Example sentences for: unpopular

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

  • That's why civil-liberties activists are crying foul at the new venue, saying that the only thing the removal court will remove is constitutional protections for aliens who engage in politically unpopular speech.

  • Pundits said the debate reinforced the race's existing dynamics: 1) McCain continued to "portray himself as an outsider and as the only candidate willing to speak often unpopular truths"; 2) Bauer, Forbes, Hatch, and Keyes highlighted their conservative credentials while painting Bush as an unprincipled centrist; and 3) Bush maintained his front-runner status , responding to attacks with "a more assertive demeanor and a more confident manner" than in previous debates.

  • He has the unpopular stands taken by Michael Dukakis and John Silber to thank for creating the conditions for solid growth that have buoyed his popularity.

  • Gere is Ike Graham, a New York-based USA Today columnist, who hears about Maggie in a bar and, without even a call to confirm his facts ( check ), devotes his next piece to an un-PC screed on the inconstancy of all women ( check ) with this "runaway bride" as Exhibit A. The column makes him instantly ( check ) unpopular with all those Manhattan USA Today readers ( check ) who recognize him on the street ( check ), not to mention the hordes of small-town USA Today readers who wait for the paper's delivery truck as if it were the Good Humor man ( check ). After the subject of the column responds with a letter composed on a manual typewriter ( check ) disputing its facts, his editor and ex-wife ( check ) (Rita Wilson) promptly ( check ) fires him ( check ).

  • The most unpopular PM in Canada's modem history, he introduced the Goods and Services Tax, a VAT-like national sales tax.


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