How to Use denounce in a Sentence

denounce

verb
  • In 2020, the group publicly denounced the racist beliefs of its founder John Muir.
    Justin Worland, Time, 21 June 2023
  • The lynching was denounced by Finney in the newspaper as a heinous act that the city should not ignore.
    Timothy Bella, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2023
  • At the time, Rogers denounced efforts by Trump to overturn the election.
    Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Stalin was dead and had been denounced by Khrushchev the previous year.
    Christian Auty, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The former president has denounced and pleaded not guilty to each of the charges in the indictments.
    Jack Birle, Washington Examiner, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Lawrence Schnapf, a lawyer for the foundation, denounced Biden’s action.
    Peter Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2023
  • Wine ran in the 2021 election and used his music to denounce Museveni’s regime.
    Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The White House denounced Musk’s language in a statement Monday.
    Rebecca Picciotto, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2024
  • It’s so much easier to denounce a villain after it’s too late than to step in first.
    Holly Thomas, CNN, 20 Jan. 2023
  • These videos denounce the consumerist culture inherent to the app.
    Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2023
  • In a statement, the groups that brought the foie-gras case denounced both that decision and the Supreme Court’s non-decision in the foie-gras debacle.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 24 May 2023
  • Ariana Grande and Gabrielle Union are among the ones who signed an open letter denouncing book bans.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Both candidates focused on Trump, as Kaine tried to denounce him and Pence tried to defend him.
    Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Back then, at least some GOP politicians publicly denounced him.
    Steven P. Grossman, Baltimore Sun, 13 June 2024
  • Some of Yager’s colleagues moved quickly to denounce the paper.
    Katie Engelhart, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Holland has been denounced by the country’s ruling party and received a litany of death threats.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2024
  • Perry says there isn’t much either can do about it, except denounce the plans publicly.
    Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Groups of protestors staged rallies in front of the House of Representatives in the past week to denounce the fund’s creation.
    Time, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Trump has denied all charges and denounced the probe as a political witch hunt.
    Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 4 Apr. 2024
  • While Majors has yet to speak out on the arrest, his representatives have denounced the charges brought against him.
    Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2023
  • His claims were later denounced by those in the AI community.
    Theara Coleman, The Week, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Last year, killing wasps with a cup of gasoline was big on TikTok and denounced as wildly dangerous.
    Jason Nark, Hartford Courant, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Over the course of Monday night, dozens paid tribute to the victims of last year’s attack in Gaza while denouncing antisemitism.
    Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Walz didn’t mince words denouncing Trump’s actions and Vance’s defense.
    Kizzy Cox, Essence, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Some accuse their schools of not doing enough to denounce antisemitism and others that the schools ignore the plight of Gazans under Israeli fire.
    Gabriella Borter, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The proposal has drawn widespread outrage in the Arab world and has been denounced by Palestinian leaders.
    NBC News, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Some senators have also used the forum to denounce the role of private equity in health care.
    Peter Sullivan, Axios, 25 July 2024
  • Others on social media, Newsweek found, denounced the timing of the overseas trip itself.
    James Bickerton, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
  • And with England’s place on the world stage under threat from a Spanish invasion and rioters taking to the streets to denounce the King, the stakes could not have been higher.
    Town & Country, 9 July 2023
  • Some who received the papers have questioned why the Catholic Church has not been more forceful in denouncing lies and hateful rhetoric in the publication, which includes assertions that Democrats are responsible for the Trump assassination attempts.
    Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 20 Oct. 2024

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