Example sentences for: championing

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

  • From Jules and Jim there are the plucked, fragrant melodies that stop brilliantly short of cloying, the spasm of frantic neo-Baroque fiddling from Day for Night , and the tangy sounds of an out-of-tune barroom upright from Shoot the Piano Player . In these eclectic sketches--which capture an image but have no emotional arc of their own--the irony of this project comes into focus: the contradiction of championing film music by cleaving it from film.

  • John Danforth's championing of affirmative-action foe Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court at the same time Danforth was pushing the Bush White House to sign the affirmative-action-friendly 1991 civil rights bill (which it eventually did).

  • A sidebar castigates the Clinton administration for championing the interests of drug companies to the detriment of public health by trying to prevent the sale of generic substitutes in developing nations.

  • New York's Rudolph Giuliani, Los Angeles' Richard Riordan, Chicago's Richard Daley, and other mayors are championing efficient government and free enterprise while opposing identity politics and income redistribution.

  • On health care, Bradley is championing an entitlement, while Gore is exposing-and, according to Bradley, exaggerating-its cost.


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