Example sentences for: dissents

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

  • The Chicago Sun-Times ' Roger Ebert dissents, suggesting critics are swooning over this pretentious, sluggish "lifeless drone" for political reasons.

  • New York 's Walter Kirn dissents from the pack, complaining of McKibben's books in general--"his combination of arrogance and sincerity, narcissism and asceticism, is riveting and infuriating at once"--and of this book in specific--"The thesis is ancient and hard to argue with, though something in McKibben's pious manner may make one want to try."

  • Robert Hilburn of the Los Angeles Times dissents, calling Mule Variations "personal and accessible"; as does Billboard , "Waits digs deep and wide into his song psyche and pulls up material rooted in blues, gospel, and cabaret music but delivered with the utmost originality."

  • In a sidebar , George Stephanopoulos dissents: The New York press will eat her alive, the Senate's a grind ("you won't fly on Air Force One or ride in escorted motorcades"), and she'd eventually make an even better presidential candidate.

  • Critics pant at the steamy, tearful sex scenes between Stella and young Winston (Taye Diggs), although Time 's Richard Corliss dissents, calling it "soft-pore cornography."


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