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 Meanings and Examples of PROTEST
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
protest
 n.  expression of disagreement and disapproval; complain against
Classic Sentence: (154 in 11 pages)
1  She could not bring herself to utter any word to the Yankees, either of pleading, protest or anger.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
2  Its rusty castors screeching in protest.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
3  It was his only heavy coat but Scarlett made no protest.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
4  The newspapers were so muzzled that no public protest could be raised against the injustices or depredations of the military, and individual protests were silenced with jail sentences.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
5  With Yankee soldiers everywhere, the state officials could do little but protest and resist.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
6  "It was nothing," he would protest.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
7  What he did at this desk the bewildered officials of the bank did not know, but he owned too large a block of the stock for them to protest his presence there.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
8  She met Selden's sound of protest with a sharp derisive glance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
9  He had drawn her hand into his arm, but she held him back with a last gesture of protest.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
10  Lily uttered no protest, and when he had paused to make sure of his change they emerged from the hotel and crossed Sixth Avenue again.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
11  They stared at her; they nodded at Juanita's protest: "I think one's enough for a while."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
12  It was not Erik to whom she must escape, but universal and joyous youth, in class-rooms, in studios, in offices, in meetings to protest against Things in General.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
13  He would sputter uneasy protest.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
14  The lovers got up, with only a silent protest, and walked slowly away somewhere else.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VII
15  The boys were being put to bed; the patter of their bare, escaping feet could be heard occasionally, as well as the pursuing voice of the quadroon, lifted in mild protest and entreaty.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVII
Example Sentence: (97 in 7 pages)
16  Half a million people held a mass protest against racism last night.
17  A small group of demonstrators staged a peaceful protest outside the UN Headquarters.
18  Local residents have organized a protest against the planned dump site.
19  I can't pass the matter by without a protest.
20  The reactionary government tried vainly to take the steam out of the protest movement.
21  The protest was a symbolic gesture of anger at official policy.
22  An official protest could carry considerable clout.
23  He handed in his resignation in protest against the president's European policy.
24  Most of the people on the protest seemed to be rent-a-mob, not real supporters.
25  History shows that the usual response to violent protest is repression.
26  The people made a protest about the rise in prices.
27  They have begun a hunger strike in protest at the alleged beating.
28  He is on hunger strike in protest at what he claims is his wrongful conviction for murder.
29  Staff at the hospital went on strike in protest at the incidents.
30  The new tax sparked a wave of public protest.