Example sentences for: against

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

  • A story celebrates bowling, a blue-collar sport with a socialist heart ("handicaps" allow bowlers of different abilities to compete against one another on equal terms).

  • Defenders of affirmative action and defenders of racial profiling even resort to the same dodge in defending their cause against colorblind absolutists.

  • The comic books, Faison says, "drip with so much political venom that they capture the labored nature of the campaign [against Hongzhi] in a way that verges on parody."

  • There's a sore on his right pinky finger, a raw spot, flesh rubbed off to blood against the oak, from where he was clawing the chair.

  • "People are not so focused on impeachment that they would come into the voting booths in November 2000 and say, 'Aha, he was for impeachment,' and vote against him," says Democratic pollster Mark Mellman.


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