How to Use coalition in a Sentence

coalition

noun
  • The groups united to form a coalition.
  • A multiparty coalition ruled the country.
  • The group is working in coalition with other environmental groups.
  • And there will not be a formal coalition.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
  • There are still forces in his coalition who are pressing for it.
    — Time Staff, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Is Bucharest’s left-right coalition a sign of things to come?
    — TheWeek, 8 May 2026
  • Is the far-right in its rainbow coalition era?
    — Brittany Luse, NPR, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Plus, is Bucharest’s left-right coalition a sign of things to come?
    — TheWeek, 8 May 2026
  • Tri-Rail is a member of the coalition.
    — Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Nepal has seen over a dozen coalition governments in the past two decades.
    — Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Now a coalition of the unwilling has firmed up.
    — Paul Elie, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
  • One of the issues brought up by the coalition had to do with the lack of data.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The coalition has pushed for this for the past several years.
    — Wcco Staff, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • But these groups were very much junior partners in that coalition.
    — Damon Linker, The Week, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Other states may join the coalition in the near future.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Our coalition partners lost a lot of their -- their soldiers.
    — CBS News, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Any product that fails that process, the coalition says, should not get a second chance.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2026
  • These are younger cohorts building long-term coalitions.
    — Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The coalition will unite and be unstoppable.
    — Callum Sutherland, Time, 18 May 2026
  • The coalition of hotels involved in talks with the union welcomed the deal.
    — John Antczak, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The success of this new coalition is by no means guaranteed.
    — Walter Russell Mead, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The party is the country's largest and is part of the ruling coalition.
    — Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Neo-Nazis and skinheads threatened the goals of this coalition.
    — TIME, 7 May 2024
  • On these issues, the work to build a diverse coalition isn’t glamorous.
    — Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 9 June 2026
  • There was a very, very slight lift for his party in the beginning, but not for his coalition.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Rutte may turn to the right wing for coalition partners more in sync with his new stance on migration.
    — Time, 10 July 2023
  • The coalition that drew up the proposal is not required by law to come up with a way to pay for it.
    — Blake Apgar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Aug. 2023
  • His voting coalition is fraying, too.
    — Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The alternative is a coalition made up of of the worst people on earth.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 23 May 2022
  • The anti-Iran coalition is larger yet.
    — Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2026

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