How to Use demographic in a Sentence

demographic

1 of 2 noun
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  • The town's demographics suggest that the restaurant will do well there.
  • The newspaper will be making some changes in order to adapt to the region's shifting demographics.
  • The demographics of the disease are changing, and we are seeing much younger people being affected by it.
  • One of the biggest changes has been the demographics of her shows.
    — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2018
  • Those sales point to the changing demographic of the area.
    — Hannah Selinger, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The unemployed in this demographic spent about the same amount of time on the work.
    — Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ, 21 May 2021
  • But over time, the city and its demographics have changed.
    — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 19 July 2018
  • The demographics of the cities also played a role in the decision.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 28 Oct. 2017
  • The race to keep up with the needs of this demographic is reflected across the country.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2021
  • The target of the film is very clear and its demographic is not always well catered for.
    — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 10 Feb. 2022
  • To name a few reasons: Africa is home to the youngest demographic in the world.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The term is borrowed from the study of demographics, where it is used to describe birthrates.
    — Max Fisher, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2020
  • This is the eighth straight year in which at least one team has been led by a quarterback in that demographic.
    — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2021
  • Those percents roughly match the demographics of the state.
    — Erin Allday, SFChronicle.com, 8 Apr. 2020
  • So if that tends to attract maybe a younger demographic, perhaps that is the case.
    — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 2022
  • The warmth of these shows has also brought in a new demographic: children.
    — Whitney Friedlander, Variety, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Every other age group trusts fintechs more, and the younger the demographic the wider the trust gap.
    — Hossein Rahnama, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
  • But as gamer demographics shift, some are working to change that from the inside.
    — Laura Parker, The Seattle Times, 21 July 2017
  • The senior demographic is a wonderful group who are at the later stages of life.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2021
  • Speak to your demographic, be real, find your sweet spot and stick with it.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The decline reflects a shift in demographics in the city as well as policy changes.
    — Jill Tucker, SFChronicle.com, 27 Feb. 2020
  • The other reason is the demographics the two game shows attract.
    — cleveland, 10 Mar. 2020
  • That doesn’t mean people in this demographic don’t have the skills, or will, to run.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 29 Nov. 2021
  • But more than any other demographic, women bore the brunt of the losses.
    — Samantha Laine Perfas, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 June 2021
  • This growth changed the parish demographics, but not the advance of industry.
    — Joan Meiners, ProPublica, 3 Nov. 2019
  • The demographic is so special and so widespread, as far as people from all walks of life.
    — Lisa Kocay, Forbes, 13 May 2022
  • Granted, the target demographic was far more likely to be in a car seat than behind the wheel.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 11 Oct. 2020
  • People feel like me and Robert White have the same demographic.
    — Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2022
  • And now that the demographics of migrants are changing, the job has become that much harder.
    — Max Rivlin-Nadler, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The same report said that the fastest-growing racial demographic of adults who live with their parents is white.
    — Ginny Hogan, The Atlantic, 15 Nov. 2021
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demographic

2 of 2 adjective
  • The demographic information shows that the population increased but the average income went down.
  • Democrats want to change the demographic makeup of the courts.
    — Beatrice Peterson, ABC News, 17 Feb. 2023
  • What are your thoughts on the influx of this new demographic?
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 26 July 2019
  • This is still every bit the savvy act of demographic outreach the old records were.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2021
  • And huge demographic change has taken place across the area.
    — Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • And demographic trends suggest there will be a greater share of caregivers in the workplace in the years to come.
    — Rhett Buttle, Fortune, 16 June 2020
  • That brings the pace of Democratic gains down to the slow crawl of demographic change.
    — Nate Cohn, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2016
  • Yet, the amount of the decline differs across demographic groups.
    — Adam Fine, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2020
  • The proportions of students in each demographic were about the same for the coming year as last year.
    — James Vaznis, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2023
  • Over time, the homes served a broad demographic spectrum.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 21 Jan. 2023
  • In the report, there’s a full map of racial and demographic breakdown.
    — Deidre Montague, Hartford Courant, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Not every demographic group saw the same changes, the researchers found.
    — Kate Sheridan, STAT, 1 Sep. 2022
  • But demographic trends are putting a lid on potential growth from more hours of work.
    — Neil Irwin, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2018
  • But the data show that demographic groups are not monoliths.
    — Nami Sumida, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The impact of turnout and support over demographic shifts was even greater in the battleground states.
    — Nate Cohn, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2016
  • But the demographic most likely to produce such a surge is now in a very different place.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Life history is a kind of lens through which demographic noise works.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Quanta Magazine, 26 June 2023
  • And demographic change has us on trend to be a superpower of color in the near future.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The controversy comes at a time of rapid demographic change.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2021
  • But the jolt of Floyd’s death would in some ways cross demographic gulfs, experts say.
    — Hannah Knowles, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Apr. 2021
  • But the game is going to be live streamed on Facebook, where that demographic rules.
    — oregonlive, 4 Sep. 2019
  • As those demographic groups have grown, the overall electorate is younger.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2021
  • But at one protest in Missouri, the calls for change were coming from a much younger demographic.
    — Alicia Lee, CNN, 1 July 2020
  • Each side can point to relevant demographic trends for its case.
    — CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The biggest part of Utah’s spike is tied to a specific place and demographic.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Now those people are alarmed at the country’s demographic changes.
    — Washington Post, 26 June 2021
  • But with which demographic groups is Biden losing the most support?
    — Leah Askarinam, ABC News, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Latinos have been the fastest-growing demographic group enrolling in college over the past two decades.
    — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 10 Nov. 2022
  • In fact, research shows that people are more likely to hire those who hail from their own demographic.
    — Michelle Goodman, The Seattle Times, 16 Oct. 2018
  • Nielsen also showed off new demographic data of spiked seltzer.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 19 Feb. 2020

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