Wondering how to use Gerrymander in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as cheat or cheating.
Gerrymander in a sentence
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Gerrymander meaning
- To divide a geographic area into voting districts in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election.
- To draw dividing lines for other types of districts in an unintuitive way to favor a particular group or for other perceived gain.
- To change the franchise or voting system in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election.
Using Gerrymander
- The main meaning on this page is: To divide a geographic area into voting districts in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election. | To draw dividing lines for other types of districts in an unintuitive way to favor a particular group or for other perceived gain. | To change the franchise or voting system in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election.
- Useful related words include: cheat, cheating, separate, divide.
- In the example corpus, gerrymander often appears in combinations such as: to gerrymander, the gerrymander, gerrymander the.
Context around Gerrymander
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 8 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gerrymander
- In this selection, "gerrymander" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, racial, political, parties, across, judecollins and congressional stand out and add context to how "gerrymander" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a partisan gerrymander violates the and a political gerrymander by state. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gerrymander" sits close to words such as aarons, abra and accelerations, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gerrymander
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The original Gerrymander, circa 1812. (5 words)
Colm Gildernew on the history of gerrymander judecollins. (8 words)
Who tried to gerrymander the constituencies to benefit them? (9 words)
Wilichowski and Porter both said this can be used to gerrymander, since large prisons tend to be in rural areas while the people who fill those prisons tend to come from more urban areas. (34 words)
While both parties gerrymander across the country, the redistricting process Wisconsin Republicans undertook in 2011 and 2012 was “very shocking” in terms of the huge partisan advantage it gave them, Weichelt said. (32 words)
Federalist newspaper editors and others at the time likened the district shape to a salamander, and the word gerrymander was a blend of that word and Governor Gerry's last name. (31 words)
Who tried to gerrymander the constituencies to benefit them? (9 words)
Example sentences (20)
The first was rejected as a racial gerrymander by federal courts, while the second was rejected as a political gerrymander by state courts.
In addition, the maps contain an obvious and surprising violation that appears to have no connection to the gerrymander.
While both parties gerrymander across the country, the redistricting process Wisconsin Republicans undertook in 2011 and 2012 was “very shocking” in terms of the huge partisan advantage it gave them, Weichelt said.
Who tried to gerrymander the constituencies to benefit them?
Warf argued that even considering the racial gerrymander, “the premise of constitutionality” must apply when considering the amendments in question.
Colm Gildernew on the history of gerrymander judecollins.
They gerrymander because changing demographics are making them irrelevant — because they're running out of scared old white people.
They’re willing to gerrymander and disenfranchise voters — they absolutely don’t want people to go out and vote.
Wilichowski and Porter both said this can be used to gerrymander, since large prisons tend to be in rural areas while the people who fill those prisons tend to come from more urban areas.
In fact, both Democrats and Republicans spend millions of dollars on research and lawyers, hoping to find the most effective way to gerrymander in their favor.
I supported a previous case, Stephenson v. Bartlett, in which plaintiffs successfully struck down an egregious gerrymander of North Carolina’s legislative districts.
States gerrymander congressional districts, ensuring one-party rule, upheld by a U.S. Supreme Court whose conservative majority includes two judges accused of sexual misconduct.
The original Gerrymander, circa 1812.
This is not an attempt to gerrymander for Democrats.
To be sure both sides gerrymander for their own ends as these cases show, but Republicans have been able to do it better and more in recent years.
After Losing PA Gerrymander Battle, GOP Rep. Costello Won’t Seek ReelectionCostello had called for the impeachment of Pennsylvania Supreme Court judges, but he’s decided to quit Congress instead.
At that argument, a majority of the Court appeared ready to declare — for the first time — that a partisan gerrymander violates the Constitution.
However, an analysis conducted through did not conclude that Democrats' proposed maps would create a gerrymander the opposite way.
As a result of the gerrymander, O's seats have cost it more votes than G's seats.
Federalist newspaper editors and others at the time likened the district shape to a salamander, and the word gerrymander was a blend of that word and Governor Gerry's last name.
Common combinations with gerrymander
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to gerrymander 5×
- the gerrymander 3×
- gerrymander the 3×
- gerrymander for 3×
- word gerrymander 3×
- racial gerrymander 2×
- gerrymander by 2×
- political gerrymander 2×
- original gerrymander 2×
- gerrymander was 2×