Below you will find example sentences with "demanding better". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Demanding Better in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: demanding
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 5
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 25.7 words

Words in this phrase

demanding better

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • demanding can mean: Requiring much endurance, strength, or patience. Frequent word
  • better can mean: comparative form of good: more good Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 1 start, 11 middle, 8 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

of demonstrations demanding better pay for 2× are citizens demanding better access to 1× down and demanding better 1× instead of demanding better living conditions 1× legislative building demanding better teacher pay 1× less and demanding better outcomes 1× on strike demanding better working conditions 1× region while demanding better payment for 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

associated press journalists 1× auto workers are 1× but despite falling 1× fagan said workers 1× frankly we need 1× hundreds of coles 1×

Common sentence endings:

law enforcement officers 2× and demanding better 1× and fair wages 1× and medicaid expansion 1× and working conditions 1× balance and more 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

pay 7× workers 5× wages 4× off 4× conditions 4× officers 4× hundreds 3× working 3× law 3× enforcement 3× union 2× walked 2×

Related phrases

get better deserve better getting better better outcomes better equipped better prospects

Phrases around this combination

Just before it in the phrase index:

demanded money delta development delta blues delta air delivery services delivery network

Just after it in the phrase index:

demi moore democrat party democratic candidates democratic congress democratic congressional democratic gov

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same ending:

get better deserve better getting better

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "demanding better" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 25.7 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as of demonstrations demanding better pay for, are citizens demanding better access to, pay, workers and wages stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with get better, deserve better and getting better, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with demanding better

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Workers are demanding better wages, benefits and working conditions. (9 words)

Auto workers are demanding better pay, work-life balance, and more. (11 words)

But despite falling union membership workers are demanding better, demanding respect and fair wages. (14 words)

Longer example sentences

In one case, a group of six labour unionists who had simply been demanding better working conditions were sentenced on 1 August 2023 to 16 years in prison after having been arbitrarily arrested and ill-treated in detention for more than a year. (43 words)

Shortly after noon on Sunday, AP journalists saw dozens of men who said they were off-duty officers march with hundreds of supporters toward the palace in the latest in days of demonstrations demanding better pay for Haitian law-enforcement officers. (41 words)

While I fully appreciate that watching from the stands is completely different to being in the moment, these goals, conceded in this manner, would have my manager at Feering Village on a Sunday morning dressing us down and demanding better. (40 words)

Example sentences (20)

But despite falling union membership workers are demanding better, demanding respect and fair wages.

Auto workers are demanding better pay, work-life balance, and more.

Fagan said workers were demanding better pay but also considered performance targets were unfair.

Hundreds of Coles and Woolworths staff have walked off the job demanding better wages, with one union leader saying some couldn't even afford the groceries their own employers were selling.

More than 250 sanitation workers walked off the job demanding better wages and benefits from their employer, Republic Services.

Frankly, we need to be putting far more money into education, not less, and demanding better outcomes.

In one case, a group of six labour unionists who had simply been demanding better working conditions were sentenced on 1 August 2023 to 16 years in prison after having been arbitrarily arrested and ill-treated in detention for more than a year.

The ‘Johnny’ crooner slammed some Nigerians who are picking sides in the social media war between celebrities instead of demanding better living conditions from the government.

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They were some of the most staunch-looking blokes I’ve ever met and they were demanding better pay for a bunch of queer twentysomething booksellers.

While I fully appreciate that watching from the stands is completely different to being in the moment, these goals, conceded in this manner, would have my manager at Feering Village on a Sunday morning dressing us down and demanding better.

Associated Press journalists saw dozens of men who said they were off-duty officers march with hundreds of supporters toward the palace in the latest in days of demonstrations demanding better pay for Haitian law-enforcement officers.

Moral Monday protesters once regularly marched on North Carolina’s Legislative Building demanding better teacher pay and Medicaid expansion.

Policymakers — and even the most devoted reformers — had to confront a paradox: that the Black and Latino neighborhoods most threatened by police violence are also the ones demanding better and more consistent law enforcement.

Shortly after noon on Sunday, AP journalists saw dozens of men who said they were off-duty officers march with hundreds of supporters toward the palace in the latest in days of demonstrations demanding better pay for Haitian law-enforcement officers.

Shetti and the Sanghatana have often clashed with powerful sugar barons in the region while demanding better payment for cane farmers.

This week, fans of Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham signed a joint letter to Uefa demanding better treatment of fans at major European finals.

Workers are demanding better wages, benefits and working conditions.

Zimbabwe on Friday fired more than 200 public sector doctors who have been on strike for more than two months demanding better pay to protect them from soaring inflation.

The Zimbabwe Nurses Association has withdrawn its case against Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga for allegedly ordering the dismissal of more than 5 000 nurses when they went on strike demanding better working conditions.

When I think about governance, the things that I think about are citizens demanding better access to information, and that is what is driving government decisions.

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