Example sentences for: subvert

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

  • ' All of President Clinton's untruths, all of his lying under oath, if you will, about an extramarital relationship does not subvert the Constitution" (Schumer).

  • Unable to subvert the machine to his will and conscience, Octavius, together with the BMI, becomes the villainous Dr. Octopus.

  • They also have institutional costs because, to the extent that they subvert clear meaning that the legislature created, they usurp legislative authority and diminish the separation of powers, one of the bedrocks of our system of government.

  • Ultimately, however, sequencing should reveal the molecular tricks that this genus uses to subvert the defences of its plant hosts, allowing scientists to come up with new ways to combat these troublesome organisms.

  • Her aim was not to subvert the women's magazine but to give it a makeover, to translate feminism into something familiar to the middle class.


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