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.
• 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
• But perhaps the loudest voice was that of parents, who took to social media to decry the images from the football game.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2022
• 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
• Some decry the fatty nature of butter in general and the almighty devil, bad cholesterol.
  — Leanne Italie, Hartford Courant, 22 Oct. 2022
• Trump decried Biden’s vaccine mandates and pointed out more people died of covid under Biden’s watch.
  — Dan Diamond, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
• This is the same crowd who for years have extolled the virtues of Ayn Rand and decried any sort of help for the likes of student loan borrowers but then called for collectivism when their friends are in trouble.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 14 Mar. 2023
• The song decries the rich and powerful who exploit working classes.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2023
• The spread has sparked a push from local and federal officials, along with some politicians, who have decried the spread of misinformation and outlandish claims about the origins of the storms.
  — NBC News, 12 Oct. 2024
• Walz and Vance are both fathers, which could yield a conversation about gender-affirming care for youth (which Walz has championed and Vance has, unsurprisingly, decried).
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 26 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024