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Definition
a part of somethinggenerally used in the specific sense of someone who is represented by another — especially a voter represented by a politician
- The bands of color reach so high, seem at times to separate into their constituent parts.Don DeLillo -- White Noise
- Adams argued that the rule was an abomination upon the Constitutional rights of not only the members of the House, but also of their constituents.Alexs Pate -- Amistad
- He had the virtues of the masses of his constituents: he had also their vices.Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
- Everything, it seems, has slowed to its constituent elements.Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
- As patriotic cheering fills the house, he honors his constituents by standing at the edge of the box and bowing twice.Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
- On the first Tuesday of October, Swaney would have a fresh chance to let his constituents know what sort of town Clarkston was becoming.Warren St. John -- Outcasts United
- Oh, and a detail I almost forgot-he's a Social Revolutionary and was elected regional deputy to the Constituent Assembly.Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
- Then he addressed them: "And now, O priests, I take my leave of you; all the constituents of being are transitory; work out your salvation with diligence."Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
- "I see; to your domestics you are 'my lord,' the journalists style you 'monsieur,' while your constituents call you 'citizen.'Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- My every meeting, movement, my every word, will be available to all my constituents and to the world.Dave Eggers -- The Circle
- John Kwang had taught him the words so that he could properly greet the large number of Korean constituents and visitors to our Flushing office.Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
- All he had to do was buffalo his constituents into electing him.J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death
- When Alex's clerk had told her the news about the World Trade Center, her first thought had not been for her constituents'only for Josie.Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
- Ginger-nuts are so called because they contain ginger as one of their peculiar constituents, and the final flavoring one.Herman Melville -- Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street
- The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed.Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
- 'Will you do me the favour to present my compliments to the constituent body, and acquaint them with this circumstance?Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby
- I was trying to recall what it was that the local town constituents considered an evening meal.Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl -- Beautiful Creatures
- In all these cases, however, unanimity and the sanction of their constituents are requisite.Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
- Are not those independence enough for my beloved constituents?David McCullough -- John Adams
- For their very concept of the Senate, in contrast to the House, was of a body which would not be subject to constituent pressures.John F. Kennedy -- Profiles in Courage