protestation

How To Use protestation In A Sentence

• Every protestation that she should go on this outing was clearly a plea for her to stay and resist the invitation.
• Despite his occasional protestations of friendship, he disliked England and thought her a worthless ally.
• Instead of dissuading him from further crime, the fact of having been labelled a criminal may be sufficient to make him what, if we believe his protestations of innocence, he was not.
• To the protestations of my colleagues in the Labour Party, I say that I have been harping on about this issue for so long, and it has taken as long as this to get it to the House.
• Yet this very tragedy, in spite of its author's protestations, is nothing more than a rifacimento of Racine's drama, and rather infelicitous at that, though it must be admitted that Mendes' style is of classic purity, and some of his scenes are in a measure characterized by vivacity of action. The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885)
• Les autorités iraniennes ont interdit hier aux journalistes des médias étrangers de quitter leurs bureaux pour couvrir les manifestations de protestation dans les rues de Téhéran. From the dept of 'oh snap'
• Many women are virtual slaves to their pimps, snared by false protestations of love, and then held in his thrall by a combination of violence and spurious affection.
• his praise released from her loud protestations of her unworthiness
• More protestations of innocence followed and shortly afterwards, creepiness slunk in.
• Accompanying the petition is a series of portraits of Icelanders holding up their own protestations of innocence. Icelanders protest terrorist label