Example sentences for: quashed

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

  • 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.

  • Built to hold festivities during his visits from Thebes, the Ramesseum was decorated with majestic statues of the Pharaoh, and the pylon depicts him triumphant at the Battle of Qadesh when he quashed the Hittites.

  • Milosevic, meanwhile, has turned Yugoslavia into a pariah state, its economy destroyed, its ambitions for Greater Serbia quashed.

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


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