OPPOSITION in a Sentence

Learn OPPOSITION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
328 example sentences for OPPOSITION, such as:
1. Lady Bertram made no opposition.
2. Despite vehement opposition, the Act became law.
3. They mounted an effective opposition to the bill.
4. The opposition passed a vote of censure on the government.
5. The artist painted on in spite of his family's opposition.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of OPPOSITION
opposition
 n.  the major political party opposed to the party in office and prepared to replace it if elected
 n.  the relation between opposed entities
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Then down beneath a force was born in opposition; then another.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
2  Connie wondered sometimes if it were a sort of mask to disarm opposition, because it was almost too fixed.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
3  Connie hesitated; he was putting up an opposition.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
4  Because of Hilda's opposition, she was fiercely on the sidle of the man, she would stand by him through thick and thin.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
5  Lady Bertram made no opposition.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
6  Fanny dared not make any farther opposition; and with renewed but less happy thanks accepted the necklace again, for there was an expression in Miss Crawford's eyes which she could not be satisfied with.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
7  To Fanny, however, who had known too much opposition all her life to find any charm in it, all this was unintelligible.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
8  Some opposition here is, I am thoroughly convinced, friendly to matrimonial happiness.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
9  'The opposition coach contracts for these two; and takes them cheap,' said Mr. Bumble.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
10  She was a woman rather of sound than of quick abilities, whose difficulties in coming to any decision in this instance were great, from the opposition of two leading principles.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
11  Such opposition, as these feelings produced, was more than Anne could combat.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
12  Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
13  They have no difficulties to contend with at home, no opposition, no caprice, no delays.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
14  The only one among them, whose opposition of feeling could excite any serious anxiety was Lady Russell.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
15  It is not a passionate quarrel that would have broken my heart; it is the steady opposition and persistence in going wrong that he has shown.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 6 Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete
Example Sentence: (118 in 8 pages)
1  Despite vehement opposition, the Act became law.
2  The administration has been steadily rowing back from its early opposition to his attendance in London.
3  We've received permission to go ahead with the music festival in spite of opposition from local residents.
4  The artist painted on in spite of his family's opposition.
5  Various interest groups have expressed their opposition to the policy.
6  The various opposition parties speak with one voice on this issue.
7  The opposition passed a vote of censure on the government.
8  No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
9  They mounted an effective opposition to the bill.
10  The party chairman accused the opposition of dirty tricks in their election campaign.
11  He reiterated his opposition to the creation of a central bank.
12  The Prime Minister has, for the meantime, seen off the challenge of the opposition.
13  If the opposition party can hang together over the next six months, they might just stand a chance of being elected.
14  The opposition threatened a campaign of civil disobedience.
15  Too much opposition was set up against the government's plan to control wages and prices, so that they had to cease it.