Example sentences for: decried

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

  • In an editorial Thursday, the Times of London decried the chaos afflicting international diplomacy over Kosovo, "with meetings scheduled and cancelled within hours, statements issued and promptly retracted, statesmen announcing their arrival in capitals unprepared to greet them, and leaders trying to keep telephone track of the Balkan imbroglio while locked into campaigns and duties thousands of miles away."

  • At a 54-member meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Yeltsin decried the "sermonizing" by the West over his attack on the rebellious province of Chechnya.

  • For weeks afterward, his former aide and current foreign minister issued a pro-Serbian, anti-NATO line and decried claims of anti-Albanian atrocities as defamatory.

  • Fifty years of social science have decried what that old order did to human beings.

  • Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg put the school into the news this month when she expressed her dismay about online legal education to the San Jose Mercury News . Ginsburg decried the lack of "face-to-face interaction," to which Concord student William Boletta responded, "I suggest that she might want to take a Tylenol or two and get ready for the 21 st century."


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