How to Use subvert in a Sentence

subvert

verb

• They conspired to subvert the government.
• Nash subverts the form of the slasher movie but not the content.
  — A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 31 May 2024
• And the heist crew looks for ways to subvert that system.
  — Neil J. Rubenking, PCMAG, 12 Aug. 2022
• Just the latest in Putin’s long campaign to subvert democracy and the rule of law.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 Mar. 2024
• The idea was to subvert the type of music the viewer might associate with her.
  — Lily Moayeri, Variety, 16 June 2022
• So far, Trump's efforts to subvert the 2020 election have all failed.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 18 Jan. 2022
• Honor the results of our elections, not subvert the will of the people.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 8 Feb. 2023
• The lawsuits stemming from the ban would also subvert due process, Peeples wrote.
  — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2021
• The project aims to subvert familiar horror tropes in its take on the cabin-in-the-woods subgenre.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024
• Language has the power to uplift and transform or break down and subvert.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
• Then, there were elements that in some way pay an homage, but subvert it a little bit.
  — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 June 2022
• And yet there is a sub-section of stylish dressers who subvert the rules in more subtle ways: Enter the theme rejectors.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2021
• Navarro has been very public about his attempts to work with the Trump campaign to subvert the 2020 election.
  — Annie Grayer, CNN, 6 Apr. 2022
• The land of tartan, kilts, and Harris tweed might have inspired the design but here these codes are subverted.
  — Gemma A. Williams, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
• Each one of them shocked and thrilled me and subverted my expectations.
  — James Gray, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2023
• From slang to the spirituals of the church, Hurston traces the lineage of Black culture and its power to subvert white supremacy.
  — Arielle Gray, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Jan. 2022
• The powers of secretaries of state to subvert elections vary from state to state and are largely untested in court.
  — New York Times, 30 Jan. 2022
• In state after state, new laws have been passed, not only to suppress the vote, but to subvert entire elections.
  — Detroit Free Press, 2 Mar. 2022
• Some of the leading fall trends of the moment include items that subvert the seasonal classics.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2022
• Trump’s multipronged attempts to subvert the outcome of the electoral vote.
  — Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2021
• Not on the ballot, but top of mind, is how to keep elections safe and secure in a state that was central to efforts to subvert the will of voters after the 2020 race.
  — Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 16 Oct. 2024
• Many hosts arrive on SNL eager to subvert their public persona and show their comedic range.
  — Esther Zuckerman, The Atlantic, 19 Nov. 2023
• Many have been successfully subverted by these tactics and don’t see the threat to the preservation of our way of life.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 30 July 2024
• Oat flour is the Phoebe Waller-Bridge of gluten-free flours: easy to love, endlessly adaptable, and subverting old ideas of what feels possible.
  — Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appétit, 15 Mar. 2024
• Our aim is to subvert it, to ensure no one is ever able to unlock and thus abuse this technology.
  — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 12 Feb. 2024
• As the plan became public, it was widely ridiculed by legal scholars as a futile attempt to subvert the will of the voters.
  — New York Times, 28 Jan. 2022
• To me, true work worth doing is work that can subvert expectations.
  — Heide Janssen, Orange County Register, 21 Apr. 2024
• The collection is arranged to subvert genre boundaries, almost the way a hip-hop mixtape might strike the listener.
  — Joshunda Sanders, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2023
• In some cases, the bathroom is used to subvert expectations about a restaurant.
  — Priya Krishna, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2022
• Director Phillips, 53, who also made the first Joker, has spoken in various interviews about taking risks with the sequel and subverting expectations.
  — Jen Juneau, People.com, 14 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024