Example sentences for: propaganda

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

  • Way back, last December, Slate warned the world not to believe all the Disney propaganda about the charm of Dalmatian puppies.

  • Nor is there any liberal equivalent to the way various conservative outlets--from the National Review to Novak's syndicated column and Rush Limbaugh's radio show--all disseminate the same message du jour . Before the 1996 election, the conservative propaganda line generally reflected poll-tested talking points on issues like taxes or welfare reform.

  • Well, the Chinese Embassy has--there's a whole page of links to government propaganda on the subject, including a diatribe titled "A Look at the U.S.

  • 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.

  • Nobody called Keyes on the most outrageous thing he said in the debate, that atrocities in Kosovo were mostly "propaganda" devised by the Clinton administration in order to manipulate the American public into supporting a war.


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