Example sentences for: subverting

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

  • Beatty's image isn't so iconic in the minds of today's moviegoer that subverting it is wildly hilarious.

  • On Fox News Sunday , Juan Williams and Fred Barnes accuse Clinton of subverting the Starr investigation, but their pro-prosecutor flyer plummets when fellow guest Rush Limbaugh agrees with them.

  • They said that if obnoxious behaviors such as aggression and clannishness were innate, that would make them "natural" and hence good; or, even if bad, they would be "in the genes" and hence unchangeable, subverting hopes for social reform.

  • The charge is "subverting state power."

  • Listeners, like presenters, are aware of the linguistic and social norms which structure acceptable phone-in talk; yet they are capable of ignoring or subverting these and of attempting to renegotiate the rules of the game.


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