DISSENT in a Sentence
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24 example sentences for DISSENT, such as:
1. He would brook no serious dissent.
2. She was surprised to hear Tom dissent.
3. They expressed their dissent from official policy.
4. In those days, religious dissent was not tolerated.
5. She said nothing, and shook her cropped head in dissent.
2. She was surprised to hear Tom dissent.
3. They expressed their dissent from official policy.
4. In those days, religious dissent was not tolerated.
5. She said nothing, and shook her cropped head in dissent.
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Meanings and Examples of DISSENT
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dissent
v. differ in opinion or feeling; withhold assent or approval
Classic Sentence:
1 She was surprised to hear Tom dissent.
2 The old man looked at her for an instant with an expression of the deepest tenderness, then, turning towards the notary, he significantly winked his eye in token of dissent.
3 She said nothing, and shook her cropped head in dissent.
4 Anna noticed this sigh, indicating dissent, and she went on.
5 Sir Thomas could not dissent, as it had been his own arrangement, previously communicated to his wife and sister; but that seemed forgotten by Mrs. Norris, who must fancy that she settled it all herself.
6 Mrs Musgrove had not a word to say in dissent; she could not accuse herself of having ever called them anything in the whole course of her life.
7 I shook my head: it required a degree of courage, excited as he was becoming, even to risk that mute sign of dissent.
8 It is my mother who dissents; she has a clear and penetrating judgment, and does not smile on the proposed union.
9 As she thought this, the clamor of dissenting voices rose up about Ashley, indignant, fiery.
10 At all events Robert proposed it, and there was not a dissenting voice.
11 She waved a dissenting hand, and went on, paying no further heed to their renewed cries which sought to detain her.
12 With the advantage of possessing this important intelligence, the chief warily laid his plans before his fellows, and, as might have been anticipated from his eloquence and cunning, they were adopted without a dissenting voice.
13 He gave no orders, but only assented to or dissented from what others suggested.
Example Sentence:
1 He is the toughest military ruler yet and has responded harshly to any dissent.
2 In those days, religious dissent was not tolerated.
3 He would brook no serious dissent.
4 They dissent from the Bishops Conferences, not the Universal Church, and their issue is not on “faith and morals,” but on social policy
5 They expressed their dissent from official policy.
6 Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in her dissent, argued strongly that the majority was turning that RFRA into a protean tool for all sorts of evasions.
7 Behind Iran's overtures to Washington lie pent-up pressures for change - from sanctions and internal dissent to regional turmoil - that are shaping a rare chance to end decades of hostility.
8 He and I dissented from each other in choosing a suitable candidate.
9 Two members of the committee dissented from the final report.
10 Three of the justices dissented from the majority decision.
11 Aside from a dissenter, speaker after speaker urged the federal government to adopt some or most of the report's 440 recommendations.