How to Use dissident in a Sentence

dissident

adjective

• Their raspy and dissident squawks are quite out of tune.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
• Sorokin doesn’t fit the classic mold of a dissident writer.
  — New York Times, 16 Apr. 2022
• In 1999, O’Connor was ordained as a priest in a dissident Roman Catholic group.
  — Brianne Tracy, PEOPLE.com, 9 Sep. 2019
• Roy’s fall from darling to dissident was swift, and her landing rough.
  — Samanth Subramanian, The New Yorker, 12 June 2019
• Until it was handed over to China by the British in 1997, Hong Kong was a safe haven for dissident writers and artists.
  — Time, 13 June 2019
• Last November, more than 150 dissident church members voted to fire Welch and most of the church’s trustees.
  — Rafael Olmeda, sun-sentinel.com, 22 July 2021
• The takeover was messy, with a vote postponed three times as Rio sought to win support from dissident shareholders.
  — Thomas Biesheuvel, Dinesh Nair and Jack Farchy, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Jan. 2023
• The city's café culture has made a strong comeback (the communists had closed down the cafés, fearing a dissident breeding ground).
  — Rick Steves, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2019
• Why the arrests of artists such as dissident rapper Maykel Castillo?
  — Tracy Wilkinsonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2022
• Energy giant Exxon fought hard to fend off the dissident slate.
  — Justin Baer, WSJ, 28 May 2021
• Those efforts have fallen short of the demands of Exxon’s dissident investor groups.
  — Cathy Bussewitz, Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2021
• Those efforts have fallen short of the demands of Exxon's dissident investor groups.
  — Cathy Bussewitz, Chron, 25 May 2021
• Berta Soler, center, and other women from the dissident group Ladies in White march in Havana in 2012.
  — Mimi Whitefield, miamiherald, 14 June 2018
• His family, who live in the U.S., say Nguyen is innocent and not involved with any dissident groups.
  — Hillary Leung, Time, 11 June 2019
• Once the farmers cleared out too, about a century ago, the area became a haven for a certain kind of dissident thinker drawn to its remoteness.
  — Marisa Meltzer, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Apr. 2021
• The list includes members of dissident groups and a journalist.
  — Matthew Lee, The Seattle Times, 11 Dec. 2018
• In September 2021, a dissident board member called for the entire board to be replaced and for LaPierre’s removal.
  — Robert Spitzer, The Conversation, 24 Nov. 2021
• Hong Kong’s museum bowed to pressure to remove some of the work of dissident artist Ai Weiwei from its display.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 17 Mar. 2023
• The Teamsters have faced challenges from dissident groups criticizing deals the union has reached.
  — Kelly Yamanouchi, ajc, 10 July 2018
• Since taking the helm in 2019, Welch came under fire from dissident church members and other critics.
  — David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2023
• And a dissident faction of FARC remains in the jungle nearby, taking in new recruits.
  — New York Times, 26 Sep. 2021
• Andrei Sakharov, the dissident and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, who at the time was a thirty-one-year-old nuclear-weapons researcher, recalled.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019
• Some now fear a return to the dark days of Abiy’s predecessors, when dissident bloggers were tortured.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
• Activists on both sides of the Atlantic pushed for disarmament and even reached out to dissident groups in Warsaw Pact countries.
  — Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
• That man, dissident Miles Guo, was charged earlier this year in a billion-dollar fraud scheme in New York and remains detained.
  — Robert Legare, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2023
• Rasoulof’s friend, and fellow dissident director Jafar Panahi, was allowed to leave Iran last week to travel abroad, for the first time in 14 years.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 May 2023
• In addition to the election of two new independent directors, the votes over two others from the dissident slate were too close to call.
  — Arkansas Online, 27 May 2021
• At least one speaker at the event reportedly received tens of thousands of dollars from the dissident group.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 10 July 2023
• Oleg Orlov, 71; political dissident and human rights activist who was jailed for criticizing Russia and the Ukraine war.
  — George Petras, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2024
• Boric’s government believes that the group may be responsible for the kidnapping and murder, in February, of a Venezuelan former military officer turned dissident who had been granted asylum in Chile.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024