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
• There was the opposition of a house open to the world, to a house that was completely shut down.
  — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2024
• Min Aung Hlaing knows that that city has fallen into the hands of the opposition.
  — Helen Regan, CNN, 2 Aug. 2024
• Koike has vowed to forge on even as the opposition continues to mount.
  — Matt Alt, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
• The next step in this story will depend on how the government and the opposition play their new hands.
  — Juan Pablo Spinetto, The Mercury News, 31 July 2024
• Lastly, the better the opposition, the greater our chances increase for the under.
  — Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2023
• Part of the opposition to the restoration was also that the green spaces would be closed to public access for a while.
  — Kiersten Hacker, Baltimore Sun, 4 July 2024
• 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 same would be true for the opposition if Borowsky clinched the mayoral position after the council vote was split.
  — Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 8 July 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
• Machado said Monday that the threat of arrest would only help to unite the opposition.
  — Mauricio Torres and Abel Alvarado, CNN, 2 Sep. 2024
• 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
• What better way to dismiss or delegitimize the heretics than to smear them as covert members of the opposition?
  — Pamela Paul, The Mercury News, 29 June 2024
• 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
• Lettieri from the opposition and Casares from the status quo group both fit that description.
  — Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 8 July 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
• South Taiwan is a DPP stronghold, but not everyone in the south agrees that the opposition parties are the problem.
  — Eryk Michael Smith, Fox News, 4 May 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
• No question, Justin Herbert can make the opposition look bad.
  — Elliott Teaford, Orange County Register, 16 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Once the opposition is defeated, Thee Stallion heads down to greet the football warriors and cracks open a cold Pepsi.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 5 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Oct 2024