How to Use dissenter in a Sentence

dissenter

noun

• Roberts has turned in only a minor decision in which there were no dissenters.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 3 May 2018
• Keizer Police Chief John Teague was the lone dissenter on the board.
  — Maxine Bernstein, OregonLive.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• For all of this, King became that much more of a hero to freedom fighters and dissenters across many continents.
  — Jason Sokol, Time, 4 Apr. 2018
• Supervisor Greg Cox was the lone dissenter in the 3-1 vote.
  — Chris Lindahl, Ramona Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2018
• Kim voted for the resolution; Breed, who supports the bill’s intent, was among the dissenters.
  — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2018
• The dissenters said such examples of corporate immunity were beside the point.
  — Jess Bravin, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2018
• Like in '07, when 15 considered Russell the top option, compared to three dissenters.
  — Jacob Feldman, SI.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• Blum’s book is especially valuable in rebutting the dwindling few who still believe the Rosenberg case was about the government seeking to curb the civil liberties of dissenters.
  — Ronald Radosh, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2018
• The vote was 6-1, with Travis Hoban the lone dissenter.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020
• The vote was 8–1; the lone dissenter was Clarence Thomas.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2022
• Tommy May, vice chair of the board, was the lone dissenter in the vote.
  — Will Langhorne, Arkansas Online, 21 Jan. 2023
• Here’s what the dissenters had to say about their votes.
  — Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2023
• Justice Clarence Thomas was the sole dissenter in the case.
  — Jaida Joyner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 June 2024
• Justice Sharon Kennedy was the lone dissenter in the case.
  — cleveland, 10 June 2020
• Roberts was one of the dissenters in the 5 to 3 decision.
  — Robert Barnes, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2019
• The dissenters said the suit should have been dismissed.
  — Lindsay Whitehurst, Fortune, 10 May 2024
• Needless to say, the two dissenters, Chris Christie and Asa Hutchinson, have no chance.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2023
• Justices Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas were the dissenters in the 7-2 ruling.
  — WSJ, 28 June 2019
• This has not left much oxygen in the room for dissenters—publicly, at least.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 6 Sep. 2018
• The motion was approved on a 4-1 vote, with Fletcher the lone dissenter.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2020
• Trustee Gary Feest was the lone dissenter, and one of only two board members to speak before the vote.
  — Rick Romell, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 June 2018
• But that is not always the case, and Kavanaugh plus the dissenters in the Ray case would have been enough to force the outcome in the Murphy case.
  — Robert Barnes, The Seattle Times, 30 Mar. 2019
• The school board voted 4-1 to hire Fowler; member Kermit Kendrick was the lone dissenter.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al, 28 Apr. 2021
• Kavanaugh was a dissenter in that case, in which Roberts was joined by the court’s liberals.
  — Robert Barnes, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Oct. 2020
• Arthur and Parrish-Wright were the only dissenters of the contract for the captains and lieutenants.
  — Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 26 Apr. 2024
• But there were some dissenters, notably A. O. Scott, the Times critic.
  — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
• Today, Maersk is one of the dissenters on the move to slow steaming even further.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 11 Nov. 2019
• The council voted 10 to 1 in favor of the ordinance last month, with Bonin as the lone dissenter.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 3 Aug. 2022
• Boards are barred from retaliating against dissenters through the filing of defamation lawsuits.
  — David Fleshler, Sun Sentinel, 14 June 2024
• And yet Surrealism, like the Roman Empire or Amazon, had an extraordinary knack for absorbing its dissenters.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024