How to Use argue in a Sentence

argue

verb
  • She argued against the proposed law.
  • No one can argue me out of doing this.
  • He's always willing to argue for what is right.
  • He argued that it's far too early to make a decision.
  • She argued that the proposed law should be defeated.
  • She would argue with anyone.
  • The senator argued in favor of lowering taxes.
  • They started arguing about politics.
  • All of which sounds hard to argue with, no matter how many times a cat has shredded your draperies.
    Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 21 Feb. 2023
  • By their very nature, the hearings require clubs to argue that their own players are worse than perceived.
    The Arizona Republic, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Family lore also held that one thing that the Blacks did at college was learn to argue with leftists.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Some argue that the pandemic killed the demand for services and spiked the demand for goods as people could not leave their homes.
    Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Proponents argued that the measure encouraged fairness by putting the mayor on four-year terms like the rest of the city council.
    Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Each model offered an answer and, over the course of multiple rounds, defended its own answer and argued against the other.
    Stephen Ornes, Quanta Magazine, 8 Nov. 2024
  • In any case, to argue, as Paul and others have done, that Rowling has never made a transphobic statement in her life is absurd.
    Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Eichner argued that building what zoning allowed would mean a market-rate development — that is, condos.
    Kim Velsey, Curbed, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Banning euthanasia, advocates argue, prevents those who are physically unable to end their own lives from doing so.
    The Week, theweek, 10 Nov. 2024
  • Although courts have often sided with the end users in right-to-repair cases, large companies have vast legal and lobbying resources to argue for stricter patent protections.
    The Conversation, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Microsoft has a chance to argue its case to buy Activision in front of the European Union’s antitrust authorities.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Freeze argued that Koehl tried to leave, but Breen didn’t allow it.
    David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The Heat would argue, though, Rozier hasn’t taken enough shots.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Ever since, the right wing of the Catholic Church has argued that the Dodgers’ stance is something all good Christian soldiers must fight.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
  • Some have argued the world should have paid more attention to Ogoina’s findings from 2017.
    Byjon Cohen, science.org, 16 Aug. 2024
  • This is not to argue that Brown should, or will, divest from these companies.
    Scott Warren, TIME, 3 May 2024
  • The man can be seen arguing with the mob while officers try to keep the groups separated.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 11 Nov. 2023
  • The lawmakers argued that the same law should apply to the software companies.
    Julie Zauzmer Weil, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
  • Some argue that a status vote is a waste of time because Congress will never act.
    Christina D. Ponsa-Kraus / Made By History, TIME, 11 Oct. 2024
  • The archdiocese argued that Holzman and others did not have the right to sell the nunnery, however.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The ruling allowed Kizer to argue she was justified in the killing.
    Amy Simonson, CNN, 19 Aug. 2024
  • Birnbach argues that the Blazers should possibly keep the pick. - What type of trade value might the No. 3 pick carry?
    Afentres, oregonlive, 17 May 2023

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