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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Some of Yager’s colleagues moved quickly to denounce the paper.
    Katie Engelhart, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Trump has denied all charges and denounced the probe as a political witch hunt.
    Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 4 Apr. 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
  • 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
  • Rivera denounced the incident at Haxhiaj’s home and said that’s something that should not be part of how the political fight plays out.
    Sean Cotter, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Cruz has denounced the criminal cases as a weaponization of the justice system.
    Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Standing on the back of a truck and speaking into a bullhorn, Gaetz led demonstrators in denouncing the recount.
    Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
  • In other posts, Chaudry denounced the cruelty of the violence of Israel’s attacks in Gaza.
    Katie Shepherd, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
  • During the first week of the trial, dozens gathered in the cold, chanting through bullhorns and marching with Honduran flags and homemade signs denouncing Mr. Hernández.
    Wesley Parnell, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The kidnapping was denounced by church leaders in Haiti, who demanded the government do more to stop the scourge of kidnappings by armed gangs, as well as Pope Francis.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Trump, who has denied all wrongdoing, has denounced Smith's probe as a political witch hunt.
    John Santucci, ABC News, 20 July 2023
  • Putin denounced the West’s sanctions campaign on Wednesday at an economic summit held in South Africa.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 24 Aug. 2023
  • But McCarthy has repeatedly denounced those accusations and has said Gaetz worked to oust the former speaker because of the ethics probe.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 1 Feb. 2024
  • They were led in chants denouncing genocide and asking for sanctions against Azerbaijan.
    Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • And those claims have long been part of clips and compilations on YouTube and social media platforms that are denouncing Schneider as the creator and showrunner of those series.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Mar. 2024
  • If so, that’s clearly a despicable double standard, an outrage that needs to be denounced.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The governments of many Muslim countries have fiercely denounced Denmark and Sweden for allowing the burning of Qurans.
    Aaron Boxerman, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Trump has denounced the investigation saying he was entitled to take the records.
    Rachel Looker, USA TODAY, 9 June 2023
  • Thousands of supporters of the coup marched through the streets of Niamey, the Nigerien capital, on July 30, denouncing the former colonial power and setting the door of the French embassy on fire.
    Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The actors’ attorney, Solomon Gresen, denounced the decision and said there are plans to file another version of the suit in federal court.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 26 May 2023
  • But the memo was withdrawn and the nation’s top law enforcement officials have repeatedly denounced it.
    Angelo Fichera, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2023

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