Example sentences for: protested

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

  • American editorialists protested the transition is too slow, but Nigerians count themselves lucky, since previous "transitions" have been slower and illusory.

  • The Post reports that when four women belonging to the Lesbian Avengers, which has protested PK rallies across the country, took off their shirts and marched bare-breasted into the crowd, a Park Police cop said, "Bare breasts are okay in the District."

  • Former head of the AFL-CIO Lane Kirkland, whom Reich portrays unsympathetically in several private dialogues, protested in a recent letter to Reich: "I did not, in fact, utter the words that you attribute to me in various places, in direct quotation marks, as though you were repeating my words verbatim."

  • Those who protested NATO's action in Kosovo because it lacked a U.N. mandate should read Slaughterhouse to see what an earlier mandate produced: ethnic cleansing superintended by men in blue helmets.

  • Small wonder that Asian-Americans have protested the tenor of the Lippo reportage and the portrayal of Asian-Americans as people with divided loyalties.


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