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How to use the word strident in a Sentence?

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There’s a lot of single-issue voters in the Republican Party on this issue, and on the other side, abortion, the idea of big tents for parties, I think, is very important. And right now it’s very strident both ways, and I just don’t think that’s good.

Jeremy Jacobs

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

For all the strident claims about how the Clinton campaign pushed the government's law-enforcement and intelligence apparatus into spying on President Trump, Special Counsel Durham has thus far charged no crimes along those lines. The indictment of Democratic Party lawyer Michael Sussmann merely alleges that he lied to the FBI to conceal that he was working for the Clinton campaign and tech executive Rodney Joffe, that said, though, it is just breathtaking to watch the media-Democrat complex, which hyped Robert Mueller’s every move in the bogus Trump-Russia ‘collusion’ caper,suddenly develop laryngitis in the matter of Durham’s probe -- that is, when it is not outright hostile.

Andy McCarthy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There's a tremendous anxiety about the division and a sense with the majority of people that their voice isn't being heard, that it's these strident, hateful, often uncompromising us versus them voices.

Tim Dixon

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident.... Is this not form?”

Giacomo Puccini

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

If we wanted to stop the resolution, we could take a more strident position.

Mark Meadows

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Uganda has seen increased levels of authoritarianism in the last decade, this has come in waves, most evident during election period when a generally strident opposition has clashed against the President's anti-democratic tendencies.

Magnus Taylor

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's one thing to be like a very tough guy -- we're all tough people -- but you've got to be able to get along a little bit with people. You can't be so strident, he can debate, but he can't talk.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I thought it was disgraceful that he brought that up ... I think he came across badly. Some people gave him pretty good reviews on the debate. I think he came across as very strident and not a nice person, and people don't like that.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The sectarian tensions in the Middle East are mirrored in our cities in Europe, there is more strident activism in Muslim communities.

Magnus Ranstorp

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

There is more strident activism in Muslim communities.

Magnus Ranstorp

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to instant stress. You shouldn't be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it's time to start your day.

Sharon Gold

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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