How to Use agitprop in a Sentence

agitprop

noun
  • And the best stuff is hard to find amid the rows and rows of agitprop.
    — Jason Kehe, Wired, 7 July 2021
  • Nobody would say your movies are agitprop….
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 24 Mar. 2026
  • But then the show became a strident piece of agitprop that strained credulity.
    — Omid Khazani and Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Hodgkinson had spouted far left agitprop for some time before making his way east.
    — Richard Rainey, NOLA.com, 17 June 2017
  • First-rate agitprop has a way of drifting far from its primary causes.
    — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2017
  • At one end, perhaps, is blunt agitprop, and at the other is pure abstraction.
    — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2020
  • That is a lie, a Big Lie in fact, nothing more than Democrat agitprop.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 18 Sep. 2025
  • To the contrary, a nation facing real threats can’t afford such agitprop.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 29 Dec. 2022
  • But Beethoven can do little for Harris’ and Blanchett‘s agitprop.
    — Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The act was intentional, agitprop for the social media age.
    — Lilit Marcus, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Ken Loach’s brutally moving agitprop drama demands a thought be spared for the anonymous souls who drop this stuff off.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Twice a week, Leshchenko appears in the room to record a short video debunking the latest in Russian agitprop.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2022
  • The film approaches the relentlessness of agitprop, yet its message is finely honed.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Anti-gay agitprop had been a staple of Hollywood for decades; what was pro-gay agitprop but a long-overdue attempt to fight fire with fire?
    — Mark Harris, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Now that same group is apparently being mobilized to publish agitprop.
    — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2026
  • One of the hallmarks of these prior conferences was political agitprop.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 23 May 2010
  • Pratt’s proved to be both an effective producer as well as distributor of digital agitprop.
    — Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 20 May 2026
  • This agitprop is paired with the infiltration of institutions.
    — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2018
  • Performance artists who use punk, poetry and situational agitprop as their tools.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Add media songbirds chirping economic-killing agitprop—No-Grows with a megaphone.
    — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Tübke painted gargantuan agitprop pieces, but in the manner of Tintoretto.
    — Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Every year the Mime Troupe premieres a new agitprop musical and performs it for free at outdoor venues around the Bay Area.
    — Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 9 July 2019
  • Last Friday night, then, the delegations marched into Beijing’s arena of agitprop, and the rebels stayed behind the scenes.
    — Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Yet El centinela abrirá fuego III reads less as agitprop than as a warning about the bloody cost of political involvement.
    — Daniel R. Quiles, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026
  • In a dystopian twist, the ever-expanding void left in the wake of all this creative destruction is being filled by websites masquerading as local news outlets that serve up right-wing agitprop.
    — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Broker may be too sappy for some, and at times it could be taken for pro-life agitprop, but I was warmed by its portrait of child-rearing as a communal responsibility.
    — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 28 May 2022
  • His humor provided the reality check on Chuck’s virtuoso agitprop tirades.
    — Armond White, National Review, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Speaking of the British empire, the Revolutionary War episodes were a good bit of pro-King George agitprop.
    — Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2026
  • Every ruling class needs propaganda, and Ready Player One is agitprop for the geek gods that reign on the Internet.
    — Ryan Smith, Chicago Reader, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Far from being agitprop provocateurs, their ingenuity was driven strictly by the artistic need to resolve dramatic problems.
    — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018

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