Example sentences for: boycott

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

  • A headmaster staged a false boycott of the sitcom The Family Guy . The Rev.

  • 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).

  • What about verbs such as boycott, hoover, gerrymander, pasteurize (all based on personal names, though all usually written with a small letter).

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

  • This is an attempt to resolve the scandal over whether the banks ingratiated themselves to the Nazis and stole deposits made by Holocaust victims . Commentators agree that the Swiss haven't really repented and are just trying to restore their trustworthy-banker reputation and stave off a boycott organized by Jewish groups.


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