How to Use animal rights in a Sentence

animal rights

plural noun
  • In the sequel, Elle takes her talents to the White House in the name of animal rights.
    Kathryn Lindsay, refinery29.com, 20 May 2020
  • But soon, the minks escaped from these farms, and some were freed by animal rights activists in the 1990s.
    Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The young say the pandemic has attuned them to their health and even to animal rights.
    The Economist, 23 Jan. 2021
  • But if there’s one cause that has most endeared her to her fans, it’s animal rights.
    Allison W. Entrekin, USA TODAY, 23 May 2020
  • Lee Chae-yeon, a 22-year-old student, told the BBC, the ban was needed to promote animal rights.
    Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Her passion for animal rights can be traced back to law school.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 17 Apr. 2020
  • The zoo closed after protests from animal rights groups.
    Martin E. Comas, Orlando Sentinel, 24 June 2024
  • No doubt, the shift in attitudes about animal rights is in part the product of the delight that such glimpses award us.
    Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022
  • In the Facebook post, the park claimed it had been targeted by animal rights groups.
    Gregory Wallace, CNN, 19 Aug. 2020
  • As the show aged, so did the anger from animal rights groups and activists who frowned on the treatment of the performer animals.
    Marisa Dellatto, Forbes, 18 May 2022
  • That’s what draws the crowds and the occasional group of animal rights activists.
    New York Times, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The singer turned heads on the red carpet in her meat dress – and spurred questions and backlash from animal rights activists.
    Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The decades long effort by animal rights groups to derail the monkey trade has made some impact.
    Anna Schecter, NBC News, 17 Dec. 2022
  • Sarah Kite, co-founder of the animal rights group Action for Primates, applauded the charges.
    Anna Schecter, NBC News, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Reuters/Jorge Silva For champions of animal rights, the last five years have been good ones.
    Chase Purdy, Quartz, 13 Feb. 2020
  • But animal rights groups say commerce is not the answer.
    Ines Novacic, CBS News, 7 June 2019
  • Noah next addressed the animal rights protestors that stormed the stage.
    Katherine Schaffstall, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Last year, animal rights activists tried to unfold a banner amid the crowd.
    Michelle Gant, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2018
  • The culling has sparked outrage among animal rights activists.
    Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Fired from her firm, a young Boston lawyer heads to Washington, D.C., to fight for animal rights.
    Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • When a photo emerged showing the hunters posing with the carcass of one of the adults that had been killed — a male named Pepe — animal rights activists howled.
    Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2021
  • The heat could add to ethical concerns from animal rights groups about the dangers of horse racing.
    Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 20 May 2022
  • Reed has been praised by animal rights groups for putting the interest of his horse first and not running him two weeks later in the Preakness.
    John Cherwaspecial Contributor, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2022
  • Meghan is a keen animal rights campaigner and doesn’t like hunting in any form.
    Halie Lesavage, Glamour, 17 Aug. 2019
  • But animal rights groups have been adamantly opposed to mass culling.
    Trisha Thomas, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2021
  • The girl is both caretaker and best friend, but she and the mule are soon torn apart when animal rights activists protest the circus and EO is shipped off to a nearby horse farm.
    Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 May 2022
  • Wise has spent the past few decades trying to rewire the way Americans conceive of animal rights.
    Molly Young, Curbed, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Meghan Markle is, among other things, a proud animal rights activist.
    Katherine J Igoe, Marie Claire, 16 Aug. 2019
  • The pushback is part of a larger trend of animal rights activists who have called for an end to many kinds of testing on animals.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Similarly, states that did the most to protect animal rights also did the most to protect and expand human rights.
    Sigal Samuel, Vox, 3 Dec. 2024

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