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    1. Punka cried and begged in protest


    2. Before I could protest he was in the cell and had pulled the phone out of my hands


    3. "Well, you spend the night here with us then,” Sarah said, and Leonora did not protest, but volunteered to carry the sleeping child into the house


    4. The starved chemical receptors in my brain joined with my empty stomach in making severe the protest running through my veins


    5. The simplicity of inaction, of this fading protest, appealed to me


    6. Seth didn't protest, he just insisted, to me anyway, that my whole life solely depended on Julia's well-being


    7. ’ She said not even bothering to protest; barely listening as he went on about taking risks


    8. I protest but, it is far to exhausting trying to resist her


    9. and the zips that protest,


    10. ’ I replied as the men protest that it will not be necessary

    11. Before I could protest the man had gone


    12. ” Andrew began to protest


    13. Then, before I could protest, he ordered two glasses of the tropical yellow delight Uncle Pani used to make and we sat and sipped in silence


    14. Maybe it was unfair of her to go out when Nuran was there, when he would have had to make a scene in front of her to protest


    15. “Yes we do, but they were created in space above the planet on a floating science laboratory;” Duncan began to protest but Kai held up his large hand, “it is cloaked Commander


    16. Protest as she might, there was


    17. protest march that snaked and chanted its way along their local


    18. of tooting car horns and good natured but serious protest


    19. public protest prior to this, preferring to comment quietly from the


    20. considered protest and that we, as a government, will listen to your

    21. that we have to respect considered debate and responsible protest,


    22. but the laws, as they stand, protect any sort of protest, no matter


    23. Jack and Jill retired from the world of public protest as soon as


    24. protest and activism dissipated and dwindled, becoming nothing


    25. know like those protest t-shirts that were all the fashion twenty


    26. protest in the hope that someone, that anyone, would listen


    27. vagabond strolled through the square, catching sight of the protest


    28. threat of wild and inflammatory protest


    29. what constituted wild and inflammatory protest, and so it was that


    30. protest of people bobbing up in down in the water while in floatation

    31. Despite my protest that I am quite able to buy my own, Dave ignores me, orders for himself and pays for both of us


    32. Yellelle started to protest, but seeing the steel in Ava’s gaze, she sighed, kissed Ava on both cheeks and with a misty-eyed frown, blinked out of Gordon’s Lamp for the last time


    33. Don’t protest before the messenger that


    34. The splitting branch howled in protest


    35. home under protest, reducing the group to eleven


    36. The mind, as if in protest, refusing to


    37. The doors groaned in protest at being


    38. arrangement, but protest as it might, the words were


    39. This time the protest had been against the very


    40. The protest was against him

    41. "Wait," she started to protest


    42. stamped her hoof in protest


    43. Klowa wanted to protest but knew it would be useless


    44. Grimgy was about to issue a protest, then he glanced at Solo Ki and made a quick half bow before heading to the kitchen


    45. about to protest that he hadn't actually defied the church,


    46. ’ Rene was about to protest,


    47. Frere Martin was about to continue his protest,


    48. She reddened with shame, but knew better than to protest


    49. protest on those grounds


    50. ral ies of protest, filmed and transmitted to














































    1. protested that I had effectively therefore been banned from the


    2. Punka, the god of merrymaking, protested to the other gods


    3. ‘Surely not!’ I protested, horrified at what he is suggesting


    4. He protested uselessly as she drove away


    5. ‘You don’t have to do that …’ I protested half heartedly


    6. ’ I protested annoyed that they are making fun of me


    7. ’ I protested laughing


    8. She protested that they had to get up; they had so much to do


    9. ’ He protested grinning


    10. ‘But …’ I protested, thinking of all the possible accidents or illnesses which could befall me

    11. My treat is limited to a thali,' Ishaan protested


    12. They checked their legal agreements through, clause by clause and swore to each other in front of various newspaper and television reporters that they would always be true, but no matter how vehemently they protested their love for one another the doubt always remained


    13. ‘I don’t call this early …’ I protested, pointing out that it’s nearly eleven


    14. ‘Gary …’ I protested, winding up to giving him a clear idea of how I feel about it; he puts his hand over mine


    15. ‘I’m too ancient to make a fuss about these things, Anna!’ Alastair protested, putting his ring back on


    16. still protested, but now that voice had no volume


    17. “Okay, okay!” he protested holding up his hands to fend off an unseen enemy, “But you’ve got to cut them a little slack, Rytal


    18. ‘That’s not fair!’ protested Alastair, ‘Give just one example of that!’


