Example sentences for: subversive

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

  • His love of the Romance languages incited a highly subversive orthographic innovation: the elimination of capital letters on German nouns.

  • The only way to squelch subversive messages is to block the Internet entirely, which would cripple economic growth.

  • Live music is quite common, with jazz, suppressed as subversive in the Stalinist era, currently enjoying something of a renaissance in Budapest nightspots.

  • The more subversive Instinct gets in proclaiming free will an illusion fostered by a rigidly repressive society, the more captive it seems to a rigidly repressive studio marketing department.

  • Suppose I'm willing to pay $20 to read the subversive works of Paul Krugman and you're willing to pay $40 to stop me.


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