Example sentences for: dissident

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

  • The Times of London led Monday with warnings from Irish police sources that dissident Irish Republicans are planning a series of high-profile terrorist attacks in Britain around the end of the year, including one on the Millennium Dome in Greenwich, London.

  • Soon he was a dissident professor, and he served a term in prison in the early '70s for opposing Tito's dictatorship.

  • The Washington Post leads with details of a 1993 abduction of a Libyan dissident from Cairo.

  • With help from a dissident member of the royal family, he managed to get out of the country under the pretext of attending an Islamic gathering in Pakistan in April 1991.

  • The Beijing government has stifled every remaining dissident through exile, imprisonment, or intimidation.


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