Example sentences for: dissents

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

  • Slate's Walter Kirn, however, dissents, condemning Nothing Sacred as self-righteous "phony Hollywood iconoclasm."

  • Mister Justice Chatterbox humbly dissents from the Supreme Court majority's view that the First Amendment has any "application in the subsidy context."

  • Shatz also violently dissents from the scholarly consensus on civilian German attitudes toward Jews during World War II.

  • Praise goes to Kirstie Alley, who plays an aging ex-model now in the lingerie business: "Less frenetic than Lucy, more mature than Mary" (Richard Corliss, Time ). The Washington Post 's Tom Shales dissents, calling Alley unwatchably neurotic and "in a virtually perpetual feverish tizzy."

  • 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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