MAJORITY in a Sentence

Learn MAJORITY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
320 example sentences for MAJORITY, such as:
1. The act was adopted by an overwhelming majority.
2. They failed to win the requisite twothirds majority.
3. A/The majority of people seem to prefer TV to radio.
4. The majority of people interviewed prefer TV to radio.
5. A majority vote enabled the passage of the resolution.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of MAJORITY
majority
 n.  the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part
 n.  the age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs
Classic Sentence: (110 in 8 pages)
1  He was a captain before he went to the front and following the Argonne battles he got his majority and the command of the divisional machine guns.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
2  As he had nothing else than his majority to come into, the event did not make a profound sensation in Barnard's Inn.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXVI
3  'Indeed I may be superstitious,' said Mrs. Micawber, 'but it appears to me that Mr. Micawber is destined never to receive any answers whatever to the great majority of the communications he writes.'
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 36. ENTHUSIASM
4  Stepan Arkadyevitch took in and read a liberal paper, not an extreme one, but one advocating the views held by the majority.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
5  His ideas of marriage were, consequently, quite unlike those of the great majority of his acquaintances, for whom getting married was one of the numerous facts of social life.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 27
6  Levin found himself, like the majority of his contemporaries, in the vaguest position in regard to religion.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 1
7  The marshal had been voted for by a considerable majority.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 30
8  Nevyedovsky had scored a higher majority, as they had planned, and he was the new marshal of the province.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 30
9  But what contributed more than all to his success was his direct, equable manner with everyone, which very quickly made the majority of the noblemen reverse the current opinion of his supposed haughtiness.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 31
10  Like all old men, and like the majority of thinkers, he slept little.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO...
11  The majority followed the quay and went through the Passy Barrier.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—A MERRY END TO MIRTH
12  This dream, like the majority of dreams, bore no relation to the situation, except by its painful and heart-rending character, but it made an impression on him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP
13  A triumph of the mediocres which is sweet to the majority.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE?
14  In the majority of cases, riot proceeds from a material fact; insurrection is always a moral phenomenon.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
15  That which predominated on the uncovered brows of the majority of those present was enthusiasm mingled with dejection.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Black majority rule in South Africa took many years to achieve.
2  The act was adopted by an overwhelming majority.
3  With such a majority, the administration was emboldened to introduce radical new policies.
4  They walked out in protest after being outvoted by the National Salvation Front majority.
5  The great majority of people seem to agree with this view.
6  All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.
7  Whatever the majority decided I was prepared to go along with.
8  Although they are the biggest single party, they don't have an outright majority.
9  The majority of students find it quite hard to live on the amount of money they get.
10  The majority of holiday flights depart and arrive on schedule.
11  This treatment is not available in the vast majority of hospitals.
12  The majority of people interviewed prefer TV to radio.
13  A/The majority of people seem to prefer TV to radio.
14  A majority vote enabled the passage of the resolution.
15  They failed to win the requisite twothirds majority.