How to Use subvert in a Sentence

subvert

verb

• They conspired to subvert the government.
• Just the latest in Putin’s long campaign to subvert democracy and the rule of law.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 Mar. 2024
• Honor the results of our elections, not subvert the will of the people.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 8 Feb. 2023
• Each one of them shocked and thrilled me and subverted my expectations.
  — James Gray, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2023
• Some of the leading fall trends of the moment include items that subvert the seasonal classics.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2022
• Many hosts arrive on SNL eager to subvert their public persona and show their comedic range.
  — Esther Zuckerman, The Atlantic, 19 Nov. 2023
• Oat flour is the Phoebe Waller-Bridge of gluten-free flours: easy to love, endlessly adaptable, and subverting old ideas of what feels possible.
  — Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appétit, 15 Mar. 2024
• Our aim is to subvert it, to ensure no one is ever able to unlock and thus abuse this technology.
  — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 12 Feb. 2024
• The collection is arranged to subvert genre boundaries, almost the way a hip-hop mixtape might strike the listener.
  — Joshunda Sanders, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2023
• In some cases, the bathroom is used to subvert expectations about a restaurant.
  — Priya Krishna, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2022
• No date has been set in a separate state case in Atlanta charging him with scheming to subvert that state’s 2020 election.
  — Mark Sherman, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
• Now the author returns with Parade, which promises to subvert the conventions of the novel.
  — Vulture, 2 Jan. 2024
• In this case the affair disrupts and subverts Italian social and family norms.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 19 Sep. 2023
• And anyway, subverting an election is hardly the act of an obstreperous child.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
• The efforts to keep Mr. Trump off the 2024 presidential ballot are a blatant attempt to subvert the will of the people and a terrible folly.
  — WSJ, 9 Jan. 2024
• Lee played a key role in support of former president Donald Trump’s attempt to subvert the 2020 election and cling to power.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2022
• By choosing to subvert notions of what women of influence should wear, Chisholm was able to further step into her innate strength.
  — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 26 Mar. 2024
• Koch would allegedly fill a shopping cart with goods, then pass the cart off to Sester in the self-checkout line to subvert security at the stores and then simply walk out with the merchandise.
  — Emma Colton, Fox News, 19 Dec. 2022
• If that sounds a bit too formulaic, watching Winslow subvert the conventions of an old literary form is half the thrill of this novel.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2023
• The former president has pleaded not guilty to four charges accusing him of efforts to subvert the 2020 election in August.
  — Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner, 29 Sep. 2023
• His wish to subvert this process was driven by an even higher ambition: to prevent the emergence of a sovereign Palestinian state and the partition of the Holy Land.
  — Ami Ayalon, Foreign Affairs, 31 Oct. 2023
• Her goal on The Collective, as was her goal with Sonic Youth, is to subvert listeners’ expectations.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2024
• The Olympics have also served as a testbed for ways to subvert annoying security measures.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Dec. 2023
• Vaughn wants audiences to suspect the artifice and get a laugh out of the clunky clichés being served up and subverted, while innocuously planting seeds that will pay off later in the movie.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
• Eastman is one of 18 co-defendants charged alongside Trump in Georgia for trying to subvert the state’s election results.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 22 Aug. 2023
• The Justice Department is conducting its own sprawling inquiry into the roles Trump and some of his allies played in seeking to subvert the 2020 election.
  — Luke Broadwater, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2022
• And, hopefully, the role will help subvert expectations for other young Black actors.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 17 Mar. 2023
• Trump’s efforts to subvert the election, its consequences are still being felt today.
  — Yasmeen Serhan, Time, 30 Sep. 2022
• The filmmakers leaned into some tropes while subverting others.
  — Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
• Waititi has a way with such characters and has had plenty of fun in the past subverting Hollywood formulas.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 15 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024