Example sentences for: opposition

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

  • I am still concerned about the risk of setting a precedent for opposition majorities in Congress to remove presidents for purely political reasons.

  • Viseu is a dignified and historic town, supposedly home to Viriathus, the Lusitanian hero who organized the opposition to the Roman invasion of 147 bc.

  • The papers say that the nation's top opposition leader had called for a million demonstrators to take to the streets of Jakarta, and that the military, primarily via stern television messages, urged them not to.

  • One of the ways he did this was by taking an unambiguous moral stand against Communism, which gave powerful encouragement to the opposition in Eastern-bloc countries.

  • The FT said that a plan to avert Armageddon has been demanded of the government by an opposition member of parliament named Lembit Opik, whose Estonian grandfather Ernst had an asteroid named after him.


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