Example sentences for: dissident

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

  • The LAT , NYT , and USAT each carry front-page stories about just-released Chinese dissident Wei Jingshang, now hospitalized in Detroit.

  • Repeating the claims of Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng, the essay says China needs American business and will accede to human rights demands to keep it.

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

  • The NYT front reports that an FBI undercover operation in New York, prompted by a tip from celebrated Chinese exiled dissident Harry Wu, has produced the arrest of two men for trying to sell organs from the bodies of executed Chinese prisoners.

  • One notable exception is Nina Shea of the Puebla Institute, whose wider experience may explain why her recent article in Crisis magazine at least acknowledges that many "friends in Taiwan and Hong Kong and many Chinese dissident intellectuals argue against" tying Chinese trade to human rights.


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