Example sentences for: unicef

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

  • In London Wednesday, the tabloid Daily Express reported from Kukes in Albania that 100 Kosovar women gave the same account to UNICEF counselors of how they had been repeatedly stripped, sprayed with perfume, and then raped by Serb soldiers who held them hostage in three houses for several days.

  • (In some Americans' eyes, the United Nations' principal accomplishment is collecting loose change during UNICEF's trick-or-treat fund drives.)

  • ' Although the editor mentions pronounceable acronyms in his Preface, users would be at a loss to determine that UN and R.A.F . are not pronounced but that R.A.D.A . (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts “RAHdah”), UNICEF, U.N.C.L.E ., and Pan-Am are; worse, the showing of radar as RADAR (for `radio detecting and ranging') and sonar as SONAR (`sound navigation and ranging') is in outright error.

  • Singer argued that we should regard every $200 we spend on anything inessential as the heartless crypto-murder of a Third World child, since the donation of that $200 to Oxfam or UNICEF would prevent an infant from dying.

  • In an essay, Peter Singer argues that every yuppie contributes to a child's death when he chooses foie gras rather than donating to UNICEF (for more on Singer, see The New Yorker below).


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