How to Use unionist in a Sentence

unionist

noun
  • She was not seen as just a teacher or public sector unionist.
    — Rick Pearson, chicagotribune.com, 8 July 2019
  • Yet the government’s reliance on unionist votes makes this tail hard to ignore.
    — The Economist, 16 June 2018
  • Northern Irish unionists are anxious, too, and for good reason.
    — Jeremy Shapiro, Foreign Affairs, 27 Mar. 2020
  • More powers for Scotland are inevitable, all the unionist parties agree.
    — Miranda Green, Newsweek, 17 July 2014
  • The unionist areas have been funded a lot more, of course, because the state was built for that community.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2024
  • Some of that uneasiness may reflect the importance of the monarchy to the unionists.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • For the party’s low-income earners and trade unionists, this was a bitter betrayal.
    — Sumi Somaskanda, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Sturgeon lived in Dreghorn, a village on the edge of Irvine with unionist tendencies.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
  • Today Labor Day is no longer about trade unionists marching down the street with banners and their tools of trade.
    — Jay L. Zagorsky, Smithsonian, 1 Sep. 2017
  • To some of the agreement’s unionist critics, this was a dangerous concession.
    — Daniel Finn, Foreign Affairs, 21 Aug. 2019
  • More eye-popping than the amount was the list of 20 rich men who ponied up—which included three of the fiercest Unionists in the land.
    — T.a. Frail, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • Protestant unionists were the first to form paramilitaries in response to the passage of Home Rule.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 5 July 2019
  • Many of the limited jobs left for locals are tough and dangerous, says Athit Kong, a trade unionist.
    — Julie Zaugg, CNN, 4 Oct. 2019
  • The Democratic Unionists have agreed to support the Tories on key votes.
    — Jill Lawless, The Seattle Times, 28 June 2017
  • If Catalan separatists don’t form a government, will the unionists?
    — Jeannette Neumann, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2017
  • There was no public transportation in the capital as workers walked off the job and unionists threatened to call more strikes in the coming weeks.
    — Niki Kitsantonis, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2018
  • But the dispute is part of a broader political backdrop that worries the unionist party.
    — Morwenna Coniam, Bloomberg.com, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Would a diehard Brexiteer prime minister risk yet another election, in a bid to win enough seats to ditch the unionists?
    — The Economist, 16 June 2018
  • In the talks the two parties resolved a thorny dispute about the promotion of the Irish language, opposed by unionists.
    — The Economist, 10 Jan. 2020
  • At a rally in Paris this spring Mr Faure, jeered by unionists, had to be escorted to safety.
    — The Economist, 21 June 2018
  • One gathering became a face-off against a sea of British unionists, who were amassing in a public square in Glasgow.
    — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2024
  • The demonstration was banned after unionists announced plans for a rival march, but the organizers resolved to go ahead with it.
    — Megan Specia Andrew Testa, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023
  • For all the symbolism, the victory was as much about disarray in the unionist movement as the rise of the nationalists.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 6 May 2022
  • Biden has faced mistrust from pro-British unionists because of his Irish American heritage.
    — Colleen Long, Darlene Superville, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Even the staunchest of unionists acknowledge that Brexit has changed the overall dynamic.
    — Daniel Finn, Foreign Affairs, 21 Aug. 2019
  • The crowd, which proved to be a mix of young and old, students, unionists, activists and cultural figures, came from across the region and across Europe.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The trade unionist Luca Visentini was arrested in Brussels late last year and went on leave.
    — Sarah Hurtes, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Her mother was a theatre director and actor; her father was a trade unionist and a founder of Germany’s Green party.
    — Alex Barasch, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Twenty years ago, professors, tech workers, scientists, authors, and unionists might not have seen themselves as having much in common.
    — Alissa Quart january 2, Literary Hub, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Tinovimbanashe Gwenyaya, a former trade unionist in South Africa, has also seen the power of Twitter first hand.
    — Rebecca Chowdhury, Time, 29 Apr. 2022

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