How to Use propaganda in a Sentence

propaganda

noun
  • The report was nothing but lies and propaganda.
  • He was accused of spreading propaganda.
  • Bachelet must give the voice to the victims rather than aid the state propaganda.
    — Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 29 May 2022
  • Yet children were killed, even if there is false propaganda about their deaths.
    — Mahsa Alimardani, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Which gets us to the propaganda.
    — Oskar Garcia, New York Times, 15 June 2026
  • Which is not to say that art as propaganda cannot be effective.
    — Isabel Ruehl, The Atlantic, 25 June 2026
  • The point was to be made on film, the lingua franca of wartime propaganda.
    — Big Think, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Propaganda is produced by all sides in war.
    — Scott Simon, NPR, 28 Mar. 2026
  • That’s just a ruse, that’s propaganda, that’s not real.
    — Evan Drellich, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
  • Our hotel featured her clever work of propaganda on its shelves.
    — New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
  • But that's how propaganda works.
    — Michal Ruprecht, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025
  • All this was part of a broader propaganda push on the part of the Kremlin.
    — Ilan Berman, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Culture must never be used to whitewash crimes or serve as a propaganda tool.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Political satire and propaganda have been used as a weapon of war for decades.
    — CBS News, 24 May 2026
  • The image of David was a still frame from a Hamas propaganda video.
    — Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • That's not polling, that's propaganda!
    — Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
  • That's not propaganda ‒ that's truth.
    — Nicole Russell, USA Today, 1 Jan. 2026
  • In the propaganda videos, the two hostages are seen speaking on camera under duress.
    — Olivia Gazis, CBS News, 3 May 2024
  • But when Kreiz took charge, that kind of propaganda was not working broadly enough.
    — Willa Paskin, New York Times, 11 July 2023
  • Fox News is the largest right-wing propaganda network in the country.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2023
  • What this really means is the creation of more propaganda and more tools to crack down on dissent.
    — Yegor Mostovshikov, The Dial, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Still, public support for the war remains high, thanks to state propaganda.
    — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Steel makers put sinews of war into the propaganda chest and pronounced it good for business.
    — Charles Austin Beard, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
  • What is the difference between art used for protest and propaganda?
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Image Warring sides have spread lies and propaganda for as long as there has been armed conflict.
    — Anupreeta Das, New York Times, 17 May 2025
  • Trump has a mighty propaganda network behind him (Fox is the mere tip of that iceberg).
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 28 Aug. 2023
  • In the end, China didn’t even need to lure the world into peddling its propaganda.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2022
  • The record was really more of a tool to use for…maybe propaganda is the best word…to keep pushing forward with this new band.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Trump, parroting this pastoral propaganda, tried to kill me off during his first term, but was stopped by the courts.
    — Joe Mathews, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2025
  • There’s a lot that feels timely about greed versus governance and myths and propaganda.
    — Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 17 June 2026

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