How to Use objection in a Sentence

objection

noun
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  • He said he had no objection to the plan.
  • My main objection is that some people will have to pay more than others.
  • The state takeover of Shelby Park comes over the objections of the city of Eagle Pass, which owns the land.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Parties in the case and others will have three days to file objections.
    — Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 6 Sep. 2023
  • And of course, there are other objections to the program.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2024
  • This doesn’t mean your wife’s objections can be brushed aside.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Still, the plan quickly ran into objections from the hard right that jeopardize its chances in the House.
    — Erik Wasson, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The sentence trailed off because the objection was written on my face.
    — Olayemi Olurin, Essence, 4 July 2023
  • But objections over Gaza do not appear to have put a dent in the president's war chest thus far.
    — USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2024
  • And so, when one side appears to write past that limit, the other side calls foul and files an objection in court.
    — Derek H. Kiernan-Johnson, The Conversation, 1 Feb. 2024
  • No, the objection stemmed from the fact that McDaniel was an active participant in the plot to subvert the 2020 vote.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Despite those objections, Reed was sentenced to nine years in prison.
    — Julia Jester, NBC News, 25 July 2023
  • The company’s shares fell 19% that day, suggesting the market had some objections to the union.
    — Damian Garde, STAT, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Biden agreed in May to drop his objections to giving Ukraine F-16s, though that may not happen until next year.
    — Cassandra Vinograd, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
  • Loren’s objections made front-page news in Israel, and Geller assumed he was finished.
    — David Segal, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
  • June 1987: All this while, the FDA has been receiving and dismissing a spate of objections to its approvals.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 14 July 2023
  • Despite Robert's objections, the judge sided with Lindsay and allowed the 36-year-old to leave the Bahamas for the first time since her July arrest.
    — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Before that, people opposed to the settlement can raise objections to the judge.
    — Rebecca Santana and Elliot Spagat, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Moore, who is cited in Newton’s lawsuit, appeared before the council to state her objections ahead of the vote.
    — Joseph D. Bryant | Jbryant@al.com, al, 12 June 2023
  • With her husband’s support and over the objections of others, Rosalynn Carter expanded the role of the first lady.
    — Kevin Sullivan, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
  • But then the Senate failed to do so after Senator Rand Paul raised objections.
    — Rebecca Santana, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2023
  • On the Senate floor, one key GOP leader said the bill was written in a way that attempted to skirt the justices’ objections to the original law.
    — Rachel Roubein, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Over the objections of the first Black members of Congress, Congress voted for a general amnesty.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The young voters plans to make their objections known at the ballot box next year, viewing the court’s actions as out of step with the issues and values important to them and their peers.
    — Tamia Fowlkes, Anchorage Daily News, 9 July 2023
  • He was then forcibly pushed into a van against his objections and driven to the command post, where he was fired and escorted off the base, according to the complaint.
    — Frances Robles, New York Times, 15 July 2023
  • The House Freedom Caucus took only moments to make their objection to the stopgap funding bill known.
    — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 16 Jan. 2024
  • In November 2022, with the eviction pending, the home won the historic designation from the city over the new owner’s objection.
    — Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
  • With no objection from Kurczewski, the court granted their withdrawals as well.
    — Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Kenya's government believes the agreement satisfies the objections of the Kenyan courts, which had stopped the deployment.
    — Eyder Peralta, NPR, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Trader Joe’s frozen pie crusts were not much better than Marie Callender’s in terms of texture, but our testers didn’t have outright objections to the taste.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 3 Nov. 2023

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