All 17 Uses of

demonstrate
in
Fast Food Nation

As he demonstrated one contraption after another — including a wireless hand-held menu that uses radio waves to transmit orders — a group of construction workers across the street put the finishing touches on a new subdivision called Constitution Hills.†
p. 67.3

demonstrated = showed

According to Callicrate, the suit will demonstrate that the company's purported efficiency in production is really "an efficiency in stealing."†
p. 144.1

demonstrate = show

The working conditions in America's slaughterhouses demonstrate what can happen when employers wield virtually unchecked power over their workers.†
p. 265.8 *

And Growing Power, a group led by Will Allen and based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is demonstrating how agriculture can thrive in the inner city, turning urban food deserts into farms that produce healthy food.†
p. 274.9

demonstrating = showing

It resembles the American embassy compounds that always used to attract antiwar protesters, student demonstrators, flag burners.†
p. 31.3

On October 7, 1989, the first mass demonstration against East Germany's Communist rulers took place in Plauen.†
p. 227.9

The demonstration had no leadership, no organizers, no formal plan of action.†
p. 228.1

Some of the demonstration's most fervent supporters were long-haired, working-class fans of American heavy metal music, known in Plauen as die Heavies, who rode their motorcycles through town distributing antigovernment pamphlets.†
p. 228.3

Police officers and Stasi agents tried to break up the demonstration, arresting dozens of people, firing water cannons at the crowd, flying helicopters low over the rooftops of Plauen.†
p. 228.5

And so Kinder stood on the steps of the town hall with a megaphone, urging the soldiers not to fire their weapons and telling the demonstrators that their point had been made, now it was time to go home.†
p. 228.9

The U.S. Air Force had just bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and anti-American demonstrations were erupting throughout China.†
p. 243.9

A generation ago American embassies and oil companies were the most likely targets of overseas demonstrations against "U.S. imperialism:' Today fast food restaurants have assumed that symbolic role, with McDonald's a particular favorite.†
p. 244.0

During July of 2000 an estimated thirty thousand demonstrators gathered in Millau when Jose Bove went on trial, some carrying signs that said "Non a McMerde."†
p. 244.8

It later staged demonstrations in support of animal rights and British trade unions.†
p. 245.1

They participated in demonstrations against McDonald's and gave out anti-McDonald's leaflets.†
p. 248.1

The apartment lacks central heating, the ceilings are sagging, and the place is crammed with books, boxes, files, transcripts, leaflets, and posters announcing various demonstrations.†
p. 248.7

Definitions:

(1) (demonstrate as in: It demonstrates my point.)
to show
The exact meaning of this sense of demonstrate can depend upon its context. For example:
- "I will demonstrate how to throw a Frisbee." -- show how to do something
- "I will demonstrate how much quicker the new computer is than the old one." -- show how something works
- "Her questioned demonstrated that she was listening and thinking deeply about what was said." -- showed to be true or proved
(2) (demonstrate as in: demonstrate to protest)
a public display supporting a cause -- usually joining with others in a political protest