Example sentences for: controversies

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

  • They are, though, very useful ways of fomenting ill-considered controversies.

  • The political benefits of pedophilia have not been lost on Washington's Republicans, who have ginned up not one but two child molestation controversies during the past few weeks.

  • Stanley Fish, the flamboyant Milton scholar, legal theorist, and academic celebrity (David Lodge based his jet-setting Professor Morris Zapp on him), has left Duke University and the English department to which he attracted a parade of stars and controversies.

  • But with the Clarence Thomas (1991) and Bob Packwood (1995) controversies, these groups took the stance that female accusers always deserve the presumption of veracity in sexual harassment cases.

  • The tension between descriptive and abstract forms of music goes back to controversies of 19 th -century Germany.


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