protesting
Example Sentences
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Students are protesting about a lack of teachers and staff, overcrowded classrooms and run-down buildings.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
The 37-year-old was protesting on Tuesday to "demand our rights" and to have a wage raise "just like other public-sector employees whose salaries were increased".
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Let’s see Erin Brockovich, or Julia Roberts for that matter, protesting in a spacesuit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
He was expelled from Prairie View A&M University in 1971 after protesting against the expulsion of the editor of the student newspaper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Martin Luther King, Jr., at the Woolworth’s lunch counter in Durham, shut down by students protesting Jim Crow segregation on February 8, 1960.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
