Example sentences for: strident

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

  • Reporters deemed his tone "strident" and belligerent.

  • To ward off increasingly strident demands from leftists, Rockefeller wanted to create businesses that would raise people's standard of living; using his own resources, he set up companies to raise cattle, grow crops, market food, develop natural resources, and build housing.

  • In this jeremiad, males are viewed as the “enemy,” and are so characterized throughout the book, which concludes with exhortations to engage the foe and a strident call to arms (though not men's).

  • Three years into his term he dropped his strident opposition to gun control when the position began hurting his poll numbers.

  • They were part of a "backlash against the women's movement," declared Sandra Scarr, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and prominent day-care expert (now the CEO of KinderCare), in the strident mood of the moment.


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