Example sentences for: dissents

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

  • Scott, the New York Times Book Review ). Ken Tucker dissents in the Baltimore Sun , calling the book "one of [McInerney's] most clever, funny, and moving ...

  • It shows only that California's own bilingual education system is unpopular, dissents Clarence Page ( The McLaughlin Group ), and says nothing about other states' programs.

  • The WSJ dissents.

  • It's a portrait of the artist as a perfect swine" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). British newcomer Samantha Morton steals the show as a mute laundress who becomes Ray's lover: "Rarely has a performer mined such complex and potent emotion from such simple materials: a smile, a shrug, an attentive winsomeness" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). One critic dissents: Mike Clark of USA Today calls the film "depressing" and only "sporadically amusing."

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


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