Example sentences for: quashed

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

  • In France, where the trouble in its former colony continued to occupy many newspaper-column inches, the principal Paris morning paper, the conservative Le Figaro, carried an interview with the leader of the Algerian Islamic party (FIS) that won the 1991 Algerian election, only to see the result quashed and its members jailed for five years.

  • The uprising was quashed, however, and in 1795, Poniatowski was forced to abdicate.

  • This defensive maneuver quashed one dangerous story line--"Why are all the Republicans losing?"

  • This intelligence rose all the way up to British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden, who quashed it, and Winston Churchill, who enfolded it in grandiose speeches about mass execution that didn't quite explain what was occurring.

  • Seigel also says that bohemians have a role to play in society: Theirs is to act out the bourgeoisie's quashed longings and confusions.


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