How to Use major party in a Sentence

major party

noun
  • The stakes for the two major parties in the midterms are high.
    — Hunter Woodall, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • These are the two major parties.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Buttigieg was the first out gay man to run for president from a major party.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2020
  • The idea is that having a judge from each major party helps keep the count fair and honest.
    — Kim Crockett, Star Tribune, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Both remain crucial to the prospects of the two major parties.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Yet politicians from both major parties largely agree on two key points.
    — Charles Koch and Brian Hooks, Twin Cities, 15 Aug. 2019
  • So do so many cradle-to-grave politicos — in both major parties.
    — Ken Fisher, USA TODAY, 13 May 2018
  • This marks a slight drop in registration for both major parties over the past four years.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2024
  • At best, third parties serve as prods to force the major parties to adjust their agenda.
    — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 30 Jan. 2018
  • The third major party of note, the PPP, is seen as a long shot.
    — Madeleine Ngo, Vox, 25 July 2018
  • There will be seven major parties for which Germans will vote.
    — Sebastian Shukla, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Leaders from both major parties condemned the stunt.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 24 Nov. 2025
  • And the responsiveness cannot be only on the part of one of the two major parties.
    — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Twelve candidates are on the ballot, six from each major party.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Both major parties have added members in the past two years, but Democrats increased their ranks faster.
    — Joshua Stewart, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 Mar. 2018
  • The first woman to have her name placed in nomination by a major party.
    — cleveland, 12 Aug. 2020
  • In 27 states, judges must be registered with a major party.
    — Thom Reilly, The Conversation, 7 Aug. 2025
  • This will be the second major party event Booker is poised to attend.
    — Paulina Dedaj, Fox News, 13 Sep. 2018
  • The foundation contracted with one firm aligned with each of the two major parties.
    — Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 15 July 2025
  • More than sixty per cent of the electorate doesn’t identify with a major party.
    — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2022
  • That rose to about three weeks during the past decade under presidents from both major parties.
    — Gabriela Aoun Angueira, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2026
  • To the eyes of the public, the two major parties seemed nearly identical.
    — Sally Rooney, The New York Review of Books, 18 Apr. 2019
  • During the past decade, that rose to about three weeks under presidents from both major parties.
    — Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • This does not shield them, however, from the meddling of major party leaders.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
  • The killing is the latest in a string of attacks that have targeted members of both major parties.
    — Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The two major parties that support the ban will contest a federal election next year.
    — Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 23 Nov. 2024
  • Anyone who has observed both major parties over the decades knows that each party has its share of fools, knaves, and outright crooks.
    — John Fund, National Review, 8 Oct. 2017
  • The moves show the kind of impact the AfD are having on the campaign and major parties.
    — Sebastian Shukla, CNN, 1 Feb. 2025
  • There is a long history of analysts predicting the demise of one of the two major parties.
    — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 4 Oct. 2017

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