    19. But I couldn’t!’ Anna protested when I explain what Alastair had suggested,


    20. I spent most of the weekend sleeping!’ I protested, another yawn hitting me

    21. how vehemently they protested their love for one another the doubt


    22. Danny protested his innocence throughout questioning,


    23. ‘Don’t you start on that!’ Dave protested ‘Owen, haven’t you got this woman under control yet?’


    24. ” I protested as my mind leapt forward to a sexual encounter


    25. ’ He protested, amusement lighting up his features


    26. ‘But how on earth would we prove that?’ Williams protested


    27. ‘Is that strictly necessary?’ Middlesex protested


    28. ‘But she’s so tiny! How could she possibly have fought him off?’ Williams protested


    29. ’ I protested, but he stops me,


    30. " she protested

    31. “You haven’t even done anything wrong,” Pick protested


    32. "Jim!" She protested as he towed her towards the door, "What cows?"


    33. Hardly" Jim protested, reaching around to take her hand and drag her towards him


    34. Yet who of his generation protested?


    35. "What the heck, do you think you’re doing?" she protested loudly, forcing his hand from her body


    36. " She protested more for the thought of standing still, then from the pain


    37. SEATING MISSING— FALTERING, AS THE FLOOR PROTESTED AGAINST


    38. The weak woodcutter protested, torn as he was between shame and fear of his cruel wife


    39. They protested at every


    40. The bill is protested, and returns upon the drawer, who, if he does not immediately pay it, becomes likewise a bankrupt

    41. I protested that I wanted to join the fight


    42. It will be too much trouble for you,” Helez protested through the sobs, occasionally dabbing at her eyes to wipe away the tears


    43. She’s putting her love for you above her love for God,” Darniil protested


    44. “Mistress Helez, this is short of going naked,” one slave girl protested respectfully


    45. "But Mr Snickerty, sir," Jacob protested


    46. "But when I raised the point, the woman protested that she could not eat her only means of transport, and so there the matter rested


    47. At his death, Rylan illegally declared his son king, but most people had liked the first Kamuna, and so no one protested very loudly


    48. “We’ve only just set off!” he protested and then saw her holding Melissa’s arm, studying it intently


    49. ” protested Kate, “Chris, can’t we use our ropes to climb the cliff?”


    50. ‘Don’t tell me he’s dead,’ she protested













































    1. Berndt has the grace to look shamefaced as I turn to him in feigned astonishment, but retorts in kind to his friend, protesting that it wasn’t his fault if Joris had made that assumption; it was just that he hadn’t corrected him


    2. van rushed up Whitehall to where they were protesting


    3. She’s still protesting as I lead her up the garden path


    4. Rob and Trish are busy putting Leo into his seat in their car and he’s protesting at the imposition


    5. The flat spray of flowers waved at the end of its long stalk as though protesting at such cavalier treatment


    6. Later, as he dragged his protesting body through the


    7. Then, there are not strikes or protesting


    8. There was no sense protesting further


    9. People were protesting


    10. Torbin thought of protesting this time, expressing his disgust that he, someone so important to their connection with humanity, should be treated in this degrading way

    11. Norma eyed him several times before agreeing, and the kitten came home with us, protesting all the way


    12. He collapsed onto his bed and lay on his back, nerves protesting in agony


    13. And why bother protesting anyway? The Phoenix Project has its benefits


    14. Again to collect a congregation of hyped up Jews protesting for what they believed was ethically and morally right


    15. Then, he reached into the next box, grabbed the protesting hen by the neck and encouraged her to abandon her nest with a gentle tug


    16. The other rumour was that the boxes were made by prisoners (convicts), and that they had shortened it a few inches so that an R1 rifle (SLR) would not fit into them as a way of protesting their slave labour


    17. He persevered and his protesting stomach began to settle down


    18. After a lot of protesting on my part I was finally convinced that it had to happen


    19. That (certain) scars never completely heal is evidenced by recent demonstrations protesting America‘s pending war with Iraq


