Example sentences for: detractors

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

  • Detractors have pointed out that the only significant amendment to the bill ended up delaying the pipeline's closure by a year.

  • Now McCain is running from the character issue: His Vietnam ordeal, detractors allege, left him irascible, unstable, unfit for the presidency.

  • Book -- Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career , by George Plimpton;

  • Some detractors ridicule Mamet's language for its "terrible syntax, clichés, non-sequiturs, idiocies--but, man, that's how people talk!"

  • According to leading Arab affairs analyst Riad Najib el-Rayyes, writing Tuesday in the Beirut daily an-Nahar , Saddam's reiteration of Iraq's historical claim to Kuwait is intended as a signal to his Arab detractors that, if they continue trying to block his rehabilitation, he will make life hard for them by reopening a number of troublesome "files."


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