be a constituent
Example Sentences
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Beth Ehrbar, a Berea resident who works at the university and used to be a constituent of Kasich’s during his time as a Columbus-area Congressman, declared herself “very excited!”
From The Guardian ● Mar. 15, 2016
Standard & Poor’s said yesterday that Sino-Forest no longer qualifies to be a constituent of the benchmark S&P/TSX Composite Index.
From BusinessWeek ● Aug. 31, 2011
Linda chats with Mike, figuring he must be a constituent.
From Time Magazine Archive
The impromptu flavor is not missing, and there is allied to delicacy of design a strangeness of sentiment—that strangeness which Edgar Poe declared should be a constituent element of all great art.
From Chopin : the Man and His Music by James Huneker
The fact that in certain primitive systems of philosophy the breath was supposed to have something to do with the heart suggests that these beliefs may be a constituent element of the ancient heart-theory.
From The Evolution of the Dragon by G. Elliot Smith
