How to Use reactionary in a Sentence

reactionary

adjective

• Who better to lead it than the princess of the reactionary right herself?
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 10 Nov. 2020
• The Clippers so far have been reactionary in the playoffs.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2021
• The demise of the style was spurred by a reactionary resurgence of Classicism.
  — Regina Cole, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2023
• Even worse, of course, are the decisions the reactionary bloc has handed down.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 2 May 2023
• Voting like that will put Los Angeles onto a path of reactionary Band-Aids that don’t let the wounds of the city heal.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2022
• That reactionary nature became clear to Frankel from the beginning of the process.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 19 Sep. 2022
• The Lakers have done a good job presenting a plan that’s not too reactionary to their competitors in the West.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
• Trump clearly juiced turnout among his base and brought in new reactionary voters.
  — Crystal D. Carter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2021
• In this new, reactionary Spain, artists and actors were banned from entering the Ritz, a norm that loosened only in the '90s.
  — Benjamin Kemper, Town & Country, 2 Sep. 2021
• Ever since the dawn of Jack White, artists who hunger to reassert the power of rock in a rockless age have tended to sound like reactionary young coots.
  — Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2021
• Democrats claim the effort is reactionary to their loss in the presidential election and the state’s two Senate seats.
  — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 26 Mar. 2021
• The revanchist canon this produces can be reactionary in its own way.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 25 July 2022
• This puts forecasters in more of a reactionary mode, waiting to see what pops on radar, and how those storms will behave over the next 30 to 60 minutes.
  — Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2021
• Much of his recipe inspiration comes from being reactionary and coming up with things in the spur of the moment.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 23 Apr. 2021
• But the more reactionary elements appear to have the upper hand.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
• These are readers of the reactionary right tradition that comes out of Europe.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 18 June 2024
• Many rap fans took to social media to bemoan the rise of reactionary figures in rap media.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
• Of course, a wide range of thinkers have rejected this view that ISIS’s violence is reactionary.
  — Sam Sweeney, National Review, 6 Sep. 2020
• Afraid the reactionary elements of her party still hold last year’s stay-at-home orders against her.
  — al, 16 July 2021
• And yet by the ’60s, Gage shows, Hoover’s reactionary instincts prevailed, and his actions helped to sow distrust of the federal government from both the right and the left.
  — Kai Bird, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2022
• This is a reactionary party built on both resentment and race.
  — ABC News, 9 May 2021
• Labor unions were reactionary in nature, a backlash against the progress of the Industrial Age.
  — Jacob Swartz, Orange County Register, 14 May 2024
• Your heart is moving in line with your mind, making your responses feel right rather than reactionary.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 12 Dec. 2020
• But, a decade later, during the most reactionary moments of the Trump era, Bell’s words seemed clarifying.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
• The reactionary zeal that drove Pinochet’s coup can be seen in various democracies around the world, including the United States.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
• Perhaps those of a reactionary nature will doubt Houston’s chances of meeting Atlanta in the Fall Classic.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 21 Apr. 2023
• Ballard is one of the least reactionary general managers out there.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Apr. 2022
• Or are we doomed for everything progressive to be met with reactionary forces?
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2023
• That reactionary status quo inspired Peck to look to country music’s past for inspiration.
  — Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
• But for Huntington, these reactionary laws don’t amount to legitimate policy.
  — Fabiola Cineas, Vox, 3 June 2024

Last Updated: 4 Sep 2024