Example sentences for: reactionary

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

  • In 1996, the feisty reactionary beat Bob Dole in the New Hampshire primary, capturing the state with 27 percent of the vote.

  • It's amazing that Mendes and Ball get away with recycling so many stale and reactionary ideas under the all-purpose rubric of "black comedy."

  • Now he is deploying his pain in a legislatively less specific way, to try to show that he is not the reactionary bogeyman most people think he is.

  • And no, I'm not a reactionary.

  • moral and intellectual" (Donald Lyons, the Wall Street Journal ). Others take the occasion to recall, resentfully, how the "reactionary" show beat out Hair for a Tony; Newsday 's Linda Winer declares it "Broadway's equivalent of an extremely competent after-school special."


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