How to Use demonstration in a Sentence

demonstration

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  • He brought along a copy of the software for demonstration.
  • One of the instructors gave a demonstration of how to prune a tree.
  • The latest tests are a clear demonstration that the vaccine works.
  • Would you mind giving us a demonstration so that we can see how the machine works?
  • I went to a sculpture demonstration last weekend.
  • Many people sent cards and flowers in demonstration of their sympathy.
  • Students took part in several nonviolent demonstrations against the government.
  • But the current wave of demonstrations is one of the biggest and most deadly.
    — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 July 2024
  • But that plug-in was not used in Millière’s demonstration.
    — George Musser, Scientific American, 11 May 2023
  • Monday night was a demonstration in the power of doing just that — and the pitfalls when not.
    — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Mad About the Boy, as a demonstration of their confidence.
    — Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 July 2024
  • Campus officials told the group to end its protest, but the demonstration grew throughout the day and a few tents popped up.
    — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
  • But there was no live demonstration of the robot completing the tasks.
    — Tom Krisher and Matt O'Brien, ajc, 1 Oct. 2022
  • That, to me, is a demonstration of the realness, the beauty, the power of Black aesthetics.
    — Harmony Holiday, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
  • This year’s strike was the fifth year demonstrations were held over Cyber weekend.
    — Juliann Ventura, The Hill, 14 Dec. 2024
  • That changed during the Arab Spring, when in 2011 nearly three weeks of demonstrations forced Mubarak from power.
    — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
  • There’s this weird demonstration of a need to connect with Superboy and to perhaps pass on to him.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2022
  • King then helped lead Birmingham demonstrations of April and May of 1963.
    — Greg Garrison | , al, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Kirk Rush has said Lee broke parts of his neck during the demonstration, which required surgery to repair.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2022
  • For one demonstration, a glance up with the head set on reveals the ceiling at Madison Square Garden.
    — Andrew Mahoney, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2023
  • As a simple demonstration of this, just try searching Airbnb listings in a city near the ocean or a big lake, and notice rental prices.
    — Tree Meinch, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Dustin Reed, a father of one of the special needs children refused dine-in service at the restaurant, moved the cups away from the demonstration.
    — Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2024
  • One estimate has the cost of this demonstration at $10 billion over three years.
    — Tomas J. Philipson, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024
  • This wasn’t the 36-year-old’s first time rallying workers at a demonstration.
    — Dallas News, 10 Oct. 2022
  • People who want to raise specific things, if their choice is to have a protest or a demonstration, that will be there and that will happen.
    — Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The demonstration at the Bushehr project and the Abadan and Kangan oil refineries marked the first time the unrest had spread to Iran's crucial oil industry.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 11 Oct. 2022
  • In the face of the demonstrations, the Supreme Court on Sunday again cut the quota to just 5% but comments by Hasina that likened the protesters to traitors poured fuel on the fire.
    — Charlie Campbell, TIME, 25 July 2024
  • Although support for the AfD has surged in Germany in recent months, the news of the meeting and the ensuing demonstrations against the far right have put the party on the back foot.
    — Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2024
  • And once the nursery closes, the Rancho intends to preserve the demonstration gardens and straw and adobe buildings as the headquarters for its nature preserve.
    — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Musk's arresting demonstration of government-by-tweet left Washington reeling — but the magic trick will get harder to repeat.
    — Scott Rosenberg, Axios, 19 Dec. 2024

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