How to Use subvert in a Sentence

subvert

verb
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  • Nash subverts the form of the slasher movie but not the content.
    — A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 31 May 2024
  • Just the latest in Putin’s long campaign to subvert democracy and the rule of law.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Honor the results of our elections, not subvert the will of the people.
    — Abc News, ABC News, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Each one of them shocked and thrilled me and subverted my expectations.
    — James Gray, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Some of the leading fall trends of the moment include items that subvert the seasonal classics.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Many hosts arrive on SNL eager to subvert their public persona and show their comedic range.
    — Esther Zuckerman, The Atlantic, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Oat flour is the Phoebe Waller-Bridge of gluten-free flours: easy to love, endlessly adaptable, and subverting old ideas of what feels possible.
    — Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appétit, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Our aim is to subvert it, to ensure no one is ever able to unlock and thus abuse this technology.
    — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 12 Feb. 2024
  • To me, true work worth doing is work that can subvert expectations.
    — Heide Janssen, Orange County Register, 21 Apr. 2024
  • The collection is arranged to subvert genre boundaries, almost the way a hip-hop mixtape might strike the listener.
    — Joshunda Sanders, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2023
  • In some cases, the bathroom is used to subvert expectations about a restaurant.
    — Priya Krishna, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2022
  • No date has been set in a separate state case in Atlanta charging him with scheming to subvert that state’s 2020 election.
    — Mark Sherman, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Now the author returns with Parade, which promises to subvert the conventions of the novel.
    — Vulture, 2 Jan. 2024
  • In this case the affair disrupts and subverts Italian social and family norms.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 19 Sep. 2023
  • In state charges in Fulton County, Ga., Trump is charged with conspiring with more than a dozen others to subvert the 2020 election results in that state.
    — Spencer Hsu, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
  • And they can be subverted with prompt injections or jailbreaks that throw them off their safety guardrails.
    — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 11 June 2024
  • And anyway, subverting an election is hardly the act of an obstreperous child.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
  • But season three tries even harder to thwart your hopes and subvert your expectations.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 2024
  • The scheme was designed to subvert election law and keep the payment secret, prosecutors say.
    — Graham Kates, CBS News, 28 May 2024
  • Spanish films boast a winning sense of genre, hitting or very often subverting genre tropes.
    — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 15 May 2024
  • The efforts to keep Mr. Trump off the 2024 presidential ballot are a blatant attempt to subvert the will of the people and a terrible folly.
    — WSJ, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Lee played a key role in support of former president Donald Trump’s attempt to subvert the 2020 election and cling to power.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2022
  • By choosing to subvert notions of what women of influence should wear, Chisholm was able to further step into her innate strength.
    — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Koch would allegedly fill a shopping cart with goods, then pass the cart off to Sester in the self-checkout line to subvert security at the stores and then simply walk out with the merchandise.
    — Emma Colton, Fox News, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The website Vote for the Worst, which urged fans to subvert the Idol system by keeping on its quirkiest and most divisive contestants, took up Malakar as a personal cause.
    — Nico Lang, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2024
  • Commentary and opinions Jackie Calmes: Trump promises to subvert the law — first by freeing the Jan. 6 criminals.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2024
  • If that sounds a bit too formulaic, watching Winslow subvert the conventions of an old literary form is half the thrill of this novel.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The former president has pleaded not guilty to four charges accusing him of efforts to subvert the 2020 election in August.
    — Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner, 29 Sep. 2023
  • His wish to subvert this process was driven by an even higher ambition: to prevent the emergence of a sovereign Palestinian state and the partition of the Holy Land.
    — Ami Ayalon, Foreign Affairs, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The case centers on whether Trump can challenge special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment for allegedly trying to subvert the 2020 election.
    — Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 1 July 2024

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