Sample Sentences for
constituent
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constituent as in:  constituents from her district

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    Their constituents wondered what they were hiding, and their electoral doom was all but assured.  (source)
    constituents = people represented by them
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    Gabrielle Giffords, a congresswoman who had been shot in the head while meeting constituents at a shopping mall in Arizona.  (source)
    constituents = people represented by her
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    He was a good man, and I liked his politics, so when constituents called and complained, I tried to explain his positions.  (source)
    constituents = people represented by him
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    Representatives from the five zones of each of the five regions, twenty-five in all, speaking for the various moons, planets, and stations in the Garseddai system, had surrendered in the name of their constituents, and were separately on their way to Sword of Amaat to meet Anaander Mianaai, Lord of the Radch, and beg for the lives of their people.  (source)
    constituents = people represented by them
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    He had been greeting friends and constituents for Eid at his hujra, just a mile from Imam Deri where Fazlullah's headquarters had been, when the bomb went off.  (source)
    constituents = people represented by Eid
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    I watched lobbyists come and go and overheard the senator and his staff debate whether a particular bill was good for his constituents, good for his state, or good for both.  (source)
    constituents = people represented by him
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    My every meeting, movement, my every word, will be available to all my constituents and to the world.  (source)
    constituents = people (represented by me)
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    Here is where the rhetoric of modern conservatives (and I say this as one of them) fails to meet the real challenges of their biggest constituents.  (source)
    constituents = voters represented by them
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    The question, from pundits and constituents, was obvious and loud: If you aren't transparent, what are you hiding?  (source)
    constituents = people represented by them
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    Now, with 90 percent of Washington transparent, and the remaining 10 percent wilting under the suspicion of their colleagues and constituents, the question beat down on them like an angry sun: What are you hiding?  (source)
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    She stayed at CE until five, when she showed her watchers the newest Clarification, the governor of Arizona, and enjoyed the surprise transparency of the governor's entire staff—something that many officials were doing, to ensure to their constituents that deals were not being done, in darkness, outside the light of the clear leader.  (source)
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    The fourth question was preceded by a sober instruction: Imagine the White House wanted the unfiltered opinion of its constituents.  (source)
    constituents = people represented by the President
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constituent as in:  constituents of the mixture

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Each constituent of the mixture was analyzed separately.
constituent = part
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    Two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony.
    constituents = parts
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    In the seconds she took to arm the device I formed intentions, transmitted orders to constituent parts.  (source)
    constituent = component
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    The cracks grew fast, and, accompanied by thunderous crashes and sky-obscuring dust, the pyramid below them broke into its constituent blocks.  (source)
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    Its constituents are men and women and children of all ages, folks on the dodge from collection agencies, relationships gone sour, the law or the IRS, Ohio winters, the middle-class grind.  (source)
    constituents = components
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    But what we do know enables us to establish that the earliest Greek philosophers' project concerned the question of a basic constituent substance and the changes in nature.  (source)
    constituent = component
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    Then with a little start she would wake up again—wake up to the aquarium antics of the Tennis Champions, to the Super-Vox-Wurlitzeriana rendering of "Hug me till you drug me, honey," to the warm draught of verbena that came blowing through the ventilator above her head—would wake to these things, or rather to a dream of which these things, transformed and embellished by the soma in her blood, were the marvellous constituents, and smile once more her broken and discoloured smile of infantile contentment.†  (source)
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    They dissolved, as the saying goes, in laughter, they practically disappeared into their constituent elements, into atoms and molecules, a ...  (source)
    constituent = component parts
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    All he had to do was buffalo his constituents into electing him.†  (source)
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    An army, Eragon had learned, was a ravenous, insatiable beast that would soon die and separate into its constituent elements unless massive amounts of food were shoveled into its many thousands of stomachs upon a regular basis.  (source)
    constituent = component
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    You relate well to strangers and constituents.†  (source)
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    He went on to say that by accelerating two particles in opposite directions around the tube and then colliding them, scientists could shatter the particles into their constituent parts and get a glimpse of nature's most fundamental components.  (source)
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    I was trying to recall what it was that the local town constituents considered an evening meal.†  (source)
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    Everything, it seems, has slowed to its constituent elements.†  (source)
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