How to Use the opposition in a Sentence

the opposition

noun

• So where does that leave the opposition after this war and the very prospect of peace?
  — Lulu Garcia-Navarro, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2024
• The glue for the opposition parties will not be so easy to find.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
• Koike has vowed to forge on even as the opposition continues to mount.
  — Matt Alt, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
• Lastly, the better the opposition, the greater our chances increase for the under.
  — Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2023
• The Americans, one of the worst teams in the league at outshooting the opposition, outshot them by 10.
  — Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive, 5 Mar. 2023
• In the end, Mr. González emerged as a candidate the government would not seek to block and who the opposition would support.
  — Isayen Herrera Adriana Loureiro Fernandez, New York Times, 6 May 2024
• The effort to curb the Supreme Court is also considered by many in the opposition as an act of revenge by the settlers.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 23 July 2023
• Because the dictatorship sees both the anthem and the flag as symbols of the opposition.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 8 Mar. 2023
• In the case of climate policy, Burke said the opposition party had walked into the trap.
  — Mark Landler, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2023
• At the time, the opposition politician was also serving a nine-year sentence on fraud and contempt of court charges.
  — Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
• Charlotte is built to run, tasked with getting up and down the court to keep the opposition from setting up its halfcourt defense.
  — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 15 Feb. 2024
• And his aides remain convinced that Putin ordered the killing of the opposition leader, a claim the Kremlin denies.
  — Sebastian Shukla, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024
• But for her involvement in the opposition, Ruiz-Pino faced death threats and was forced to relocate to Europe.
  — Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
• The alliance has held fund-raisers to raise money for the opposition campaign.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2023
• But even the head of the opposition, former Prime Minister Yair Lapid, rejected the move.
  — Josef Federman, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Apr. 2024
• And then the opposition hired a crisis PR firm from D.C. that grabbed at the lowest-hanging fruit to try to diminish the woman leader.
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2023
• The Warsaw city government, which is controlled by the opposition, put the crowd at a million people at its peak.
  — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
• And many younger Taiwanese tend to see the opposition Nationalists as a party too caught in the past and too attached to China.
  — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2023
• Before the earthquake, the opposition parties had struggled to present a united front against him and were not expected to do well in the elections.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 16 Feb. 2023
• In 2000, Ariel Sharon, as the head of the opposition, entered the holy compound, helping to spark the second Palestinian intifada.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• The parliament set a new December election date, but members of the opposition challenged it in court, and the new date was scuttled.
  — Ayen Deng Bior, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Mar. 2024
• The junior from Valparaiso is often tasked with guarding the opposition's best offensive player the entire length of the court.
  — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Mar. 2023
• And while much of the opposition has centered on a process critics have described as rushed, to Thomas, a sense of urgency feels appropriate.
  — Michael Brice-Saddler, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
• Gálvez, the opposition candidate, mocked the turmoil, inviting Ebrard to join her movement.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• Venus’ journey in Scorpio this year is expected to bring intense emotions due to the opposition with Jupiter in Taurus.
  — Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 5 Dec. 2023
• Hun Sen, 70, has ruled Cambodia for nearly four decades, with an increasingly heavy hand in recent years that has all but wiped out the opposition.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 24 July 2023
• Technology may be on Meredith’s side, though the opposition has the numbers.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2023
• Winning 13 out of 16 NBA games is impressive no matter the opposition.
  — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2024
• The second option looks more likely at this point, given the growing fervor surrounding the opposition candidate and the fact that the election is still 12 weeks away.
  — Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 6 May 2024
• Instead of using the expulsion to get rid of a member who was accepting bribes, for example, it was used to silence the opposition.
  — Liz Goodwin and Matthew Brown, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024