How to Use counterprotest in a Sentence

counterprotest

noun
  • No arrests were reported, and there was no sign of a counterprotest.
    Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The counterprotest is expected to be smaller than the Women’s March.
    Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2020
  • But an even larger number of locals turned out for a counterprotest.
    Clay Risen, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Dec. 2021
  • It was met by a counterprotest from a small band of transgender rights campaigners, Reuters video showed.
    Amy Cassidy, CNN, 10 Apr. 2024
  • So, another group that included Leete, took to the rally in a counterprotest, according to the Post.
    NBC News, 17 July 2021
  • Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who has been arrested in connection to the shooting in Kenosha, was part of an armed counterprotest during the riots.
    Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 1 Sep. 2020
  • At a counterprotest the following morning, James Alex Fields Jr. rammed a car into a crowd, killing one person and injuring 35.
    Shane Harris, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Sunday’s counterprotest was a rare instance of public pushback over the convoy.
    Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Last month, Kleinhenz helped organize a counterprotest to a group outside city hall demanding the city defund the police.
    Emily Wilder, The Arizona Republic, 25 July 2020
  • There have been hundreds of protests and counterprotests on college campuses, with some of them turning violent.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The reason the mayor needs a view on the war in Gaza is that its aftershocks play out on London’s streets—in protests and counterprotests, in rising antisemitism and Islamophobia.
    Peter Guest, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Another group, which included Leete, soon showed up in a counterprotest, and Leete delivered her address.
    NBC News, 22 July 2021
  • As some in the rally caravanned by car to Salem, the state capital, the Proud Boys joined a group of right-wing demonstrators who rushed across a street and began attacking people who had set up a leftist counterprotest.
    Alan Feuer, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2020
  • In Tel Aviv, thousands of pro-government marchers gathered in a counterprotest Sunday, attempting to block a major highway.
    Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 23 July 2023
  • The counterprotest was organized by Power Up Manchester after students at the high school sought help in organizing a response to the rally.
    Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 15 Aug. 2020
  • The ranks of protesters had grown to what police said were 4,000 demonstrators by Saturday, and a counterprotest of frustrated Ottawa residents attempting to block the convoy of trucks from entering the downtown emerged Sunday.
    Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 14 Feb. 2022
  • The spate of resignations came after a fellow emergency response team officer was put on leave after following a counterprotest to a Proud Boys rally that never occurred.
    Carly Ortiz-Lytle, Washington Examiner, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Police were investigating whether the car was affiliated with a nearby counterprotest, the officials said.
    Ben Chapman, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020

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