How to Use demonstrator in a Sentence

demonstrator

noun
  • Thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets.
  • On Thursday, hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the courthouse in support of the program.
    Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Phoenix officers passed around coins and patches that portrayed a demonstrator wearing a gas mask getting shot with a pepper ball and contained a vulgar comment about his injury.
    Jacques Billeaud, The Arizona Republic, 20 Aug. 2021
  • But about 3,000 demonstrators, including tribal members, protested on the day of Trump’s action.
    James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
  • The demonstrators knew that messianist forces in the government have been hindering any diplomacy that might disrupt their annexationist aims.
    Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Throughout the weekend, violent clashes with counterprotesters left dozens injured and one woman dead, after a white nationalist demonstrator drove his car into a crowd.
    Deanna Paul, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2021
  • In her speech to the crowd, attorney and demonstrator Pratt Austin-Trucks, had words for Collins.
    al, 26 June 2022
  • Police stand in front of bus as demonstrators stand in front of building.
    Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 20 Sep. 2023
  • As attendees got out of their cars to head to the venue, some demonstrators started yelling at them.
    Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2024
  • The crowd of demonstrators stretched for several city blocks.
    Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Riot police faced off against demonstrators on the third night of protests across France.
    Matt Bradley, NBC News, 30 June 2023
  • No one is as far along as Boom in terms of having a near-flyable demonstrator.
    Tom Vanderbilt, Wired, 20 Dec. 2021
  • The crowd of about 30 demonstrators that gathered at the Boston Common park in late April had a message to share.
    Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 2 July 2024
  • Shots were fired, and the demonstrators retreated, only to return and set fire to the courthouse.
    R.j.m. Blackett, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Smith, who lived at the Rose City Terrace apartments across the street from the park, was shot in the hip by a demonstrator returning fire with a rifle.
    oregonlive, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The newspaper said the demonstrators declined to speak to a reporter.
    arkansasonline.com, 25 July 2024
  • In March, a Premier League soccer match was halted when a demonstrator tied himself to one of the goal posts.
    CNN, 5 July 2022
  • During a street protest in the village of Daih, a demonstrator is shot by police and dies the following day.
    CNN, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Foster was left bleeding in the street among his fellow demonstrators, who called for help.
    Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 10 May 2023
  • The prospect of hundreds of demonstrators outside the event apparently proved too much to bear.
    Nicole Sperling, New York Times, 11 May 2023
  • Photos from the Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and Gaza showed a small group of demonstrators holding signs with the faces of hostages.
    Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Sherman, 25, told a Times reporter that he was punched in the left eye by a pro-Palestinian demonstrator.
    Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
  • Bees that followed a demonstrator were also able to solve more puzzles than those that didn't.
    Devika Rao, The Week, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Thousands of demonstrators gathered in front of the White House on Saturday.
    Fritz Farrow, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2023
  • A number of weekend demonstrators appeared in the streets with Russian flags.
    Karen Deyoung and Dan Lamothe, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The vote to remove the two lawmakers, who are Black, caused an uproar in the state with demonstrators coming out to support the young politicians.
    Elise Hammond, CNN, 12 Apr. 2023
  • While a few demonstrators on both sides came face to face, the rallies were otherwise peaceful.
    David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2023
  • This demonstrator would be a fairly large payload for such a mission, about one-half of a metric ton.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Officers were seen escorting at least two of the demonstrators away from the park with their hands behind their backs.
    Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 24 May 2023
  • The death caused outrage in Kashmir and ignited a year of protest action that saw 120 demonstrators die.
    Time, 11 Oct. 2023

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