How to Use decry in a Sentence

decry

verb

• In her article, she decries the pollution of the environment by manufacturers.
• Violence on television is generally decried as harmful to children.
• Some decry the fatty nature of butter in general and the almighty devil, bad cholesterol.
  — Leanne Italie, Hartford Courant, 22 Oct. 2022
• But Parham also decries the official endorsements made by his own local party.
  — Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2024
• Some commenters opted to use the forum to decry a system where only those who can afford pricier seats are able to travel comfortably.
  — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2022
• Many conservatives took to social media to decry the alleged motive in Ellingson’s death.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2022
• Residents have been inundated with mail campaigns and ads from right-wing activists and organizers decrying the plants.
  — TIME, 30 July 2024
• Teachers, farmers and middle-class professionals have also taken to the streets to decry the state of the country’s economy and call for a change in government.
  — Benoit Faucon, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2022
• Players in less high-profile positions are even more vulnerable: their contracts are not guaranteed, and, in most cases, the public wouldn’t decry their disappearance.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2022
• Democrats have decried the far-right shift, calling Jordan the leader of the chaos wing of the GOP.
  — Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2023
• The move sparked backlash from Democrats, who decried the complaint as overblown.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
• In response to Drake fans decrying the game, Branson has the receipts to show his lack of bias.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2024
• In a social media post, a Black woman decried a group of Black men standing nearby on the street.
  — Claretta Bellamy, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2023
• This is what all those ads decrying Medicare for All felt like during the 2020 election.
  — Essence, 24 Oct. 2023
• White groups statewide decried the success of people of color.
  — Janet Wilson, ProPublica, 9 Nov. 2023
• Cops on the force also decried the decision in comments to the New York Post earlier this month.
  — Emma Colton, Fox News, 16 Mar. 2023
• At the time, the community held a vigil to decry the hateful messages.
  — Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2023
• Some decried the Hamas attack as terrorism, as has the United States.
  — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2023
• The measure, widely decried as racist and xenophobic, has yet to make it out of committee.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2023
• And still, not enough Latinos have gotten there — not for a lack of trying, either from them or the industry Rock decried.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024
• The festival had to move from Humboldt Park to Douglass Park in 2015 due to local furor, and now its new neighbors have decried the event as well.
  — Josh Chesler, Spin, 20 Sep. 2023
• The conference has also decried the deaths of civilians.
  — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 23 Mar. 2024
• Tell that to the conservative Catholic activists who are decrying the Dodgers.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
• Critics decry them as overreach and an affront to the Second Amendment.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2024
• Trump, who has decried the probes as political witch hunts, pleaded not guilty to all charges in both those cases.
  — Katherine Faulders, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2023
• Nossel lamented the timing of Gilbert’s announcement and the fact that those who decried its publication could not have had a chance to read it.
  — Time, 12 June 2023
• Zelenskyy used Sunday's final match of the soccer World Cup to decry war.
  — Arkansas Online, 19 Dec. 2022
• Twitch content creators took to social media to decry the changes.
  — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 7 June 2023
• Quentin Tarantino is the latest A-list director to decry what the streaming business is doing to the film industry.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 26 May 2023
• Allen, the real estate agent, decried the delays as petty grievances.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2024

Last Updated: 16 Sep 2024