How to Use dissent in a Sentence

dissent

1 of 2 verb

• The Supreme Court, with two justices dissenting, ruled that the law was constitutional.
• The price of sovereignty rests on the backs of those who dissent.
  — New York Times, 17 Sep. 2021
• The bill passed the Senate and the House without a dissenting vote.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 7 Apr. 2023
• Kenya Gibson represents the school on the board and was the lone dissenting vote.
  — Christopher Carbone, Fox News, 19 June 2018
• The two dissenting justices said the ruling was too broad.
  — Rachel La Corte, The Seattle Times, 12 July 2019
• For the next decade, Holmes and Brandeis dissented in a steady stream of free speech cases.
  — John Fabian Witt, The New Republic, 1 Oct. 2019
• When the men leave to post bail, the dissenting women meet in a barn to discuss the options the bishop did not give them.
  — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 26 June 2019
• One of the three appeals court judges filed a dissenting opinion.
  — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• Leone, a dissenting voice on council, seeks a sixth term.
  — azcentral, 1 June 2018
• There was nothing in the prompt to suggest a dissenting view would be welcomed.
  — Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 3 July 2023
• Board member Joseph Mestnick is one of the dissenting votes.
  — Patrick O'Donnell, cleveland, 22 Sep. 2019
• That means the fate of the bill comes down to what appears to be a handful of dissenting Republicans.
  — Li Zhou, Vox, 12 Dec. 2018
• Misra met with the dissenting judges, who continued on the bench.
  — Ashok Sharma, Fox News, 28 Sep. 2018
• There were some dissenting opinions in the writer's room.
  — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 18 Oct. 2017
• The dissenting judge said that's just a crazy interpretation of the law.
  — Doug Criss, CNN, 7 June 2018
• The purchase passed, with District 2's Chris Kolb being the sole dissenting vote.
  — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 26 July 2023
• The judge agreed, although Eiland dissented and said one week should be enough time.
  — Rafael Carranza, The Arizona Republic, 20 July 2023
• Many of these dissenting groups shared central tenets among themselves and with Luther as well.
  — Marilynne Robinson, New Republic, 12 Dec. 2017
• His many speeches have gone along with the status quo at the time, even as many of his colleagues have dissented in word or vote.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2017
• In both of those instances, Anna Tovar, the sole Democrat, cast the lone dissenting vote.
  — The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024
• Few would dissent from the verdict of the late opera maven Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who said that there is no lovelier place to hear opera in the summer.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
• Goushi Kataoka, who joined the board in July, dissented on the policy rates.
  — Bloomberg.com, 21 Dec. 2017
• The deal was approved by an 86% vote by the union’s board members Friday, with some members like Sharma dissenting on the deal.
  — Krystie Lee Yandoli, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2023
• Council Member Jane Prince cast the sole dissenting vote.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 10 July 2019
• Crandell cast the dissenting vote on Young’s motion to table.
  — Lia Russell, Baltimore Sun, 7 Sep. 2023
• Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented from the court's decision not to hear the case.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 20 Feb. 2024
• Desmond and his colleague Joel Anderson were the dissenting votes.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2023
• The nine justices were hardly in agreement, as two of them dissented in full and another in part.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 14 May 2018
• The three of them dissented, in an opinion by Gorsuch, in a case last June brought by a married lesbian couple.
  — Joan Biskupic, CNN, 8 Oct. 2017
• Only two justices, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, dissented.
  — David Leonhardt, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024

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dissent

2 of 2 noun

• These dissents come from prominent scientists and should not be ignored.
• Church leaders permitted no dissent from church teachings.
• He did everything in his power to suppress political dissent.
• She argued in her dissent that Congress had exceeded its authority.
• This was not a dissent on the merits of the Texas claim.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2020
• Arms shot up in dissent, but only to get a rise out of the GM.
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2020
• There are murmurs of assent and dissent from the crowd.
  — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2022
• There is dissent, to be sure, and the pandemic is still present.
  — Elisabeth Eaves, Wired, 1 Oct. 2020
• But the dissent hasn’t only been contained to the walkout.
  — Whizy Kim, refinery29.com, 2 June 2020
• In a lengthy dissent, the chief judge of the 10th Circuit focused on compelled speech.
  — Charles J. Russo, The Conversation, 1 July 2023
• The no-call set Johnson off on a tantrum, and he was hit with a yellow card for dissent.
  — Andrew Joseph, For The Win, 13 May 2018
• That would put the onus on Boluarte to either resign or try to ride out the dissent.
  — Marcelo Rochabrun, Bloomberg.com, 10 Feb. 2023
• The school board’s deadline to file its dissent is July 1.
  — Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2022
• Today, more protests in Russia as dissent hits the streets.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2022
• The three-member board approved the increase on a voice vote with no dissent.
  — Mike Cason, AL.com, 14 June 2017
• Lucero, in his dissent, wondered if his colleagues watched the same video as him.
  — Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Oct. 2021
• The government has cracked down on dissent since protests swept the country.
  — Karina Zaiets, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2020
• Trump lost in the lower courts, and the Supreme Court turned down his appeal with only one dissent.
  — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
• Even in dissent, Justice Jackson’s voice will shape the law.
  — Imeime Umana, Vogue, 16 Aug. 2022
• Chaplin might have been made a symbol of the suppression of the right to free speech and dissent in the McCarthy era.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• Are things getting worse for the right of expression and dissent?
  — Alice Speri, The Intercept, 16 May 2017
• But chaos, player dissent and reports of mutiny is not a good look.
  — Tim Bannon, chicagotribune.com, 25 June 2018
• What is the state of free speech, dissent, and open inquiry on any given campus?
  — Greg Lukianoff, National Review, 1 July 2019
• None of the Trump appointees noted a dissent in either case.
  — Nomaan Merchant and Alanna Durkin Richer, baltimoresun.com, 12 Dec. 2020
• So there was a musical world, and also a world of dissent?
  — Dan Deluca, Philly.com, 29 June 2018
• There were no noted dissents to the decision not to review the law.
  — Robert Barnes, Anchorage Daily News, 1 May 2023
• Gil also compiled five cautions in 2019, his first year in the league, all for dissent.
  — Frank Dell'apa, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
• The court’s brief order gave no reasons, and there were no noted dissents.
  — Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024
• The attacks on Glazer also have a silencing effect on our industry, contributing to a broader climate of suppression of free speech and dissent, the very qualities our field should cherish.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 5 Apr. 2024
• Despite the dissent, the administration has maintained its military support for Israel’s campaign in Gaza, authorizing the transfer of thousands of bombs and other munitions since Oct. 7.
  — John Hudson, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024