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.

  • Pundits think Clinton could delay the investigation by refusing the subpoena and that he might even get it quashed on the grounds that a sitting president can't be forced to testify, but agree the political cost of such a fight would be too high for Clinton.

  • When Courtney Love denied Broomfield the rights to Cobain's music and tried to get his movie quashed, she may not have been acting as the poster-girl for the ACLU that the organization perhaps naively tried to turn her into, but she was exercising her constitutionally-guaranteed right to protect her reputation against the worst form of libel there is.

  • 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.

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


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