Sample Sentences for
controversy
(editor-reviewed)

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    Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers, the cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico. ... The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that!  (source)
    controversy = disputes where there is strong disagreement
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    Though 85 percent of Joetsu residents donated to the park fund, the plan generated heated controversy.  (source)
    controversy = disagreement
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    There was some controversy over the burial, because of Megan's supposed role in the child's death.†  (source)
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    Because of the controversy, we delayed doing the operation.†  (source)
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    We're aware of the controversies surrounding the Harrises and Klebolds.†  (source)
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    The controversy divided the hospital staff into two camps.†  (source)
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    It was the cause of bitter controversies.†  (source)
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    We'd been in the middle of what we later came to call the "tokens controversy."†  (source)
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    Everyone loved the princesses because of their great beauty, their gentle ways, and their ability to settle all controversies fairly and reasonably.†  (source)
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    He is living in the same motel where all the controversy took place.†  (source)
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    In March 1995 I received a call from an editor at Outside magazine proposing that I join a guided Everest expedition scheduled to depart five days hence and write an article about the mushrooming commercialization of the mountain and the attendant controversies.†  (source)
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    In Waco, as he remembered, he had caused controversy because he never seemed to sleep.†  (source)
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    But of all their controversies, none was so bitter as the one that took place over the windmill.†  (source)
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