Example sentences for: opinions

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

  • ( Slate 's Jacob Weisberg the candidate's performances in Arizona, and "" rounds up the opinions on last week's debate.)

  • Better still is a governor who lacks even private opinions.

  • There are three opinions you can't voice in America without being dismissed as a crackpot, if not worse: The '60s experiments in consciousness expansion were basically a good thing; organized religion is oppressive; children and teen-agers have a right to enjoy their sexuality.

  • Orwell constructed an alternative future in his vision of the totalitarian state, Nineteen Eighty-Four . The work has given English a small lode of unpleasantries: the title itself connotes a society marked by government terror and propaganda destroying the public's consciousness of reality (the OED Supplement also accepts 1984 and 1984-ish as adjective forms); that government's official language, Newspeak , now indicates the propagandistic or ambiguous language of, among others, politicians, bureaucrats, and broadcasters (“revenue enhancement” for “tax increase,” etc.); the twisting of minds to the capacity to accept the validity of utterly contradictory opinions or beliefs, or double-think ; the book's head of state, Big Brother , implies an apparently benevolent, but really ruthless, omnipotent, and omniscient state authority.

  • These extracts, which are in chronological order, have been well selected for clarity and interest; neither cryptically brief nor tediously long, they accurately reflect the opinions on, for example, World English--the spread of English and its emergence as a lingua franca--dating from 1846 to 1990; comments on Proper English are reflected in extracts dating from 1711 to 1986.


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