Sample Sentences for
denounce
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    He might denounce me there before the whole school.  (source)
    denounce = criticize or accuse publicly
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    I denounce these proceedings!  (source)
    denounce = strongly criticize or accuse publicly
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    She doesn't say a word and I wonder if she's going to the post office to denounce me for sleeping in my grandmother's bed and wearing her black dress.  (source)
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    ...families were both celebrated and denounced...  (source)
    denounced = strongly criticized
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    the spy's mistress had learned of his activities, and before she could denounce him, he had gunned her down cold-bloodedly.  (source)
    denounce = turn him into the authorities
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    ...they're all either helping their fellow citizens or denouncing them and sending them off to prison.  (source)
    denouncing = informing against
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    His sermon was a forthright denunciation of sin,  (source)
    denunciation = strong criticism
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    These factors, coupled with the increasing popularity and vocal denunciations of the new Whig party led by Henry Clay, were quickly eroding popular support.  (source)
    denunciations = criticisms or accusations
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    ...his flat face wrinkled into a scowl as he denounces the nicotine junkies whose weakness rots the underpinnings of civil society.  (source)
    denounces = strongly criticizes
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    Being here presently denounced, he had for a time succeeded in evading the officers of Justice, but being at length seized while in the act of flight, he had resisted them, and had—he best knew whether by express design, or in the blindness of his hardihood—caused the death of his denouncer, to whom his whole career was known.†  (source)
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    and with what majesty of denouncement will you crush the viper, who would bring this stain and shame upon the God-like race that happily has cast him out for ever!†  (source)
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    I ask any honest opponent of the new Constitution: Does language give us severe enough denouncements for this shameless attempt to defraud the citizens of America?†  (source)
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    Napoleon had denounced such ideas as contrary to the spirit of Animalism.  (source)
    denounced = strongly criticized
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