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Example sentences for: decry

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David Helfgott World Tour . Journalists decry the exploitation of David Helfgott, the mentally ill former piano prodigy and subject of the biopic Shine , as a "freak show" ( Sydney Morning Herald ). They point out that during the first leg of his tour in Australia, he lost his place in midperformance, screamed while playing, and wandered into the audience.
Luntz is now advising Republicans to decry the IRS at every opportunity.
In the New Republic , Robert Kagan says the authors' mild policy prescriptions won't solve the problems they shrilly decry.
Dole is hardly better than Clinton when it comes to the Bill of Rights, and there are lots of Republicans, like Bob Barr of Georgia, who decry only those incursions that perturb the National Rifle Association.
In From One Language to Another (1986) Jan de Waard and Eugene A. Nida decry the “clinging to old-fashioned language even though the meaning has radically changed” and as a deplorable example points to the retaining of “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want” even though want no longer means to `lack' but rather `desire' and continues with, “Thus many persons understand this traditional rendering to mean, `The Lord is my shepherd whom I shall not want.