    20. Stan made a protesting noise, and upon rising, Nadir patted his shoulder

    21. In the second, Kerry repeated that Saddam “was a threat” before the war in Iraq, and two questions later, he contradicted himself as he has frequently done, protesting that Saddam “was not a threat”


    22. A few hours later, they drifted with their bags into the set of tents that had been set up by the ‘Occupy Edinburgh’ campaigners that had been protesting for the last few weeks outside the Scottish Office building


    23. Some sort of vague thinking in which the protests wanted to remonstration about something but they did not know what they really were protesting about


    24. At that, the Procrastinator Militant withdrew from any thought or intention of protesting, and simply accepted the proffered stool graciously


    25. It seemed best not to sound an alarm in his mind by protesting and thereby eliminate the option of merging with the crowd and slipping out unnoticed if things got worse


    26. On Shri Maharaj protesting that there will be too much throng of


    27. It featured only photos of residents protesting in the 1970s


    28. I was protesting due to nerves and not knowing anyone there but she told me to go for it


    29. He was busy manhandling the protesting pervert when Jack glided past him and out through the entrance


    30. I was beginning to worry that the muscles in his legs would be protesting, but he seemed unconscious of his body and everything outside us, only besotted by me

    31. A black man protesting the President’s health plans at a Missouri meeting was physically attacked by Service Employees International Union members wearing their trademark blue shirts


    32. ejected the loudly protesting squad


    33. Protesting Roger’s selfishness and ingratitude, she took her things and went to sleep in the living-room couch, in plain view of their very apprehensive, disturbed, worried and fearful children


    34. “Look, look, the two little birds are protesting,” said one, who seemed to be the leader


    35. protesting against it! Without this training method, these dogs already suffer more than


    36. push the protesting random guy back in, and wrap a


    37. At the same time, the scribe steps forward, a protesting cry splitting the air, but Gelahn stops his purpose with another flick of the cane


    38. She wondered how many more vehicles were hidden in the various outbuildings, and waved back at him as he pulled away with protesting tyres and a roar of the powerful engine


    39. Our legs and much of the remainder of our bodies were protesting, and many moans could be heard, coming primarily from me


    40. began protesting as the referee debated his decision

    41. Methods of protesting varied with the situation


    42. On 20 May 1932, While Gāndhiji was in Yeravda Jail, he went on a fast protesting against separate electoral representation for backward Hindus


    43. To fly with my thought to a land without anguish, is what sometimes I presaged could save me, but which ferocious colt that smashes in the thunderstorm, I suffer again for the footpath with the silk that hires me; because my mouth that is mute when it comes to speaking to you, once you have separated it did not stop protesting out loud, infamous love, if when I could embrace you, not even a sound I whispered and again I saw you passing


    44. I didn"t waste time protesting the innocence of our relationship


    45. Protesting, but only from principle; most of us are glad of an excuse to change the way we look, Jon was shorn to the scalp


    46. Both Aristocrats seemed to be protesting, but there was no sound


    47. The second desire won and he reached over to the side table, squirted into his hand a blob of the lubricant that had last greased his way into his fiancés protesting vulva, and pushed some up his newly shaved anus


    48. Con dragged the protesting woman out and pushed her along the rough track towards the hospital


    49. Protesting she didn’t want to intrude, it was just to show how pleased she was that Bart had recovered, she was none the less persuaded to stay and enjoy a slice with a cup of tea


    50. Matthew, although protesting his innocence was never allowed at the helm again













































    1. “Who, me? When did I insult you, Yvonne? What are you talking about, are you crazy?” Helen protests and looks at me aghast, as if she couldn't understand what I was saying


    2. Loud noises and protests were coming from the table where the children were seated


    3. I seem to hear protests in my ears already


    4. despite his mother’s protests, and was absolutely adamant that this


    5. snarled petulant hissing protests at the squall, in


    6. unmoved by his protests


    7. then…’ And, with that, he dismissed their protests and


    8. ignoring the Bailli’s protests


    9. And despite his protests, he knew that it wouldn't be long before that weapon was employed once more


    10. With strikes and protests, the

    11. the strikes and protests are destructive and


    12. passionately, with the only effect of protests


    13. As the Cyclopes alternately spoke with eloquence then consumed pairs of sailors at each meal, she bit her lip to silence the protests that wanted to spill out


