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.
  • That's led critics to decry the bill as nothing more than propaganda.
    — Stephen Groves, ajc, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Those vendors would decry that there is no sense in reinventing the wheel, so to speak, and instead to use their readily available and detailed maps.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Some decried Mountain Chalet's closure as the death knell for an older, more authentic Aspen.
    — Jen Murphy, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Malone has insisted the rally is solely intended to decry mandates.
    — Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Leading voices across Biden's diverse political base openly decry the slow pace of progress on key campaign promises.
    — Steve Peoples, ajc, 15 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The conference has also decried the deaths of civilians.
    — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Tell that to the conservative Catholic activists who are decrying the Dodgers.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
  • Critics decry them as overreach and an affront to the Second Amendment.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2024
  • Trump, who has decried the probes as political witch hunts, pleaded not guilty to all charges in both those cases.
    — Katherine Faulders, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Nossel lamented the timing of Gilbert’s announcement and the fact that those who decried its publication could not have had a chance to read it.
    — Time, 12 June 2023
  • Zelenskyy used Sunday's final match of the soccer World Cup to decry war.
    — Arkansas Online, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Twitch content creators took to social media to decry the changes.
    — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 7 June 2023
  • Quentin Tarantino is the latest A-list director to decry what the streaming business is doing to the film industry.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 26 May 2023
  • Allen, the real estate agent, decried the delays as petty grievances.
    — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2024
  • Walz and Vance are both fathers, which could yield a conversation about gender-affirming care for youth (which Walz has championed and Vance has, unsurprisingly, decried).
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 26 Sep. 2024

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