How to Use major party in a Sentence

major party

noun

• Both remain crucial to the prospects of the two major parties.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This does not shield them, however, from the meddling of major party leaders.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
• Oz is believed to be the first Muslim nominee for Senate from a major party.
  — Liam Stack, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2022
• On the campaign trail, Biden proposed the most aggressive plan of any major party nominee to try to slow that warming.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Nov. 2020
• The number of House members who are not facing an opponent from the other major party.
  — Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2022
• January 6 showed how fragile that democracy is, and the year since has confirmed that at least one major party will not be a partner in the fight to defend it.
  — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 5 Jan. 2022
• One hundred years after some women gained the right to vote, Kamala Harris emerged as the first woman of Black and Asian descent to run on a major party ticket.
  — Khalilah L. Brown-Dean, Star Tribune, 16 Nov. 2020
• Of the 13 Black women who ran for Senate last year, only one became a major party’s nominee.
  — Mabinty Quarshie, USA TODAY, 10 June 2021
• But with a third major party in the mix, nobody could declare outright victory.
  — Riazat Butt and Munir Ahmed The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 10 Feb. 2024
• The New York representative will be the first Black lawmaker to lead a major party in Congress.
  — Caren Bohan, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2022
• Notables: The first Black woman to run for governor as part of a major party in state history.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2021
• The magnet holds each and every cap, which also prevents you from getting your caps all over the floor after every open — a major party foul in itself.
  — Tim Kohut, BGR, 24 June 2021
• Adduci said the founders know that campaign fundraising will be a big challenge without major party support.
  — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 29 Mar. 2022
• Castillo said that the large number of parties reflects the presence of many satellite parties that orbit around major parties.
  — Soudi Jiménez, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
• See, Trump was the first major party nominee -- and first president -- not to release ANY of his tax returns while running for or while in office.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 18 May 2021
• Ryan sought to emphasize that there's an advantage to running without a lot of major party support.
  — CBS News, 11 Oct. 2022
• In 2012, Mitt Romney made history, becoming the first Latter-day Saint to win the presidential nod of a major party.
  — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Dec. 2020
• Several members are also excited that Mr. Jeffries would be the first Black man to lead a major party in Congress.
  — Jimmy Vielkind and Natalie Andrews, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
• The dangerous forces unleashed over the past five years are still dominant in one major party and are increasingly potent in the other.
  — Garry Kasparov, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2021
• The question is present on both sides of the presidential campaign, since Trump, who turns 78 in June, would be the second-oldest man ever to win a major party’s nomination.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2024
• On the Democratic side, Whaley became the first woman in state history to receive a major party’s backing.
  — Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2022
• The only woman to be a major party nominee for president, Hillary Clinton, had served in the Senate, but not as governor.
  — Catherine Lucey, WSJ, 26 Nov. 2022
• She is believed to be the first Black female nominee for governor from a major party in Alabama.
  — Sarah Swetlik | [e-mail], al, 21 June 2022
• That's unheard of for a major party candidate in Indiana.
  — Kaitlin Lange, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Nov. 2021
• Unions this week drew the attention of both major parties' presidential front-runners.
  — Lalee Ibssa, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024