    14. legs into a trot, despite all the protests from her many injuries


    15. The Elf had slapped the engine controls to kill acceleration the moment Yula began her protests


    16. She said a few have been of Earth, space craft, elections and protests


    17. The news channel here has been covering the protests


    18. And they'd taken no interest at all in Bradlee and Ronnie, hadn't even arrested them, despite Danny's protests


    19. Finally, I was able to pick up Smoky, over his brother’s loud protests


    20. It of course represents „diversity and inclusion," and any of us who protests is labeled as merely an intolerant bigot, racist, and a variety of other not so nice terms

    21. This more liberal administration did not, at least, engage in the heavy-handed restraint of anti-war protests


    22. Because none of the protests had mattered anyway


    23. Raven wanted to argue, but he knew that any protests would fall on uncompromising ears


    24. The police say that there has been a drastic rise in the number of protests over the last two days, and social media sites are rife with public outrage


    25. The judge choked out a series of protests


    26. Protests were of no avail


    27. "Minna," protests Peggy, "you mustn't eat another bit of candy!" and Minna opens her mouth in a howl, prolonged, but without tears and


    28. Soon the Riot Units became infamous for subduing protests using considerable violence


    29. It is not said today, but none the less true, that most of the protests turned violent and were designed to force SAP re-action to win sympathy from the world


    30. " Holding a paw aloft to stem the flow of protests that followed, Grindel smiled broadly

    31. She slipped through the main door slowly, careful to lift as she pushed to avoid the squeaky hinge’s usual protests


    32. In the mid 1990s, an economic collapse led to massive public protests


    33. American protests against the assassinations are largely limited to activists such as Code Pink, Iraqi Veterans Against the War, and Quaker and Catholic groups


    34. The rest of my protests died in my throat


    35. Because of popular protests


    36. Gonzalez had trouble finding work for two years before he became a diversity recruiter at Texas Tech University over the protests of much of the faculty and student body


    37. Only after years of protests did Kennedy reluctantly put forward a civil rights bill that he was unable to pass


    38. Our orders were to stop their printing presses, break up the protests and bring the organizers to justice – or kill them: it didn’t matter any longer, but time did


    39. Sandinista activists seized upon the opportunity of focused international media by staging enormous protests and provoking confrontations with the Guardia Nacional, even in the midst of rescue efforts


    40. It made my protests about his gifts seem pretty stupid when I was constantly using the things I said I didn’t want

    41. Gore in fact faced protests by AIDS activists over his lobbying for drug companies, pressuring South Africa's government to not allow cheaper generic anti-AIDS drugs


    42. At the very least there would continue to be massive protests against the American occupation


    43. Butter! She piled on pats of the golden treasure and poured enough syrup to drown any protests from her conscience


    44. Public protests would not let him turn away


    45. In spite of his protests, one of his neighbours phoned for an ambulance, but the message came back that they could not send any ambulances because more bombs were expected to go off


    46. Some sort of vague thinking in which the protests wanted to remonstration about something but they did not know what they really were protesting about


    47. A monotone voice instructed the staff and guest that there was no need for panic and that this was just a precaution to deal with the excessive protests that were being encountered at the bottom of Holyrood Road and festivities would re-commence shortly once the situation outside was stabilised


    48. The general’s protests were politely interrupted by the Arch-minister waving a dismissive hand and saying as he reached for another cup of uwe:


    49. Amonas kept on singing heedless of Hilderich’s protests, thinking he would be soundly asleep before the song would come to a finish


    50. With some effort he gathered his wits and cast aside the protests of his mind to see, hear, touch and wonder wide-eyed at this inexplicable, majestic building that challenged reason at every opportunity












































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    Synonyms for "protest"

    dissent objection protest protestation resist expostulate demur object disagree remonstrate rally demonstration affirm asseverate attest aver avow declare testify

    "protest" definitions

    a formal and solemn declaration of objection


    the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent


    the act of making a strong public expression of disagreement and disapproval


    utter words of protest


    express opposition through action or words


    affirm or avow formally or solemnly