How to Use plurality in a Sentence

plurality

noun
  • Aiken then seemed poised to pick up the plurality on the fourth vote.
    — Caroline Linton, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2023
  • This set brings a plurality of things to the bar table, nine in total.
    — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The winner would be the candidate with the most votes, which could be a small plurality.
    — Michael Smolens Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2021
  • We are heartened by the plurality of voices that have joined the movement.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Just as many now say gas prices are going down, with a one-third plurality saying prices have been staying the same.
    — Kabir Khanna, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2024
  • No runoff election will be held; Hilliard’s plurality of votes secured the seat.
    — Krista Torralva, ExpressNews.com, 3 Nov. 2020
  • But the law still commands, at best, the support of a narrow plurality of voters.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 13 Mar. 2018
  • But this month, that slipped to support by a plurality, 48% for and 33% against.
    — Dallas News, 19 Apr. 2021
  • At least, that’s how a plurality of Americans perceive the tetchy state of our union.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2025
  • After all, Hitler was elected (by a plurality, but still).
    — Cass Sunstein, Big Think, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Still, the plurality of the list was made up of tech companies, with 41 making the cut.
    — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 11 Jan. 2023
  • This time around, there is enough of a plurality to point to a pervasive change at the position, and not just among the game’s elite.
    — Elena Bergeron, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2020
  • The plurality system doesn’t always reflect the true will of the people.
    — Anna Purna Kambhampaty, Time, 6 Nov. 2019
  • This is a case in which a candidate receives a plurality of votes in the first round but not the majority of them.
    — Sarah Almukhtar, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2021
  • But for a plurality of Indiana senators, this ask was a bridge too far.
    — Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Most of the voters, the plurality in this poll, are undecided.
    — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The Republicans tried, but failed, to use the plurality rule to end the debate.
    — Thomas Balcerski, CNN, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The top two vote-getters are then announced as the winners, making the election system based on a plurality of votes.
    — Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Who is this plurality of partyless purple people?
    — Letters To The Editor, Hartford Courant, 2 June 2026
  • The plurality, some 37%, now expect a W shape, also known as a double dip.
    — Aaron Back, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Published at the beginning of June, the poll found a narrow plurality of people who felt gun laws are not strict enough.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 14 June 2023
  • In Davis, a plurality of four justices signed on to this standard and to the conclusion that the plaintiffs had not met it.
    — Palma Joy Strand, Slate Magazine, 19 Sep. 2017
  • The same plurality animates the city’s culinary life.
    — Mina Al-Oraibi, Time, 14 Apr. 2026
  • People surveyed said that crime was, by far, the biggest issue facing the city, with a plurality of 44%.
    — Wilborn P. Nobles Iii, ajc, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Strong was the first candidate in the race and won the plurality in all five of the counties that make up the north Alabama district.
    — Paul Gattis | [email protected], al, 26 May 2022
  • Later, it was cited as 23 or 24 weeks in the Casey plurality opinion.
    — Erin Spencer Sairam, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • To end the stalemate, the House decided to adopt a plurality rule, which bypassed the need for a majority.
    — Thomas Balcerski, CNN, 4 Jan. 2023
  • As ballot counting began Tuesday, a plurality of Democrats ranked Adams as their first choice in the race.
    — Time, 23 June 2021
  • When asked in a Gallup poll to name their top concern, a plurality identified government dysfunction.
    — Colin Pascal, Baltimore Sun, 15 Mar. 2026
  • In 2005 PiS took a quarter of the vote, enough for a plurality in parliament.
    — The Economist, 21 Apr. 2018

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