How to Use decry in a Sentence

decry

verb
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  • In her article, she decries the pollution of the environment by manufacturers.
  • Violence on television is generally decried as harmful to children.
  • Democrats have decried the far-right shift, calling Jordan the leader of the chaos wing of the GOP.
    — Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The move sparked backlash from Democrats, who decried the complaint as overblown.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
  • In response to Drake fans decrying the game, Branson has the receipts to show his lack of bias.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2024
  • Some Parler users decry the blocking of hate speech as a sellout to Big Tech.
    — Washington Post, 17 May 2021
  • Heretic marks the first time that a film has specifically decried AI use.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Dozens of residents contacted the city to decry the event.
    — al, 18 July 2021
  • The photo, showing bulbs and roots attached, prompted a member of the private group to decry the way they were pulled.
    — Leanne Italie, chicagotribune.com, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Others decry that the move-over isn’t explicitly called out in one of the rules or stated as a fifth rule.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Haley went on Newsmax to decry the track-and-field athlete who turned her back on the American flag.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 6 July 2021
  • In a social media post, a Black woman decried a group of Black men standing nearby on the street.
    — Claretta Bellamy, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2023
  • While some purists decry the prequels and never-ending spinoffs, Sansweet doesn’t see it that way.
    — Chase Difeliciantonio, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Nov. 2021
  • This is what all those ads decrying Medicare for All felt like during the 2020 election.
    — Essence, 24 Oct. 2023
  • White groups statewide decried the success of people of color.
    — Janet Wilson, ProPublica, 9 Nov. 2023
  • But perhaps the loudest voice was that of parents, who took to social media to decry the images from the football game.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Cops on the force also decried the decision in comments to the New York Post earlier this month.
    — Emma Colton, Fox News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Take the United States’ persistent trade deficit with Germany, which Trump has decried since at least 2017.
    — Peter E. Harrell, Foreign Affairs, 19 Dec. 2024
  • At the time, the community held a vigil to decry the hateful messages.
    — Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Some decried the Hamas attack as terrorism, as has the United States.
    — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Oilers coaches and players decried the abuse McDavid receives night in and night out.
    — Chris Branch, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
  • The measure, widely decried as racist and xenophobic, has yet to make it out of committee.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2023
  • And still, not enough Latinos have gotten there — not for a lack of trying, either from them or the industry Rock decried.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The festival had to move from Humboldt Park to Douglass Park in 2015 due to local furor, and now its new neighbors have decried the event as well.
    — Josh Chesler, Spin, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Cruz and Ocasio-Cortez were not the only lawmakers to decry the short amount of time to read the text, with others also taking to Twitter.
    — Emma Colton, Washington Examiner, 21 Dec. 2020
  • The conference has also decried the deaths of civilians.
    — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 23 Mar. 2024
  • In the wake of Blow's columns, Mexicans famous and not spoke out on social media against those who dared decry their man.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Star Tribune, 19 Mar. 2021
  • In the wake of Blow’s columns, Mexicans famous and not spoke out on social media against those who dared decry their man.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Since then, Republican lawmakers have spent years decrying the costs of Medicaid to the state.
    — Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Four years later, partly in response to the behavior of two former students who critiqued her for those comments, Adichie published a blog post decrying cancel culture.
    — Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2025

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