Example sentences for: decrying

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

  • Lobbyists, decrying insurers' coverage of Viagra but not birth control, have stepped up Congressional lobbying in recent months.

  • After decrying the Disneyfication of Broadway for months, critics rave over the studio's Broadway adaptation of its cartoon movie.

  • Newsweek also gets cuffed about in Backlash for decrying "the emotional fallout of feminism"; for hyping "cocooning," a trend pretty much invented by Faith Popcorn; for attacking the "myth of Supermom"; for running two covers on the "trend of childlessness"; and for exaggerating the problem of drug addiction among pregnant mothers, among other sins.

  • Hillsdale College President George Roche III, nationally known for decrying a moral crisis in higher education, resigned from his $188,000 post.

  • Recently, the head of the California Bar Association delivered an address at the annual meeting decrying jokes about lawyers, suggesting that a man who had raided a law office and killed some people in it had been inspired or spurred on by the derisive attitude toward lawyers that “lawyer jokes” fostered.


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