[
UK
/dˈɛmənstɹˌeɪtɐ/
]
[ US /ˈdɛmənˌstɹeɪtɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈdɛmənˌstɹeɪtɝ/ ]
NOUN
- someone who participates in a public display of group feeling
- a teacher or teacher's assistant who demonstrates the principles that are being taught
- someone who demonstrates an article to a prospective buyer
How To Use demonstrator In A Sentence
- At the beginning of the protest, Aristide partisans attacked demonstrators, hitting one with a rock and shooting another.
- With his baseball cap and goatee, he would fit in perfectly with the demonstrators downtown.
- Demonstrators arrived in strength to protest against the closure of the factory.
- The two leaders had earlier led a march of hundreds of demonstrators in defiance of a government ban on protest rallies or gatherings of more than four people.
- They were killed in an exchange of gunfire between riot police and demonstrators.
- The demonstrators were mostly schoolchildren given the day off, army conscripts and public employees encouraged to go on the march in their working hours. Times, Sunday Times
- The demonstrators seemed to be from a complete cross-section of society - male and female, old and young, rich and poor.
- Many bridges were blocked by demonstrators, and taxicabs and buses driven by scabs were damaged by strikers.
- The contrast between the anarchical images of vandalism in Seattle and Genoa and the dignified demeanor of civil rights demonstrators forty years before is striking.
- The demonstrators fled when they saw the authorities' superior numbers.
