Example sentences for: activist

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

  • The magazine profiles former anti-apartheid activist Mamphela Ramphele, who now heads the University of Cape Town: She has won admirers (and enemies) by insisting that the university not adjust its standards to favor black students.

  • Activist groups are dubious.

  • "A wake-up call for American consumers," is how one activist described the event.

  • Writings by the imprisoned Chinese political activist are granted a place "among the classics of the 20 th century literature of dissent, alongside the writings of figures like Vaclav Havel, Vladmir Bukovsky and Adam Michnik" (Richard Bernstein, the New York Times ). The collection mainly consists of letters, written from prison to Chinese leaders, pleading the case for democracy.

  • The liberal Guardian , by contrast, wants to see him tried, and its reporter, a former human rights activist, noted that his fingers are "flat and meaty like those of a butcher."


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