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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This Saturday’s gathering is to decry the arrests of more than 600 people who breached the Capitol on Jan. 6.
    — Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Lust was remarkably similar to Kennedy, who decries pesticides, opposes fluoride in tap water, and has long stoked baseless fears about vaccines.
    — Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Watch on Deadline Mangione had in his possession a handwritten manifesto of sorts decrying the high cost of healthcare in America, the low standard of low healthcare overall in America and corporate profits from such care.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 9 Dec. 2024

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