How to Use reactionary in a Sentence

reactionary

adjective

• Who better to lead it than the princess of the reactionary right herself?
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 10 Nov. 2020
• The reactionary sentiment of the past decade seems less like an uptick than a storm surge.
  — Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 12 July 2018
• The Clippers so far have been reactionary in the playoffs.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2021
• The demise of the style was spurred by a reactionary resurgence of Classicism.
  — Regina Cole, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2023
• And, frankly, a level of patience that would make Job look reactionary, to do it.
  — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland, 8 Jan. 2020
• Already in the 1950s this reactionary politics had secured a niche on the right wing of the GOP.
  — Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
• In a mass of players, the Wolverines fired a reactionary shot that looked destined to score.
  — Matt Nevala, Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2018
• Even worse, of course, are the decisions the reactionary bloc has handed down.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 2 May 2023
• The police and the courts are really set up to be reactionary, not proactive.
  — Jennifer Emily, Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2019
• This is about the same old reactionary politics of spite and self-defeat.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 16 Apr. 2020
• Voting like that will put Los Angeles onto a path of reactionary Band-Aids that don’t let the wounds of the city heal.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2022
• That reactionary nature became clear to Frankel from the beginning of the process.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 19 Sep. 2022
• There wasn’t much in the reactionary ’80s or self-satisfied ’90s.
  — John Timpane, Philly.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• The road ahead Benner’s final caution for Pacers fans was this: don’t get too reactionary in the day-to-day ebb and flow of Oladipo’s health.
  — Nathan Brown, Indianapolis Star, 26 Jan. 2020
• The Lakers have done a good job presenting a plan that’s not too reactionary to their competitors in the West.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
• Trump clearly juiced turnout among his base and brought in new reactionary voters.
  — Crystal D. Carter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2021
• In this new, reactionary Spain, artists and actors were banned from entering the Ritz, a norm that loosened only in the '90s.
  — Benjamin Kemper, Town & Country, 2 Sep. 2021
• But a few good votes that are close to my heart do not blind my eyes to a fundamentally reactionary record.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 6 July 2018
• Ever since the dawn of Jack White, artists who hunger to reassert the power of rock in a rockless age have tended to sound like reactionary young coots.
  — Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2021
• Democrats claim the effort is reactionary to their loss in the presidential election and the state’s two Senate seats.
  — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 26 Mar. 2021
• The revanchist canon this produces can be reactionary in its own way.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 25 July 2022
• But Warren's push is more than just a reactionary move, there's some data behind it as well.
  — Ali Vitali, NBC News, 3 Feb. 2020
• This puts forecasters in more of a reactionary mode, waiting to see what pops on radar, and how those storms will behave over the next 30 to 60 minutes.
  — Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2021
• Much of his recipe inspiration comes from being reactionary and coming up with things in the spur of the moment.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 23 Apr. 2021
• For decades, the opinion pages were safe spaces for white, reactionary writers.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 10 June 2020
• But the more reactionary elements appear to have the upper hand.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
• Imagine the nightmare that presents for a defense, which must go into full reactionary mode against this.
  — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 13 June 2018
• The reactionary influence of these ideas doesn't stop at dating, though.
  — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 21 Jan. 2020
• This is not necessarily the Jets’ brass being reactionary to Sunday’s loss.
  — Vincent Frank, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
• Shifting the work paradigm from being reactionary to being proactive will change your work experience from stressful to joyful.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024