Example sentences for: advocated

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

  • But this bit of gratuitous groveling pales next to the sins of others--both those who remained Stalinists into the 1950s and those who did not just acquiesce in, but advocated, McCarthyism.

  • But in fact Boulaye had advocated supporting "a party," meaning the Conservative Party.

  • Other researchers have advocated further adjusting estimates for factors such as maternal height and weight, [ 16 26 ] and even for weights of prior infants born to the same mother.

  • The New York Times front is a campaign manager's dream: The lead is Al Gore's vow yesterday that if elected president, he would ban offshore drilling for gas and oil along both the California and Florida coasts (the Clinton administration policy is a mere moratorium), and nearby is a reefer reporting that Bill Bradley yesterday advocated attacking child poverty by raising the minimum wage, increasing child-care spending, and providing working parents with various tax benefits.

  • In what the White House promoted as a major speech on foreign policy challenges, the president advocated an active role for the United States throughout the world and defended his policy of engagement in China, as the Times and the Post , report in front-page articles.


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