How to Use faction in a Sentence

faction

noun
Definition of factionnext
Synonyms for factionnext
  • The committee soon split into factions.
  • The strangest part: These factions don’t have much in common.
    — Nicholas Pompella, National Review, 28 May 2023
  • The country split in 2014 between warring factions in the east and west.
    — Mostafa Salem, CNN, 17 Mar. 2023
  • This would be the first time the Transformers and Joes have crossed over on the big screen, but the two factions have already teamed up in the comics world.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 9 June 2023
  • Drescher was first elected in 2021, and has worked to unify the warring factions within the union.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The latter faction fled and entrenched itself in the island of Taiwan.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The Reed faction won control of the party last August and installed Kelley as chair.
    — Alander Rocha, al, 11 Sep. 2023
  • But the comments from two factions firing at each other in the streets rang hollow for many Sudanese.
    — Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The explosion of the drama between the East Coast and the West Coast factions of hip-hop that would later lead to bloodshed happened that night.
    — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Just what have your favorite factions — er, actors been up to lately?
    — Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 24 Feb. 2024
  • What if the sparring factions couldn’t agree on the best spots to build solar and wind farms, and instead wasted years arguing?
    — Sammy Roth, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2023
  • And at nearly every turn, a small faction of far-right lawmakers has blocked his plans.
    — Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Genesis is part of the faction Exile along with Ice Cold and Exodus.
    — Jim Varsallone, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Last August, Reed’s faction won control of the party and elected Kelley chair.
    — Brian Lyman, al, 17 June 2023
  • Different factions took different lessons with them from The Builder War.
    — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • And yet, as vote counting finished over the weekend, would-be lawmakers from a faction technically barred from the polls were in the lead.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2024
  • In 2014, the country fell into a civil war that led to it splitting between warring factions.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The faction became a hit with fans, with their entrance — with the lights turned off and the crowd shining their flashlights, giving a backwoods feel to arenas — being among the best in WWE at the time.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The Negev Bedouin are one of the most disadvantaged factions of Israeli society.
    — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 28 Mar. 2024
  • But some within Nasrallah’s own movement, as well as armed factions around the region, seek to open a new front against Israel.
    — Ellen Francis, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
  • For the past decade, the group has lived away from Mali due to ongoing violence between the warring northern and southern factions in the country.
    — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Gunfire between the two factions battling for control resounded in the streets.
    — Ellen Knickmeyer, Anchorage Daily News, 1 May 2023
  • Mediterranean Sea The North African nation has been mired in violence between warring factions for more than a decade.
    — Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The Jenin Brigade, a faction affiliated with the wider Islamic Jihad group, said eight of the dead, ranging in age from 16- to 21-years-old, came from among their ranks.
    — Salma Abdelaziz, CNN, 7 July 2023
  • For decades, these rival factions maintained a balance of power: The right has led Israel for most of the past four decades, but always in coalition with parts of the center or left.
    — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 23 July 2023
  • Currently, the populist faction clearly has the upper hand.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
  • The Haqqanis pledge loyalty to the Taliban’s emir but are seen as more of a coalition partner than a subordinate faction.
    — Steve Coll, The New York Review of Books, 1 June 2023
  • After coming in contact with a group called the Bureau, Shailene Woodley's Tris and the rest of the group learn that their city and all of the factions have been part of a genetic experiment.
    — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Wrath & Glory puts characters from the many factions of the setting together into one play group.
    — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • But he was forced to flee his second home in the spring, after clashes between the two warring factions erupted into a searing conflict.
    — Sana Noor Haq, CNN, 1 Sep. 2023

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'faction.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: