How to Use decry in a Sentence

decry

verb

• In her article, she decries the pollution of the environment by manufacturers.
• Violence on television is generally decried as harmful to children.
• Democrats have decried the far-right shift, calling Jordan the leader of the chaos wing of the GOP.
  — Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2023
• The move sparked backlash from Democrats, who decried the complaint as overblown.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
• In a social media post, a Black woman decried a group of Black men standing nearby on the street.
  — Claretta Bellamy, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2023
• This is what all those ads decrying Medicare for All felt like during the 2020 election.
  — Essence, 24 Oct. 2023
• White groups statewide decried the success of people of color.
  — Janet Wilson, ProPublica, 9 Nov. 2023
• Cops on the force also decried the decision in comments to the New York Post earlier this month.
  — Emma Colton, Fox News, 16 Mar. 2023
• At the time, the community held a vigil to decry the hateful messages.
  — Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2023
• Some decried the Hamas attack as terrorism, as has the United States.
  — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2023
• The measure, widely decried as racist and xenophobic, has yet to make it out of committee.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2023
• And still, not enough Latinos have gotten there — not for a lack of trying, either from them or the industry Rock decried.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024
• The festival had to move from Humboldt Park to Douglass Park in 2015 due to local furor, and now its new neighbors have decried the event as well.
  — Josh Chesler, Spin, 20 Sep. 2023
• The conference has also decried the deaths of civilians.
  — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 23 Mar. 2024
• Tell that to the conservative Catholic activists who are decrying the Dodgers.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
• Trump, who has decried the probes as political witch hunts, pleaded not guilty to all charges in both those cases.
  — Katherine Faulders, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2023
• Nossel lamented the timing of Gilbert’s announcement and the fact that those who decried its publication could not have had a chance to read it.
  — Time, 12 June 2023
• Twitch content creators took to social media to decry the changes.
  — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 7 June 2023
• Quentin Tarantino is the latest A-list director to decry what the streaming business is doing to the film industry.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 26 May 2023
• This is the same crowd who for years have extolled the virtues of Ayn Rand and decried any sort of help for the likes of student loan borrowers but then called for collectivism when their friends are in trouble.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 14 Mar. 2023
• The song decries the rich and powerful who exploit working classes.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2023
• Evergrande at the time decried the allegations as false, and filed a police report against the short-seller.
  — Kiuyan Wong, Fortune Asia, 26 Mar. 2024
• The show became the standard bearer of a new brand of in-your-face television in the 1990s that audiences embraced and critics decried as exploitive and tasteless.
  — Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 27 Apr. 2023
• There’s a meta-tragedy, maybe, in the fact that the same divisiveness and defensiveness that Peg decries within the play has made Gilman’s writing schematic and careful.
  — In Swing State, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2023
• Critics have decried the potential weakening of the EU law.
  — Megan Poinski, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Though Prehn's decision was upheld by the state Supreme Court, other members of the board and members of the public decried Prehn's decision and pushed for his exit.
  — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 5 May 2023
• At Harvard, pamphlets were handed out decrying gay love as sinful and evil.
  — Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, The New Republic, 27 Oct. 2023
• He's also pushed back on Trump's election fraud claims and decried the Jan. 6 insurrection.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2023
• While many in Mexico praised the decision, others decried it.
  — Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2023
• In a video released Thursday, civilian Hamas figures defended the group's rampage and decried the civilian deaths in Gaza from six days of Israeli airstrikes.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024