How to Use unanimous in a Sentence

unanimous

adjective
  • The judges made a unanimous ruling.
  • Ohtani was a unanimous choice in 2021 and should be again.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
  • But in those first weeks and months, the praise was by no means unanimous.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The vote to keep the funds rate unchanged was unanimous.
    — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 29 Jan. 2025
  • The bills passed the Senate in the fall with near unanimous support but are stalled in the House.
    — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2022
  • There is no unanimous choice for which UM player was the best at the game.
    — Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 31 July 2024
  • That's because 127 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled to the contrary by a unanimous vote.
    — Nina Totenberg, NPR, 15 May 2025
  • Queen was a unanimous choice for the all-freshman team.
    — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Wilson was also the AP's unanimous choice for the Player of the Year award.
    — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Ask them if the home comes close to their vision, and there’s a unanimous response: yes.
    — Vaishnavi Nayel Talawadekar, Architectural Digest, 3 July 2024
  • The school board meeting minutes show that the vote to ban the book was unanimous among board members.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The unanimous wrong pick from last week’s games was Buckeye.
    — Jonathan X. Simmons, cleveland, 19 Oct. 2022
  • This was the unanimous favorite among the Glamour team.
    — Clare Holden, Glamour, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Approval of 75% of all owners was required, and MLB said the vote was unanimous.
    — Noah Trister, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2024
  • None of the unions' leaders would say how many members voted, just that the votes were unanimous.
    — Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 13 May 2024
  • The move backfired when Chelsie swept the jury, winning in a unanimous 7-0 vote.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 14 Oct. 2024
  • The Supreme Court was unanimous in its decision in favor of the agency and the foster moms.
    — Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, National Review, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Support by farmers for the far right is not at all unanimous.
    — Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Earlier in the day, the Bank of Japan held interest rates steady at 0.5% in a unanimous vote.
    — Sean Conlon,brian Evans, CNBC, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The five justices on the panel were unanimous in their order.
    — Carrie Kahn, NPR, 26 Mar. 2025
  • In a unanimous decision, the Texas Supreme Court found the women did not have standing to sue.
    — Bayliss Wagner, Austin American-Statesman, 11 Nov. 2024
  • At the same time, Pelosi applauded House Democrats for their near unanimous vote against the measure.
    — Mariam Khan, ABC News, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Gilbert, who was elected speaker on a unanimous vote, stood stern-faced and silent as Filler-Corn spoke.
    — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
  • The plan received unanimous approval from the council who lauded staff’s work and deep dive into the risks the city faces.
    — Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2025
  • All were unanimous except the last item, which was approved in a 27-20 vote after Ald.
    — Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Cohen urged Olmedo to ask the jury what could be done to come to a unanimous decision on the charges.
    — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2022
  • In unanimous votes on Tuesday, the board agreed on new names for the schools that are expected to be in place for the upcoming school year.
    — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland, 1 July 2022
  • On June 1, the jury’s unanimous verdict was in favor of all three defamation claims made by Depp; and one for Heard.
    — Time, 16 Aug. 2023
  • For each death sentence, the jury must be unanimous or the sentence for that victim is life.
    — Terry Spencer, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2022
  • But the Florida Supreme Court, in a unanimous opinion issued Thursday, rejected the arguments about etomidate, a sedative.
    — Jim Saunders, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 May 2025

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