Example sentences for: propaganda

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

  • The story, by its Berlin correspondent, Ian Traynor, said that "large parts of formerly communist east Germany are becoming virtual no-go areas for foreigners and German 'outsiders' as support for racist, neo-Nazi ideology, backed by violence, intimidation and clandestine propaganda, grows rapidly across the region, say experts, researchers and social workers."

  • 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.

  • The President explained to us that he had been concerned lest an ineffectual air strike just serve to give Bin Ladin a propaganda advantage.

  • The communist leaders, including Lenin, recognized early the propaganda value of conveniently selected entries in the hands of what the communists called agitators, apparatchiks and politruks political leaders.

  • But they exaggerate the propaganda power of Time Warner media.


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