sow dissension
Example Sentences
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The hope is clearly to sow dissension within the ranks of his corrupt police and security forces.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025
Some expressed outrage over the disclosure of the document, calling it a gross breach of protocol at the court and an attempt to sow dissension within it.
From Washington Post • May 3, 2022
It created knockoff accounts, such as Black Matters, and outright false ones, such as Blacktivist, to amplify content that was primarily intended to sow dissension.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 21, 2018
Tillerson, a former CEO of ExxonMobil, said news reports about his differences with Trump were the work of people trying to sow dissension.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2017
The Rebel element of the South had gradually come to repose implicit confidence in Johnson, and this fact increased his power to sow dissension and produce discord.
From Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by Blaine, James Gillespie
