How to Use dissident in a Sentence

dissident

adjective

• Their raspy and dissident squawks are quite out of tune.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
• Sorokin doesn’t fit the classic mold of a dissident writer.
  — New York Times, 16 Apr. 2022
• In 1999, O’Connor was ordained as a priest in a dissident Roman Catholic group.
  — Brianne Tracy, PEOPLE.com, 9 Sep. 2019
• Roy’s fall from darling to dissident was swift, and her landing rough.
  — Samanth Subramanian, The New Yorker, 12 June 2019
• Until it was handed over to China by the British in 1997, Hong Kong was a safe haven for dissident writers and artists.
  — Time, 13 June 2019
• Under the new agreement, the dissident group, founded in 2011, will dissolve and join the mainline Democrats.
  — Corinne Ramey, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2018
• Last November, more than 150 dissident church members voted to fire Welch and most of the church’s trustees.
  — Rafael Olmeda, sun-sentinel.com, 22 July 2021
• The takeover was messy, with a vote postponed three times as Rio sought to win support from dissident shareholders.
  — Thomas Biesheuvel, Dinesh Nair and Jack Farchy, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Jan. 2023
• The city's café culture has made a strong comeback (the communists had closed down the cafés, fearing a dissident breeding ground).
  — Rick Steves, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2019
• Why the arrests of artists such as dissident rapper Maykel Castillo?
  — Tracy Wilkinsonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2022
• Energy giant Exxon fought hard to fend off the dissident slate.
  — Justin Baer, WSJ, 28 May 2021
• Egan Jones recommended a vote for the dissident shareholders and the new board.
  — Erin Arvedlund, Philly.com, 23 May 2018
• Those efforts have fallen short of the demands of Exxon’s dissident investor groups.
  — Cathy Bussewitz, Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2021
• Those efforts have fallen short of the demands of Exxon's dissident investor groups.
  — Cathy Bussewitz, Chron, 25 May 2021
• Berta Soler, center, and other women from the dissident group Ladies in White march in Havana in 2012.
  — Mimi Whitefield, miamiherald, 14 June 2018
• At one point the dissident, who asked that his name be withheld for his safety, lost consciousness and had to be taken to the hospital.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2018
• His family, who live in the U.S., say Nguyen is innocent and not involved with any dissident groups.
  — Hillary Leung, Time, 11 June 2019
• Once the farmers cleared out too, about a century ago, the area became a haven for a certain kind of dissident thinker drawn to its remoteness.
  — Marisa Meltzer, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Apr. 2021
• The list includes members of dissident groups and a journalist.
  — Matthew Lee, The Seattle Times, 11 Dec. 2018
• In September 2021, a dissident board member called for the entire board to be replaced and for LaPierre’s removal.
  — Robert Spitzer, The Conversation, 24 Nov. 2021
• Hong Kong’s museum bowed to pressure to remove some of the work of dissident artist Ai Weiwei from its display.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 17 Mar. 2023
• My experiences in North Korea have taught me that the donju are the closest thing North Korea has to a dissident class.
  — Travis Jeppesen, WSJ, 1 June 2018
• A call for conformity around the country that exists — not the imaginary utopia some dissident faction seeks to build in its place.
  — J. J. McCullough, National Review, 28 Aug. 2017
• The Teamsters have faced challenges from dissident groups criticizing deals the union has reached.
  — Kelly Yamanouchi, ajc, 10 July 2018
• Since taking the helm in 2019, Welch came under fire from dissident church members and other critics.
  — David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2023
• And a dissident faction of FARC remains in the jungle nearby, taking in new recruits.
  — New York Times, 26 Sep. 2021
• Andrei Sakharov, the dissident and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, who at the time was a thirty-one-year-old nuclear-weapons researcher, recalled.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019
• Some now fear a return to the dark days of Abiy’s predecessors, when dissident bloggers were tortured.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
• Ali Al-Ahmed, a dissident Saudi scholar who kept in touch with Sahar, sent me a photograph of an apparatus that the sisters had jerry-rigged to distill fresh water from the sea, and one of a copper hook for catching fish and crabs.
  — Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
• The count does not include nonfatal attacks like the March wounding by knife of a journalist for a dissident satellite television channel outside his London apartment.
  — Karl Vick, TIME, 23 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024