Example sentences for: majorities

How can you use “majorities” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • (Oregon voters have approved the suicide measure twice, with majorities of 51 percent and 60 percent.)

  • Results that don't fit the theory, such as the defeat of Matt Fong in the California Senate race, have simply been ignored--as has the fact that the Republicans retained their majorities in both houses.

  • I am still concerned about the risk of setting a precedent for opposition majorities in Congress to remove presidents for purely political reasons.

  • Though Saddam Hussein was widely detested, many Saudis are sympathetic to the anti-U.S. insurgents in Iraq, although majorities also condemn jihadist attacks in the Kingdom.

  • You point out quite correctly that at the very top levels the resentment is very muted and hardly visible (see the huge majorities of students in elite colleges who say diversity is a good thing and we should have more, in the Bowen and Bok book, The Shape of the River ).


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