Example sentences for: decry

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

  • In the New Republic , Robert Kagan says the authors' mild policy prescriptions won't solve the problems they shrilly decry.

  • ("Commoditization" is therefore different from "commodification," the word cultural critics use to decry the corruption of higher goods by commercial values.

  • Although the Fed rarely changes rates during campaigns, the move was interpreted as benefiting Clinton by denying Dole and Kemp an excuse to a) decry government constriction of the economy; and b) blame Clinton for incipient inflation.

  • If this piece turned up in the Whitney Museum labeled as an "installation" and funded by an NEA grant, conservatives would rise to decry it on the floor of the House of Representatives.

  • 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.


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