Example sentences for: opprobrium

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

  • Courting opprobrium, the president raised the touchy issue of weapons of mass destruction and bravely declared that it would be bad if they were used.

  • The role of the president is a symbolic one, and the symbol has to be a role model, not a symbol that engenders opprobrium."

  • The much newer (1962) transitive verb access , as of a data base, bears no such oblique opprobrium in Oxford , even though it induces epidemic apoplexy among the self-appointed sentinels of linguistic correctness.

  • So what's Krauthammer's view of the small, heavily militarized Yugoslav regime that is standing up to a global blockade and the opprobrium of the entire world?

  • Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer declared before the Gulf War, "If a small, heavily militarized regime can stand up to a global blockade [and] the opprobrium of the entire world ...


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