How to Use republican in a Sentence

republican

1 of 2 noun
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  • What does this tell you about what's going on with the republicans?
    — Fox News, 19 May 2018
  • Three republicans joined with 19 Democrats on the measure.
    — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 30 May 2018
  • But even though the amendment has some staunch supporters in the form of Tennessee republicans, don't be too alarmed.
    — Diana Pearl, Marie Claire, 12 Sep. 2014
  • That means republicans now believe the next four years are prime time to purchase or sell a home, while democrats are likely to sit the real estate game out.
    — Kelsey Kloss, ELLE Decor, 9 Dec. 2016
  • So republicans and democrats alike are really afraid of this.
    — Fox News, 31 July 2018
  • The Argument To republicans, the queen is the ultimate symbol of an outmoded class system and out of place in the modern world.
    — Washington Post, 6 June 2019
  • After the republicans took over Congress in 1995, Coulter and her cohorts became the darlings of the very media that had ignored or mocked the far right for years.
    — Elinor Burkett, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Feb. 2017
  • In this sense, the future king presents both a worry and an opportunity for republicans.
    — NBC News, 17 May 2018
  • For decades, a debate has raged in Britain, pitting republicans, who wish to do away with the royal family, against monarchists and others who support them.
    — NBC News, 9 Jan. 2020
  • The Crown has a way of turning republicans into royalists.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 21 Nov. 2019
  • One of their chief concerns, apparently, is that republicans may try to use the interval between the death of the old monarch and the coronation of the new one to whip up anti-royal sentiment.
    — Zoë Heller, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
  • One important pro-monarchy argument republicans reject is that the queen attracts a fortune to the country through tourism and trade.
    — NBC News, 17 May 2018
  • This would be possible under the terms of the Good Friday agreement that brought an end to decades of fighting in Northern Ireland between armed factions of republicans and unionists.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Oct. 2019
  • But that deposition was interrupted by a group of House republicans who stormed the secure room to object to it being held behind closed doors.
    — NBC News, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Dissident republicans would rather kill Martin Ferris than talk to him.
    — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The most hardline Irish republicans would ultimately like to see Northern Ireland reunited with the rest of Ireland.
    — Luke McGee, CNN, 3 Aug. 2019
  • Republicans presented their efforts to overhaul the Affordable Care Act, which flopped this week, as a necessary response to a failing law.
    — The Economist, 20 July 2017
  • Keeping women pregnant keeps them vulnerable, and that keeps men in charge, which appeals to the many, many republicans who feel that masculinity is under threat right now.
    — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Apr. 2019
  • In the Duke and Duchess’s wake, Australian republicans will certainly be hastily waving them off, while trying not to admit that really, their movement is drowning.
    — Juliet Rieden, Town & Country, 1 Nov. 2018
  • There are fears, too, about the return of armed guards and checkpoints, a resurgence of smuggling and other types of lawlessness, and a renewal of violence from dissident Irish republicans bound to chafe at signs of British control at the crossings.
    — Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2017
  • Green republicans have an unshakable conviction that the endless search for economic growth set in motion by the advent of mass consumerism is at the very root of our ecological crisis.
    — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Democrats and moderate republicans are currently using this same tactic to push a vote on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
    — Makena Kelly, The Verge, 8 June 2018
  • Measured by the number of attacks on parliamentarians, rather than by their severity, the suffragettes were more active even than Irish republicans.
    — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Under the 1998 Good Friday agreement, which brought peace to the region, Northern Ireland is governed by a power-sharing arrangement intended to unite republicans and unionists.
    — Suyin Haynes, Time, 25 July 2019
  • Likewise in Northern Ireland, neither unionists nor republicans can abide the prime minister’s Brexit plans.
    — The Economist, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Dissident republicans hate him, and the feeling is mostly mutual.
    — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Under the terms of the deal, both sides of the political divide — the predominantly Protestant unionists and the mainly Catholic nationalists republicans — hold equal positions in power.
    — Time, Time, 26 June 2017
  • Republicans raise our debt and outspend Democrats republicans mismanage our economy so the middle class suffers.
    — Marwa Eltagouri, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Hopefully the organization includes protecting journalists from white male republicans who don’t like being asked questions.
    — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 8 June 2017
  • Liberal republicans disapproved, but Lord Palmerston, the British foreign secretary, sent his congratulations.
    — Allan Massie, WSJ, 29 May 2018
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republican

