How to Use counterprotest in a Sentence

counterprotest

noun

• Amid protests and counterprotests, the scene in the city in recent days grew tense.
  — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2026
• But an even larger number of locals turned out for a counterprotest.
  — Clay Risen, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Dec. 2021
• No arrests were reported, and there was no sign of a counterprotest.
  — Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2021
• Two people stood across Main Street holding counterprotest signs.
  — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 12 Jan. 2026
• His 20 or so protesters drew a counterprotest, and chaos ensued.
  — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 8 Mar. 2026
• It was met by a counterprotest from a small band of transgender rights campaigners, Reuters video showed.
  — Amy Cassidy, CNN, 10 Apr. 2024
• The counterprotest drew about 125 demonstrators at its peak.
  — Nicole Acevedo, NBC news, 9 Mar. 2026
• Sunday’s counterprotest was a rare instance of public pushback over the convoy.
  — Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2022
• But the counterprotest drew roughly 125 demonstrators at its peak.
  — Tom Winter, NBC news, 8 Mar. 2026
• Wideman said their event was not any sort of counterprotest and that its scheduling on the same day as the other events was not intentional.
  — Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2025
• While at the park, he’s caught in a police sweep and counterprotest that turns violent; one protester’s eye is liquefied.
  — Carolyn Kellogg, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
• There have been hundreds of protests and counterprotests on college campuses, with some of them turning violent.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2024
• There were no major counterprotests, but some attendees voiced frustration.
  — CBS News, 12 May 2024
• The counterprotest is expected to be smaller than the Women’s March.
  — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2020
• Last month, Kleinhenz helped organize a counterprotest to a group outside city hall demanding the city defund the police.
  — Emily Wilder, The Arizona Republic, 25 July 2020
• So, another group that included Leete, took to the rally in a counterprotest, according to the Post.
  — NBC News, 17 July 2021
• Tisch said about 20 people showed up to the protest tied to him on Saturday, and the counterprotest had about 125 people at its peak.
  — ABC News, 7 Mar. 2026
• Another group, which included Leete, soon showed up in a counterprotest, and Leete delivered her address.
  — NBC News, 22 July 2021
• Baker provides historical context for the unrest, and profiles activists and clergy who led the counterprotests.
  — Monitor Reviewers, Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2025
• The first one was set up April 25, sparking mixed reactions and a largely peaceful counterprotest on April 28.
  — Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2024
• Shirt claiming 'censorship' also banned Protests and counterprotests outside the school followed as the controversy grew.
  — Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2025
• These Signal networks have also functioned as an organizing hub for an aggressive counterprotest.
  — Christina Buttons, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2026
• Our approach to prosecuting demonstrations and counterprotests is driven solely by the principles of law and justice, without any bias toward any group.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 2 July 2024
• At a time when reflexive rage is the go-to mode across the ideological spectrum, Despentes has grabbed the mic to offer a kind of counterprotest to the social-media backlash.
  — Marc Weingarten, The Atlantic, 23 Sep. 2024
• In Tel Aviv, thousands of pro-government marchers gathered in a counterprotest Sunday, attempting to block a major highway.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 23 July 2023
• Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who has been arrested in connection to the shooting in Kenosha, was part of an armed counterprotest during the riots.
  — Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 1 Sep. 2020
• There have been allegations of antisemitism and Islamophobia in protests and counterprotests.
  — Savannah Kuchar, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2025
• The Los Angeles campus became a hotbed of protest and counterprotest activity throughout much of the spring semester.
  — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2024
• Police were investigating whether the car was affiliated with a nearby counterprotest, the officials said.
  — Ben Chapman, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020
• Several weeks later, Hefazat, which had been formed just three years earlier, staged counterprotests that mobilized several hundred thousand people.
  — Michael Kugelman, Foreign Affairs, 27 July 2017