Example sentences for: quash

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

  • The cover editorial says Russia is in surprisingly decent economic shape, but Yeltsin's infirmity could quash reforms and lead to "crony capitalism" or possibly even communism.

  • In the early 1940s, World Publishing Company, producer of Webster's New World dictionaries, obtained a ruling to quash the disclaimer requirement.

  • Amazon.com and independent bookstores that currently buy books from Ingram are nervous--unless Federal regulators quash the deal, these booksellers' biggest retail rival will own their main source of wholesale books.

  • And the dailies all quote her lawyer's comment that she will testify if his attempts to quash the grand jury subpoena are unsuccessful.

  • While holding out against lucrative trade concessions demanded by Wall Street and Hollywood, Zhu is offering to let American telecommunications firms own Chinese cell phone and Internet companies, which presumably would undermine China's ability to quash domestic dissent.


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