Example sentences for: subversive

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

  • Kate's position at the school, which is overseen by the local priest, is imperiled by the subversive presence of her brother.

  • What seems, on the surface, as ingratiating a movie as Altman has ever made, is actually packed with subversive ideas.

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

  • But to go back to the beginning, I think it is agreed that euphemism is the deliberate substitution of a socially acceptable, or “laundered” term for one that is considered taboo (for any reason at all--because it is inappropriate to a given situation, irreligious, antireligious, deprecatory, insulting, impolite, indecorous, subversive, unpatriotic, slanderous, prejudicial, and so forth).

  • On a plane, he meets Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), a cryptic hipster with a penchant for subversive acts both large (he makes high-priced soaps from liposuctioned human fat) and small (he splices frames from porn flicks into kiddie movies).


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