How to Use partisan in a Sentence

partisan

1 of 2 noun

• So what do those partisans want?
  — Anthony Salvanto, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2026
• Some partisans wondered at the choice.
  — Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 29 Dec. 2025
• To love sports is, on some level, to be a partisan of everyday life.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2020
• This rhetoric is not just the thoughtless ramblings of mindless partisans.
  — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 30 Apr. 2026
• His partisans, who are legion, would celebrate him for the same reason.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• After the war began, her father let partisans use the family farm as a hide-out.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2023
• To be a partisan is to live in intellectual bondage.
  — John H Bolthouse, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2025
• Of course, partisans see things differently on the issue front.
  — Dana Blanton, Fox News, 14 Feb. 2024
• Still, DeSantis is taking care not to seem like a naked partisan.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 28 Sep. 2022
• Tribalism renders too many partisans unable to think ahead more than one election.
  — Washington Post Editorial Board, Twin Cities, 29 May 2026
• The mood this time was understandably less buoyant among the Knicks partisans.
  — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 9 June 2026
• Posts are then shared and promoted by partisans or others just seeking clicks and followers.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Oct. 2023
• As the partisan is climbing a stepladder outside the house to look into the window of this room, the owner returns.
  — Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 31 Mar. 2021
• This has not always endeared him to some Democratic partisans.
  — Jason Zengerle, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
• Late in the film, an unnamed character — likely a partisan — sits down at a piano to play a song with an unusual melody.
  — Andrew Lapin, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
• Washington urged us to think as Americans first, not partisans.
  — Janet Nguyen, Oc Register, 23 Sep. 2025
• Owens, the pollster, said such talk resonates with the 33% of the electorate that does not identify as a partisan.
  — Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 18 Apr. 2021
• The truth is, the average partisan will accept whatever they’re told to believe.
  — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 8 Jan. 2026
• Will the losing team’s partisans become known as championship deniers?
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2023
• The map of states that offer the highest-quality public preschool programs would surprise some partisans.
  — Moriah Balingit, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
• The map of states that offer the highest-quality public preschool programs would surprise some partisans.
  — ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026
• For many voters, negative coverage of a fellow partisan is not a warning sign.
  — Brandon Rottinghaus, The Conversation, 5 Jan. 2026
• For many voters, negative coverage of a fellow partisan is not a warning sign.
  — Brandon Rottinghaus, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2026
• Vice presidents used to embrace their role as national leaders who could calm passions rather than partisans who rub salt in every wound.
  — Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 19 Oct. 2025
• That means lawmakers in both parties are, for the most part, picked in primary elections by a small number of the most ardent partisans.
  — Kevin Sullivan, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2023
• Even the country’s most panicked partisans wouldn’t put money on Comey serving a day in prison for the serious crimes he’s charged with.
  — Marc Novicoff, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2026
• But a less honorable motive was to stage a debate so it could be hijacked by partisans who tried to play back-stage political games for the sport of it.
  — Dean Minnich, Baltimore Sun, 10 Feb. 2024
• Republicans are all in on giving away goodies to their co-partisans and fermenting a code that looks like Swiss cheese.
  — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2026
• Most typically vote like partisans, in favor of their preferred party.
  — Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 16 Feb. 2026
• And maybe the extreme partisans would say, If Mitt Romney gets elected, the world’s going to end.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2023

partisan

2 of 2 adjective

• But partisan strife has a long reach.
  — Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 24 May 2026
• It was then used for partisan means.
  — ABC News, 3 May 2026
• Here, again, there was a partisan split.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
• This is not the race to offer a protest or partisan vote.
  — The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 26 May 2026
• The issue is not one that falls along neat, partisan lines.
  — Patricia Lopez, Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2025
• Hodges says this should not be a partisan issue.
  — Jamie Thompson, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
• This is not a novel or partisan idea.
  — Chicago Tribune, 15 Feb. 2026
• The level of cheek, though, is oh so partisan.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 24 Feb. 2026
• This should not be a partisan question.
  — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 28 Mar. 2026
• It was voted down along partisan lines.
  — Ghassan E. El-Eid, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2026
• On the surface, this may look partisan.
  — Brian Castrucci, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
• What has been going on here has been nothing less than a partisan witch hunt.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
• But how is drawing a map along partisan lines, how is that not just stacking the deck?
  — CBS News, 19 Apr. 2026
• Redrawing maps to gain a partisan edge doesn't sit well with him.
  — ABC News, 28 Feb. 2026
• That tells her the electorate is largely sick of partisan games.
  — Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 21 Sep. 2025
• That is not a partisan concern.
  — Dan Daley, Sun Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2026
• This is not a partisan concern.
  — Larry Pino, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Feb. 2026
• That leaves a smattering of partisan gains here and there.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2026
• And yet scorn has not broken cleanly along partisan lines.
  — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2026
• This is not a partisan complaint.
  — Allyson Meyers, Sun Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2026
• And they are drawn to efforts to bridge partisan divides.
  — Karen Brooks Harper, Dallas Morning News, 7 Feb. 2026
• The rhetoric and questions still seemed largely split along partisan lines.
  — Ximena Bustillo, NPR, 10 Feb. 2026
• But the barbs are often partisan.
  — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 12 Sep. 2025
• There are no partisan requirements to file a claim.
  — Dan Mangan, CNBC, 20 May 2026
• Epstein’s client list was not partisan.
  — Rachel O'Leary Carmona, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2026
• Some of the partisan crowd of 4,603.
  — Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2026
• Opinions about the film predictably broke along partisan lines.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 1 Feb. 2026
• This could lead to even wilder partisan swings in policy than the country now faces.
  — Susan Dudley, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2023
• Mail-in voting is not a partisan issue.
  — Adam Thompson, CBS News, 19 May 2026
• And healthy, in a human, non-partisan, truth-seeking way.
  — Gwen Faulkenberry, Arkansas Online, 22 Jan. 2026