Example Sentences

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Imagine if the “protesters” were espousing another opinion, such as the protesters who crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama in 1965.

From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2022

Speaking with Maine Public Radio, Collins said that senators on both sides of the aisle were espousing “inappropriate” behavior and she specifically named McConnell and Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

From Slate • Dec. 31, 2019

In the Orange County city of 200,000 people, the Sheepdog Seminar speakers found a place in Southern California that was not entirely opposed to the gun-friendly ideas they were espousing.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2018

Just eight years ago, “it was fringy people in the John Birch Society” who were espousing Mr. Paul’s ideas for taking on the Federal Reserve system, Mr. Benton said.

From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2012