How to Use subset in a Sentence

subset

noun
  • Only a small subset of the patients in the study experienced these side effects.
  • That is good news for the subset of Rangers fans/Swifties.
    Dallas News, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Not for a small subset of us, but for each of those who come after.
    Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2021
  • On Anything crews — two subsets of the 8 Trey Movin Crips street gang.
    Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The teahouse also sells tea ware and a subset of its thick menu of teas.
    David Bloom, Forbes, 16 June 2022
  • Coming soon Those of you shopping in the mid-range subset, hold tight.
    Florence Ion / Gizmodo, Quartz, 9 Mar. 2024
  • That said, a number of the software packages failed to complete a subset of the tests.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2024
  • And to the consumer point, for a true sports fan, this product only has a subset of sports.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Only this tiny, tiny subset of the photons can get out.
    Quanta Magazine, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Acral melanoma, in particular, is a subset of melanoma that grows on the palms and soles.
    Caroline C. Boyle, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2025
  • To do this, the researchers equated the gaps in the Tetris game with the subsets of the problem and the falling bricks with the numbers that have to be split up.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 28 July 2025
  • Known as Group A and Group B, each subset will get 15 minutes of practice to start.
    Michelle R. Martinelli, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2021
  • For this subset, $8 a month may not be worth it, no matter how many memes Musk posts about the cost of a cup of coffee.
    Barbara Ortutay, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2022
  • In some sense, snakes are really just a subset of lizards.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 4 June 2024
  • This process narrowed the list down to a subset of around 2,500 solution words.
    Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Jan. 2022
  • One is a change to the placement of a subset of chip interconnects.
    IEEE Spectrum, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The injunction there was just against that small subset.
    Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
  • The cases of voter fraud, Thomas added, are a small subset of the millions of votes that are cast in state elections.
    Andrew Brown, Hartford Courant, 19 Oct. 2022
  • This subset of the far-right has been quietly gaining ground for years.
    Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Erdős wanted to measure the size of those extra-large sum-free subsets.
    Leila Sloman, Wired News, 29 June 2025
  • Like suitors, there will always be a subset of investors looking to trade up to the next best thing.
    Laura Forman, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020
  • This step will help a subset of workers but does nothing to address the high cost of living.
    Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2023
  • So, for the last two or three seasons, there has been a subset of Dodger fans who called for the banishment of Kenley Jansen.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2022
  • The details unfortunately were worked out with a subset of the folks who have to sign off on it.
    Ralph D. Russo, chicagotribune.com, 22 Aug. 2021
  • Chen said at a hearing Friday that the justices could have stayed silent as to that subset of people, but didn't.
    Arkansas Online, 3 June 2025
  • What about a random subset of 60 games from May to July or something?
    Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 June 2020
  • Duhaime set out to troll that subset of fans who live in Philadelphia.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 6 Feb. 2025
  • The ruling affects a small subset of absentee and mail-in...
    Corinne Ramey and Sara Randazzo, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Any ranking of the sexiest subset of people is bound to be met with a healthy dose of skepticism.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The report examines a subset of U.S. public pensions with a June 30th fiscal year end date that report investment returns net of fees to assess plan performance by two metrics.
    Dan Doonan, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025

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