Example sentences for: protest

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

  • A piece on the WP front reports on an organized protest campaign of thousands of angry phone calls, letters and e-mails directed at Merriam-Webster because of its current dictionary's definition of "nigger" as "a black person--usually taken to be offensive."

  • One might protest that these comments are made with the benefit of hindsight.

  • “Faculty protest against apartheid at Cornell.”

  • He wrote, "With peace and prosperity blanketing ever larger stretches of the globe--with nuclear weapons being decommissioned and Unionists and Nationalists entering into government together in Northern Ireland--we are in danger of reaching a state of affairs where there is nothing left to protest."

  • He moved, however, not toward anything resembling social protest; one of Corot's rare representations of modernization--a view of a textile factory with a woman sitting at a pre-industrial spinning wheel in the foreground--is more wistful than indignant.


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