Example sentences for: disapprove

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

  • Family values, shmamily values: We will bury Elián González beneath a mountain of toys before we reunite him with a father who lives in a nation whose government we disapprove of.

  • I see the rather boring point about using alumni to cover both men and women, and I quite agree that the use of relatively newer and less widely used terms like authoress, aviatrix , and poetess seems to be a deliberate, unwarranted attempt to identify someone as a female; but a graduate of the feminine gender is a `woman graduate' = alumna , the `first woman dancer in a ballet company' is a prima ballerina (I've never heard of a “prime ballerino”), and a `woman opera star' is a diva or prima donna . I hesitate to point out that we use prima donna of men, too, because my critics will say that they disapprove of the term's second life as designating a “temperamental person of either sex.

  • They sense that there's something visceral about, say, malice; yet they'll tell you (when not in its thrall) that they disapprove of it.

  • approve each application listed under paragraph (2) with a ratio equal to or less than theallowance-to-emission-reduction ratio determined under paragraph (5) and disapprove all the other applications.

  • The Thernstroms mainly disapprove; the "one small bit of arguably good news" about the act, they write, was that Congress outlawed race norming.


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