Example sentences for: subvert

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

  • In the depths of the Cold War, many Americans suspected Communists had infiltrated Washington and were about to subvert our democracy.

  • Rather than try to subvert or oppose Belgrade's censorship, CNN has happily accepted it in exchange for "access."

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

  • 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.

  • Abrams felt he was defending liberty in Nicaragua, while others might characterize his deception as an effort to subvert democracy in the United States.


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