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.
• Others decry that the move-over isn’t explicitly called out in one of the rules or stated as a fifth rule.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
• Jackson also took to Twitter to decry his fumbles in a message full of expletives.
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2021
• Neighboring landowners sometimes decry the aesthetic changes on the land.
  — Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Oct. 2021
• Many talking heads have taken to the airwaves to decry what appears to be irrational behavior on the part of ivermectin enthusiasts.
  — Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 29 Aug. 2021
• Nelson doesn’t disavow the current ideology of the left, but does decry its absolutism as a flattening of the discussion that prevents us from seeing ideas all the way through.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2021
• Opponents, including many longtime city residents, have decried plans to build apartment towers on waterfront reserved for public use.
  — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 15 Nov. 2024
• Opponents decry the formation of another unelected body that would govern public dollars.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Sep. 2021
• Meanwhile, some critics decry not only modern investing platforms, but also the people who use them, suggesting that new investors are uninformed gamblers looking to get rich quick.
  — Vlad Tenev, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2021
• Democrats are pushing ahead on their own because Republicans decry the proposal as a step toward socialism that will worsen inflation and strain the economy.
  — Collin Binkley and Lisa Mascaro, ajc, 27 Sep. 2021
• This Saturday’s gathering is to decry the arrests of more than 600 people who breached the Capitol on Jan. 6.
  — Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2021
• 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
• Heretic marks the first time that a film has specifically decried AI use.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 5 Nov. 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
• While some purists decry the prequels and never-ending spinoffs, Sansweet doesn’t see it that way.
  — Chase Difeliciantonio, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Nov. 2021
• 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

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024