Example sentences for: co-opted

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

  • In the example below, some villain has co-opted image B for his nefarious (and libelous) ends.

  • As in the United States, the European left has co-opted the right's policies.

  • This causes them to focus on the Republican themes Clinton rejected (cuts in Medicare, education, and the environment) and overlook the ones he co-opted (crime, family values, budget-balancing).

  • Fashion journalists and sensational fictioneers like Danielle Steele have co-opted the field, and other writers are scared off.

  • While I'd love to be able to tell you that PBS was born in a Seven Days in May -type coup, and that Julia Child, Mister Rogers, and Jim Lehrer have been slipping us subliminal military propaganda since the beginning, Ledbetter doesn't develop his idea that the Cold Warriors co-opted PBS.


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