How to Use partisan in a Sentence

partisan

1 of 2 adjective

• Still, the specter of partisan bias shadowed the project.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• The 2014 game was in Anaheim in front of a partisan Aztecs crowd.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2024
• It is not supposed to be a partisan event calling for the destruction of the Jewish state.
  — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Nov. 2023
• This could lead to even wilder partisan swings in policy than the country now faces.
  — Susan Dudley, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2023
• What has been going on here has been nothing less than a partisan witch hunt.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
• But the last Republican to win statewide office in the Old Line State is looking to buck partisan forces again.
  — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 28 Mar. 2024
• There is no doubt which player will hear more partisan support in Ashe.
  — Howard Fendrich, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
• Counting Critics For now, the AI talks have largely remained above the partisan fray.
  — Matt Laslo, WIRED, 26 June 2023
• There’s been a similar partisan split on the issue of zero-cash bail.
  — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• Descriptors of the events of Jan. 6 have also shifted over the years and are as partisan today as ever.
  — Anthony Salvanto, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2024
• So that's a very dangerous precedent, to say that a partisan court can just take somebody off the ballot.
  — ABC News, 24 Dec. 2023
• The commission’s work had devolved into a partisan mess, the very thing it had been created to avoid.
  — Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 18 Jan. 2024
• The move quickly touched off a raucous, partisan debate.
  — Tony Romm, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
• Trust in the Supreme Court is near an all-time low, yet another sign of our hyper partisan politics.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 24 Mar. 2024
• And contrary to the table-pounding from the partisan peanut gallery, all choices have consequences.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 22 Jan. 2024
• The caveat here is that the last election map isn’t a perfect guide to the next election map, since parties change, candidates change, and the partisan character of states change.
  — Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2023
• That’s especially so when, as is the case with the Bud Light and Target campaigns, the context is overtly partisan.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
• And Jain and his colleagues can’t control how their numbers might get swept up in partisan narratives.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 13 June 2023
• Many conservatives see these 14th Amendment challenges as the latest in a long line of attacks hurled at Trump as part of a partisan witch hunt.
  — Monica Potts, ABC News, 4 Jan. 2024
• Her smooth path stands in contrast to the partisan fights that have erupted over some other circuit court nominees.
  — Joseph Morton, Dallas News, 8 June 2023
• As Congress became more and more partisan, the diminutive Kohl almost seemed to be a throwback to another era.
  — Todd Richmond, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2023
• Legal experts expect to see a patchwork of policies that fall along partisan lines.
  — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
• Ukraine may have bled out of the headlines in the U.S., apart from coverage of the recent farcical-tragic partisan fight over foreign aid for Ukraine in Congress.
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2024
• Instead, many view schooling as part of a partisan and culture war that consumes so much of our public discourse.
  — Adam M. Carrington, National Review, 17 Dec. 2023
• Tusk seems to understand the need to show Law and Justice supporters — and outside allies — that his reforms are not partisan purges.
  — Kate Brady, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
• The roughly 80-minute hearing came after Mayes made a trek to the Capitol, holding a press conference to dismiss the committee as a partisan stunt.
  — Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2024
• The media attention trained on her friends and family in the lead-up to the testimony—and the partisan cast of the event—had strained some of her relationships, and cost her some others.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2024
• Some of the states that pursued ambitious partisan agendas had long been single-party strongholds.
  — Mitch Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2023
• Biden’s eagerness to criticize Trump and the former president’s steady stream of responses made for one of the more partisan State of the Union’s in memory.
  — Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2024
• The Supreme Court in 2019 said the doors of federal courts were closed to claims of partisan gerrymandering, the practice of drawing voting lines to entrench the party in power.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 11 Oct. 2023

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partisan

2 of 2 noun

• She’s put this thing on for her partisans in the Beyhive.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023
• 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
• 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
• To love sports is, on some level, to be a partisan of everyday life.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2020
• One of the GOP's longest-serving leaders, Dole could be a partisan.
  — David Gergen, CNN, 6 Dec. 2021
• 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
• After the war began, her father let partisans use the family farm as a hide-out.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2023
• As a partisan of value investing, I’m drawn to cheap stocks.
  — John Dorfman, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• Still, DeSantis is taking care not to seem like a naked partisan.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 28 Sep. 2022
• His partisans, who are legion, would celebrate him for the same reason.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• 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
• Of course, partisans see things differently on the issue front.
  — Dana Blanton, Fox News, 14 Feb. 2024
• Each was a solid governor, and neither was a crude partisan.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 July 2023
• 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
• The plan was built on the four indictments and sundry civil suits, all brought by Democratic partisans (led by the Biden Justice Department).
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 16 Jan. 2024
• So micro-events like the Hamas attack of 7 October, no matter how bloody, don't change the overall picture that partisans of each side hold.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 31 Oct. 2023
• Clearly Robb, a management partisan who helped Ronald Reagan break the air traffic controllers’ union, had to go.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 7 Jan. 2022
• 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
• The electoral court was controlled by corrupt partisans.
  — Marina Dias, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
• And the key institutions of the system now seem to serve increasingly as venues for vicious partisan ...
  — Yuval Levin, National Review, 16 Sep. 2022
• In Het behouden huis the unnamed narrator, a partisan, has been fighting the Germans for four years, twice escaping from prison camps.
  — Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 31 Mar. 2021
• Tanden is known as a strong partisan on social media, and has fired off abrasive tweets at Republicans and progressives on the left alike.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2021
• Kyiv described it as an uprising against the Kremlin by Russian partisans.
  — Susie Blann and Joanna Kozlowska, Anchorage Daily News, 24 May 2023
• Although political partisans are divided in their views of the court’s work, the poll results do not show a clear split based on the race or ethnicity of the respondents.
  — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• Posts are then shared and promoted by partisans or others just seeking clicks and followers.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Oct. 2023
• The film confronts the partisans of change and the chronic skeptics, delivering a choral of unresolved contradictions on what the future should be.
  — Dora Leu, Variety, 13 Aug. 2023
• Specifically, on Israel, each set of partisans think their candidate would back Israel the right amount.
  — Anthony Salvanto, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2023
• One of Fedir’s brothers in the partisans had learned that their village and two others were targeted for extermination.
  — Sergii Mukaieliants, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
• One depressing sign of the political times is that partisans on the left and right are willing to trash political norms and institutions to get their way.
  — The Editorial Board, wsj.com, 9 Apr. 2023
• In the past, the Ukrainians have used drones, special operators working behind enemy lines, and a vast network of partisans loyal to Kyiv to wage war on the occupiers.
  — Marc Santora, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 9 May 2024