2 of 2 adjective
  • Now the sketch comedy series has the rest of the Republican party in its crosshairs as well.
    — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 5 Mar. 2017
  • John Krenik, st paul republican chair, has petitioned Jeff Sessions to have the Feds to review.
    — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 25 Mar. 2017
  • On the converse, the failure of republican government is also a triumph of sorts of democracy.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Minka Kelly also shared her story, posting a collage of the 25 republican men who voted to pass the bill in Alabama.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 May 2019
  • When a republican party wins the general election, the monarchy is dismantled and the royal family is sent to a housing estate to live like all the other Brits.
    — Angela Haupt, chicagotribune.com, 14 Dec. 2017
  • For decades, Texas has been controlled by a power-clutching Republican party steadily sliding towards the fringe.
    — Dan Solomon, GQ, 18 Aug. 2017
  • In 1793, the first republican constitution in France was adopted.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2018
  • The decline of our small-r republican institutions can be stopped only if the party brandishing that adjective starts living up to the obligations its name honors.
    — Author: E.j. Dionne Jr., Alaska Dispatch News, 26 July 2017
  • Sir, the inherent principle of the white majority of this nation is to refuse forever republican equality to the black minority.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 6 Mar. 2018
  • And so did the viability of the Revolution’s political experiment and the Founders’ republican vision.
    — Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 18 July 2019
  • The invocation for the county Republican party’s monthly meeting on Monday largely focused on Charlottesville, and there was an intercession for healing, comfort and forgiveness.
    — Joshua Stewart, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Aug. 2017
  • After many months of hard-fought negotiations, the biggest unionist and republican parties agreed on January 10th to go back into government together, creating a new element of hope in the often unforgiving politics of Belfast.
    — The Economist, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Civic republican theory, by contrast, defines freedom in terms of self-government, which involves full citizen participation in the affairs of the community and the ongoing process of determining the community’s collective destiny.
    — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Within the context of civic-republican thought, Bobby’s apparently disparate political stands become perfectly sensible and coherent.
    — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 25 May 2018
  • Government instability on a massive scale, with norms of constitutional democracy and republican government being violated on a daily basis.
    — Joanne B. Freeman, The Denver Post, 15 June 2017
  • Now the sketch comedy series has the rest of the Republican party in its crosshairs as well.
    — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 5 Mar. 2017
  • John Krenik, st paul republican chair, has petitioned Jeff Sessions to have the Feds to review.
    — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 25 Mar. 2017
  • On the converse, the failure of republican government is also a triumph of sorts of democracy.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Minka Kelly also shared her story, posting a collage of the 25 republican men who voted to pass the bill in Alabama.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 May 2019
  • When a republican party wins the general election, the monarchy is dismantled and the royal family is sent to a housing estate to live like all the other Brits.
    — Angela Haupt, chicagotribune.com, 14 Dec. 2017
  • For decades, Texas has been controlled by a power-clutching Republican party steadily sliding towards the fringe.
    — Dan Solomon, GQ, 18 Aug. 2017
  • In 1793, the first republican constitution in France was adopted.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2018
  • The decline of our small-r republican institutions can be stopped only if the party brandishing that adjective starts living up to the obligations its name honors.
    — Author: E.j. Dionne Jr., Alaska Dispatch News, 26 July 2017
  • Sir, the inherent principle of the white majority of this nation is to refuse forever republican equality to the black minority.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 6 Mar. 2018
  • And so did the viability of the Revolution’s political experiment and the Founders’ republican vision.
    — Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 18 July 2019
  • The invocation for the county Republican party’s monthly meeting on Monday largely focused on Charlottesville, and there was an intercession for healing, comfort and forgiveness.
    — Joshua Stewart, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Aug. 2017
  • After many months of hard-fought negotiations, the biggest unionist and republican parties agreed on January 10th to go back into government together, creating a new element of hope in the often unforgiving politics of Belfast.
    — The Economist, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Civic republican theory, by contrast, defines freedom in terms of self-government, which involves full citizen participation in the affairs of the community and the ongoing process of determining the community’s collective destiny.
    — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Within the context of civic-republican thought, Bobby’s apparently disparate political stands become perfectly sensible and coherent.
    — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 25 May 2018
  • Government instability on a massive scale, with norms of constitutional democracy and republican government being violated on a daily basis.
    — Joanne B. Freeman, The Denver Post, 15 June 2017

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