ANARCHIST in a Sentence

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1. No one but an anarchist would go about breaking statues.
2. He was apparently quite converted from his anarchist views.
3. Denying she was an anarchist, Katya maintained she wished only to make changes in our government, not to destroy it entirely.
4. She was pretty much raised by a grandfather she calls an anarchist and studied cultural anthropology at the University of Wisconsin.

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 Meanings and Examples of ANARCHIST
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
anarchist
 n.  person who seeks to overturn established government; advocate of abolishing authority
Classic Sentence:
1  I'm the town badman, Mrs. Kennicott: town atheist, and I suppose I must be an anarchist, too.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
2  Pavel, the tall one, was said to be an anarchist; since he had no means of imparting his opinions, probably his wild gesticulations and his generally excited and rebellious manner gave rise to this supposition.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
3  No one but an anarchist would go about breaking statues.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
4  You fuss over Carol Kennicott when she has some crazy theory that we all ought to turn anarchists or live on figs and nuts or something.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
5  If you Tories were wise, you wouldn't arrest anarchists; you'd arrest all these children while they're asleep in their cribs.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
Example Sentence:
1  She was pretty much raised by a grandfather she calls an anarchist and studied cultural anthropology at the University of Wisconsin.
2  He was apparently quite converted from his anarchist views.
3  Denying she was an anarchist, Katya maintained she wished only to make changes in our government, not to destroy it entirely.
4  A nude statue of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump without testicles was taken down on Thursday after causing quite the stir in New York's Union Square. An anarchist group erected the statue, titled The Emperor Has No Balls.