Example sentences for: detractors

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

  • Supporters and detractors called the plan an end run around affirmative action bans at state universities.

  • His detractors say he's a KGB spy, a believer in centralized power, and a ruthless prosecutor of the war in Chechnya.

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

  • Detractors assailed Robert Kennedy for his 1964 New York Senate bid; even the liberal New York Times endorsed Republican Kenneth Keating.

  • And the tired excoriation of the press: "To my detractors and the naysayers out there, otherwise known as "talking heads," or "kibitzers," I say, bah humbug!"


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