Example sentences for: objected

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

  • When, during the French Revolution, the Convention ambitiously declared slavery abolished, Martinique’s wealthy plantation owners frantically objected.

  • "I certainly wouldn't have objected" to getting the No. 1 position, Felt said.

  • He especially objected to an account of a dinner party at his house, at which his wife Ilena (according to Reich) exclaims in horror, and the whole table falls silent, when Reich "puncture[s] the evening's high-society ambiance" by mistaking mint jelly for sauce.

  • Reformers objected to the latter as a derogation of Jesus Christ's redemptive death on the cross and a theological close cousin to the selling of indulgences.

  • Perhaps the most acute epitaph of the Cold War was written at its birth, by Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, who objected to U.S. demands for "an open door" for its industrialists throughout Europe: "We would probably live to see the day when in your own country, on switching on the radio, you would be hearing not so much your own language as one American gramophone record after [another] ...


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