Sample Sentences fordecry (auto-selected)
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The Historic Savannah Foundation had risen up in angry opposition, decrying the substandard quality of Adler's proposed dwellings.† (source)
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They came home from that expedition, however, to unanticipated public criticism from Sir Edmund Hillary, who decried Hall's role in the growing commercialization of Everest.† (source)
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Evgeni Sigismondavich Politovskiy had served the czar's navy with skill and a devotion to duty equal to that of any officer in history, but in his diary, which was discovered years later in Leningrad, the brilliant officer had decried in the most violent terms the corruption and excesses of the czarist regime, giving a grim counterpoint to the selfless patriotism he had shown as he sailed knowingly to his death.† (source)
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Here the pale clergyman piled up his library, rich with parchment-bound folios of the Fathers, and the lore of Rabbis, and monkish erudition, of which the Protestant divines, even while they vilified and decried that class of writers, were yet constrained often to avail themselves.† (source)
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It should have been Esther who decried the marked-up trains—defaced, ugly, like mobile dumpsters.† (source)
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He had become just like the whites he decried.† (source)
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Night birds decried their passage.† (source)
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He'd written extensively about the Cassini project, the faulty mirror on the lens of the Hubble spacecraft, and had been one of the first to publicly decry the Utah cold fusion experiment as a fraud.† (source)
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Even General Smuts realized the dangers of this harsh ideology, decrying apartheid as "a crazy concept, born of prejudice and fear."† (source)
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Our ancient heritage and our very physiologies tell us sex is natural—a cherished route to spiritual fulfillment—and yet modern religion decries it as shameful, teaching us to fear our sexual desire as the hand of the devil.† (source)
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He decried the stupidity of erecting buildings that were Greek, Gothic or Romanesque; let us, he begged, be modern and build in the style that belongs to our days.† (source)
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"Oh, no need to decry your industry!" said the stranger, very easy, showing his teeth in a smile.† (source)
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Like many of his peers, he'd turned too blind an eye to their brutal violations of democracy; a democracy that many of our leaders had been decrying as unworkable, but that they were now keen to defend.† (source)
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Felicity pushes in, annoying a matron, who decries her rudeness with an "I say!"† (source)
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The worship of the senses has often, and with much justice, been decried, men feeling a natural instinct of terror about passions and sensations that seem stronger than themselves, and that they are conscious of sharing with the less highly organised forms of existence.† (source)
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Again, we may decry the color-prejudice of the South, yet it remains a heavy fact.† (source)
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