How to Use minority in a Sentence

minority

noun

• The proposal is opposed by a minority of voters.
• The Republicans are now the minority in the Senate.
• The group is becoming an influential minority in the community.
• Joe Lacob had to sell his minority stake in the Celtics to buy the Warriors in 2010.
  — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 1 June 2022
• In the contest to find a new British prime minister, white men are in the minority.
  — Max Colchester, WSJ, 18 July 2022
• Masked faces were in the minority elsewhere in the district.
  — Karen Kaplanscience and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2022
• But to be clear, this is a minority of companies that have tried it out.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 13 Oct. 2022
• But the news applied only to a minority of the Rafaelo Afghans.
  — Abigail Hauslohner, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2022
• With the upgrade, Shaw moved into the bullish minority on Wall Street.
  — Alex Harring,fred Imbert, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2024
• And yet, even Manning told me this week buying a minority stake in the Giants was just too steep a cost.
  — Alex Sherman, CNBC, 11 July 2025
• The bigots and the racists have always been the minority in our society.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2022
• As a Tigrayan, Amare was an ethnic minority in the region.
  — Time, 14 Dec. 2022
• Only a minority of the birds have mastered this process.
  — Marlene Zuk, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Aug. 2022
• The non-profit will still own a minority stake in the new for-profit version of the company.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2024
• At least 15% of the development costs must go to firms owned by women or minorities.
  — Wire Services, Dallas News, 17 May 2023
• The suit also says that as a white student, Newman belonged to the racial minority at Howard.
  — Claretta Bellamy, NBC News, 28 Feb. 2023
• Avionord, which has taken a minority stake in Manta, has agreed to buy up to 15 ANN aircraft.
  — J. George Gorant, Robb Report, 16 May 2022
• So, why not make a movie for the majority instead of the minority?
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 21 Oct. 2022
• Scott Walker, lost his seat on the court in 2020 to Jill Karofsky, a member of the court's liberal minority.
  — Molly Beck, Journal Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2022
• This was quite an awakening as for most of my life I am defined as being part of a minority class.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 July 2025
• Half the board is appointed by the House speaker and half by the minority party leader.
  — Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2025
• To satisfy the law, both seats need to be filled by women, one of them needs to be a minority and one needs to be a Republican.
  — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 25 May 2023
• Ship immigrants back to their countries and go back to slavery times for minorities.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 28 June 2024
• Safe Spaces are locations not seen as a threat or a challenge to minorities.
  — Sophie Clark, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
• Keeping money in the city Of 66 contractors in the city of Detroit, 48 are minority-owned.
  — Chanel Stitt, Detroit Free Press, 5 Apr. 2022
• At the time, sizable minority of traders thought that the Fed might slow its pace of rate increases come September.
  — Matt Grossman, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2022
• Plotkin has been a minority stakeholder in the Hornets since 2019.
  — Steve Reed and Tim Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2023
• That being said, being a minority and female cofounders, the odds are stacked against us.
  — Rachel King, Fortune, 3 July 2022
• For a small minority, their truth is always going to be born of spite and privilege.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2023
• Feldman has not yet been asked to appear before the committee’s majority and minority counsel for a transcribed interview.
  — Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 14 July 2025