Example sentences for: state-sponsored

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

  • But I think that as long as someone is an adult (key word there; scumbags who sell cigarettes to children should be treated to a heavy dose of state-sponsored torture), then let them enjoy their pack-a-day trips to Marlboro Country.

  • Titled "It's Time to Take on the Judges," it heaped outrage on the recent decision by a California federal judge halting the enforcement of Proposition 209, passed by the voters last month, which bans state-sponsored affirmative action.

  • In an effort to preserve their mission, members of the air defense community advocated the importance of air sovereignty against emerging "asymmetric threats" to the United States: drug smuggling, "non-state and state-sponsored terrorists," and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile technology.

  • What we have is state-sponsored gambling.

  • Safire preaches his immovable conviction "that casino operators are predators; that state-sponsored lotteries make a mockery of public policy; that politicians who are on the take from gambling interests are wallowing in the occasion of sin."


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