How to Use two-party in a Sentence

two-party

adjective
  • Most of the country resides in red or blue states where the outcome in a two-party race is not in doubt.
    — Marianne Levine, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The stricter two-party state law prevails, Goldstein said.
    — Gina Lee Castro, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The law is not clear if a person in a one-party state wants to record a call with a person in a two-party state.
    — Tom Kertscher, jsonline.com, 15 July 2026
  • Still, this may be an election where some of the certainties of the two-party system are rewritten.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
  • Like Brana, West has championed a break from the two-party system.
    — Char Adams, NBC News, 5 June 2023
  • The principle of one man, one vote brought the two-party system to Florida.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 11 May 2026
  • Our two-party system gives us alternatives that nobody wants.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 31 May 2024
  • Joe Biden struggled to put a complete sentence together, and that is the flaw of our two-party system.
    — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 3 June 2026
  • But this is also the man who discovered, lurking within the rot of the two-party system, a strange new shape in the electorate.
    — Willy Staley, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • With a few brief exceptions, the United States has had a two-party system ever since.
    — Christopher Devine, The Conversation, 10 July 2023
  • While our political system may employ a two-party system, all of us are a mixture of ideas and beliefs.
    — Katherine Schulten, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
  • In our two-party system, when one party drives itself into a ditch, the other swerves into the opposite one.
    — George Will, Twin Cities, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The two-party system in America right now is Traitors versus Losers.
    — Garry Kasparov, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The two-party system puts political ideology on a two-way street.
    — Chicago Tribune, 2 July 2025
  • Why does the United States have a two-party political system?
    — Christopher Devine, The Conversation, 10 July 2023
  • Our two-party political system puts us on a mental track of seeing things in black and white, as part of an either/or paradigm.
    — Teresa Hopke, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Now, the environment of two-party stability is changing even more.
    — Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Adapting these lessons to the United States’ two-party system is hard, but not impossible.
    — Rachel Kleinfeld, Foreign Affairs, 19 July 2024
  • States like Illinois, California and nine other states have a two-party consent law.
    — Gina Lee Castro, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Experts say one of the main drivers in independent voters is a growing discontent with the two-party system.
    — Julia Manchester, The Hill, 24 Sep. 2025
  • In any event, many political observers believe that still won’t change the usual two-party domination.
    — Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Ultimately, the two-party system is one of the United States’ great shock absorbers for social change.
    — Robert A. Pape, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Viable or not, Musk’s alternative disrupts the two-party system.
    — Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 16 July 2025
  • The two-party system still dominates in the ballot box, as most voters still consistently vote for candidates from one party.
    — Jocelyn Shek, NBC news, 25 June 2025
  • The communists were toppled, and the country has since developed a reasonably stable two-party system.
    — Tuvshinzaya Gantulga, Foreign Affairs, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Kennedy’s campaign resonates with a diverse coalition of voters disillusioned by the current two-party system.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Merz taking the position would likely return the country to a more stable two-party government, which has run Germany for most of the past three decades.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 24 Feb. 2025
  • This result comes much closer to the 53% of the two-party vote that Republicans won in 2020.
    — Benjamin Schneer, Time, 14 Aug. 2025
  • This entitlement on the part of Democrats and Republicans is part of what has been long broken in this country’s two-party system.
    — WSJ, 16 Nov. 2023
  • That's a clear sign that America’s two-party system is alive and well, even if some say voters don't like the polarization that results from that dynamic.
    — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 11 Mar. 2024

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