buttigieg was the first out gay man to run for president from a major party.
    David Oliver, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2020
  • To the eyes of the public, the two major parties seemed nearly identical.
    Sally Rooney, The New York Review of Books, 18 Apr. 2019
  • Both major parties have added members in the past two years, but Democrats increased their ranks faster.
    Joshua Stewart, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 Mar. 2018
  • Harris is the first Black and South Asian woman to lead a major party ticket.
    Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2024
  • At best, third parties serve as prods to force the major parties to adjust their agenda.
    Jeet Heer, New Republic, 30 Jan. 2018
  • This marks a slight drop in registration for both major parties over the past four years.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2024
  • So do so many cradle-to-grave politicos — in both major parties.
    Ken Fisher, USA TODAY, 13 May 2018
  • This will be the second major party event Booker is poised to attend.
    Paulina Dedaj, Fox News, 13 Sep. 2018
  • 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
  • Only Johnson and Corbyn will take part -- the first time leaders of Britain's two major parties have faced each other head-to-head on the same stage.
    Rob Picheta, CNN, 19 Nov. 2019
  • There will be seven major parties for which Germans will vote.
    Sebastian Shukla, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Yet politicians from both major parties largely agree on two key points.
    Charles Koch and Brian Hooks, Twin Cities, 15 Aug. 2019
  • This does not shield them, however, from the meddling of major party leaders.
    Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
  • Yes, Hillary Clinton was the worst major party nominee in decades.
    Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 1 June 2018
  • But a new set of data this week shows some of the most significant gaps between the two major parties are growing wider.
    NBC News, 25 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • The new government will be a coalition of all the island’s major parties except one — the Naleraq party, which has the closest connections to Mr. Trump.
    Maya Tekeli, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025

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