Example sentences for: decrying

How can you use “decrying” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He has hailed those who work for NGOs as heroes, while decrying the NGOs themselves as "feudal lords" of "the new medievalism."

  • You can dismiss someone like DeLay as an extremist, but, in the wake of Littleton, many moderate pundits and politicians who disdain creationism joined him in decrying the nihilism supposedly engendered by our secular culture.

  • Amazing detail: The idea of suing gunmakers, one of the lawyers says, came straight from a Wall Street Journal editorial decrying the ever-widening scope of tort lawsuits.

  • Recently, the head of the California Bar Association delivered an address at the annual meeting decrying jokes about lawyers, suggesting that a man who had raided a law office and killed some people in it had been inspired or spurred on by the derisive attitude toward lawyers that “lawyer jokes” fostered.

  • If there were only one white, affluent couple sending its child to private schools while decrying school choice for others, that would be one thing.


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