Example sentences for: dissenters

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

  • A few carp about the film's cloying, overt patriotism--and the avoidance of the politics and protests that surrounded the war--with the most vocal dissenters saying it "restart[s] the John Wayne-ing of Vietnam" (Michael Atkinson, the Village Voice ). For most, though, the stories, told by some 20 captured airmen, speak eloquently and powerfully.

  • Dissenters gripe about cheap high-mindedness, especially the caricatures of money-grubbing sports agents.

  • Pat Buchanan ( The McLaughlin Group ) and George Will ( This Week ) were lonely dissenters, taking the view that warm relations with a hideous human-rights violator are not especially praiseworthy.

  • The Shearers are also the kind of people Republican mugwumps despise most viscerally: privileged, socially and professionally ambitious dissenters whose liberal-left politics don't prevent them from enjoying the prerogatives of membership in the establishment.

  • Many predict stardom for Ricci ( The Addams Family and The Ice Storm ). Dissenters fault the film for turning sentimental at the end.


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