MINORITY in a Sentence

Learn MINORITY 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.
110 example sentences for MINORITY, such as:
1. Love was only a minor accompaniment.
2. You are definitely among the minority.
3. The minority is subordinate to the majority.
4. Gay men are a small but significant minority.
5. Only a minority of British households do/does not have a car.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of MINORITY
minority
 n.  any age prior to the legal age
 n.  being or relating to the smaller in number of two parts
Classic Sentence: (45 in 4 pages)
1  This is that which puts the authority into the parents hands to govern the minority of their children.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  This ends not with minority, but holds in all parts and conditions of a man's life.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  paternal power to parents for the benefit of their children during their minority, to supply their want of ability, and understanding how to manage their property.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  Paternal power is only where minority makes the child incapable to manage his property; political, where men have property in their own disposal; and despotical, over such as have no property at all.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
5  They despise the submission and subserviency of the Southern Negroes, but offer no other means by which a poor and oppressed minority can exist side by side with its masters.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In X
6  There were a few of the coloured students who felt that the Indians ought not to be admitted to Hampton, but these were in the minority.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI.
7  In that section, the Confederate sympathizers were in the minority and the hand of war fell heavily upon them, as it did on all the border states, neighbor informing against neighbor and brother killing brother.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
8  Thanks to the negro vote, the Republicans and their allies were firmly entrenched and they were riding rough-shod over the powerless but still protesting minority.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
9  The protesting minority were forgotten in the throng which abjured and came; and the audience was almost as brilliant as the show.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
10  Some, a minority, acknowledged him to be different from themselves and from everyone else, expected great things of him, listened to him, admired, and imitated him, and with them Prince Andrew was natural and pleasant.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III
11  Natasha felt that she would be left with her mother and Sonya among a minority of women who crowded near the wall, not having been invited to dance.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XVI
12  If minor errors were punished so sternly, what would be the fate of this arch rebel.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
13  Then they went in to lunch, and Mrs. Manresa bubbled up, enjoying her own capacity to surmount, without turning a hair, this minor social crisis--this laying of two more places.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
14  She seems a minor, and must therefore be at our royal disposal in marriage.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
15  Love was only a minor accompaniment.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence: (65 in 5 pages)
1  You are definitely among the minority.
2  Local authority nursery provision covers only a tiny minority of working mothers.
3  A university education shouldn't be the monopoly of the minority whose parents are rich.
4  Only a minority of British households do/does not have a car.
5  Many minority groups are struggling to maintain their cultural identity.
6  A minority administration should face little difficulty winning Liberal Democrat support for similar objectives.
7  The minority is subordinate to the majority.
8  Many minority groups throughout history have been disinherited by the majority.
9  The nation wants peace; only a minority want the war to continue.
10  Only a small minority of students is / are interested in politics these days.
11  Health authorities are encouraged to arrange for the services which ethnic minority communities need and which reflect cultural differences.
12  The rise of racism concerns Sikhs because they are such a visible minority.
13  Gay men are a small but significant minority.
14  Only a small minority of the mentally ill are liable to harm themselves or others.
15  He was accused by Speight of dismantling the rights of the indigenous majority at the expense of the Indo-Fijian minority.