Example sentences for: boycott

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

  • The boycott fizzled because ... well, because, $7 wasn't all that much to spend on an evening's entertainment in Fun City.

  • There would appear to be no reason why the first of these defining factors cannot be applied equally well to verbs, a boycott and to boycott could be labelled hand-in-hand as eponymous noun and verb (poor Capt. Boycott having been forgotten by everyone except the etymologists and encyclopedists).

  • Hero worship dominated the story from the Montgomery bus boycott in the 1950s through the Reaganaut '80s, when writers finally began to acknowledge that the civil rights establishment had just as many fakers as saints.

  • Let's have a real boycott!

  • Having just read "Boycott Nike and Reebok," Robert Wright's treatise on the evils of shoe companies and their athlete "pitchmen," it becomes clear that Wright has failed to do his homework, at least with regard to the Chicago Bulls' Scottie Pippen.


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