Sample Sentences for
dissent
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    But to my surprise, no one mutters in dissent and no one laughs.  (source)
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    In the rumbling of the crowd, I hear the dissent.  (source)
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    Should I utter so much as a word of dissent, I am confident they would label me a communist anarchist, and then even Andreas's influence would not save me from the dungeons.  (source)
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    It [the strike] lasted one shift, the men creeping to work the next day after Mr. Dubonnet told them to get their butts back down in the mine, but Pooky had gotten a whiff of power and was now muttering dissent on the Big Store steps.  (source)
    dissent = opinions in disagreement
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    "I will tolerate no dissension up there."  (source)
    dissension = disagreement
    standard suffix: The suffix "-sion", 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 admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
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    There is, however, a small dissenting faction.  (source)
    dissenting = disagreeing
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    He had been learned in the Fathers and the Councils and forgotten all about them save a floating impression of dissensions that had no application to Peru.†  (source)
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    but I dissented:  (source)
    dissented = disagreed
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    There was a chorus of agreement with only one dissentient voice.  (source)
    dissentient = disagreeing
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    For she had undergone her own educating at a time of nerves, blandness and retreat among not only her fellow students but also most of the visible structure around and ahead of them, this having been a national reflex to certain pathologies in high places only death had had the power to cure, and this Berkeley was like no somnolent Siwash out of her own past at all, but more akin to those Far Eastern or Latin American universities you read about, those autonomous culture media where the most beloved of folklores may be brought into doubt, cataclysmic of dissents voiced, suicidal of commitments chosen—the sort that bring governments down.†  (source)
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    By holy Paul, they love his grace but lightly That fill his ears with such dissentious rumours.  (source)
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    He felt her shoulders give a wriggle of dissent.  (source)
    dissent = disagreement
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    Mr. Merriweather could not drive, and if their dissension reached the acrimonious, Mrs. Merriweather would stop the car and hitchhike to town.  (source)
    dissension = disagreement or conflict
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