How to Use apoplectic in a Sentence

apoplectic

adjective

• She was positively apoplectic with anger when she realized she had been cheated.
• If one title had a week-to-week decline, Pecker became apoplectic.
  — Lachlan Cartwright, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
• Some of the people in the Trump universe are apoplectic on the subject.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 3 Jan. 2018
• The base of her party has been apoplectic for the better part of three years.
  — John Hirschauer, National Review, 30 Sep. 2019
• And in the loss to the Raiders, Jones was apoplectic as the Patriots struggled to get the right plays called near the goal line.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Dec. 2022
• The house, on the other hand, would have given him a full-on apoplectic fit.
  — Ny Times Syndication, NOLA.com, 19 July 2017
• Network brass, who were not aware of O’Connor’s plan, were apoplectic.
  — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 10 Aug. 2017
• Now many of them were apoplectic at the network’s top talent.
  — Joshua Green, Daily Intelligencer, 9 July 2017
• What made the left even more apoplectic was the president’s manner of sales pitch.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2017
• At the time the tape was made, in the summer of 2021, Trump was apoplectic that Milley’s fears about him were becoming public.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 28 June 2023
• Do nonnative species from the Mediterranean and South Africa make your host apoplectic?
  — Lisa Boonestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2022
• The American press expressed its fair share of disgust, while the British tabloids were apoplectic with rage.
  — Keaton Bell, Vogue, 7 July 2021
• Many in the media were apoplectic when the members of a girls’ robotics team from Afghanistan were denied U.S. visas.
  — Samuel Dubke, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2017
• After the Star of Peace is stolen and the security guards are drugged and everyone is apoplectic, the cops show up.
  — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 18 Nov. 2021
• Johnson’s apoplectic second banana is just a third wheel, in more ways than one.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2023
• The dispute over the name Lady A caused the band the biggest backlash of their 14-year career, as the Internet was apoplectic at the news of their lawsuit.
  — Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2020
• Yes, some on the left were apoplectic about Trump’s refusal at the Group of Seven summit to endorse the Paris agreement on climate change.
  — Marc A. Thiessen, The Denver Post, 31 May 2017
• If this ever happened to Hillary Clinton, the media would be apoplectic.
  — Fox News, 23 May 2018
• Brees has missed one start because of injury in his remarkable 13-year run with the Saints, a fact that has left fans apoplectic with worry.
  — Chris Talbott, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2019
• Trump, who is apoplectic about being banned, plans to spend the final days of his term in office railing against the industry, the person said.
  — Author: Tony Romm, Josh Dawsey, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Jan. 2021
• His drive-by coaching style hasn’t endeared him to a faction of the apoplectic fan base used to Rick Carlisle’s maneuvering.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 31 Mar. 2023
• But taken too far, you can get snowed under and end up working twice as hard while giving your staff apoplectic fits.
  — Christopher Davenport, Forbes, 4 Aug. 2022
• The reaction of the progressives in the media and Hollywood was apoplectic.
  — Orange County Register, 2 Feb. 2017
• Arms control’s high priests and priestesses, and key senators such as Joe Biden and John Kerry, were apoplectic.
  — John R. Bolton, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
• Might also placate all those angry consumers practically apoplectic at the sight of the parade leading out of the doors at the Star.
  — Dallas News, 15 Mar. 2022
• On the Net, people get apoplectic at the thought of cookies and start quoting George Orwell at the mere mention of demographic surveys.
  — Joey Anuff, WIRED, 22 Sep. 1997
• When the flight attendant in first class served macadamia nuts to Cho in an unopened bag, rather than on a plate, the executive daughter became apoplectic.
  — Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2018
• Charleston Coach Earl Grant was understandably apoplectic, but to no avail.
  — Zach Schonbrun, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2018
• Ward’s latest setbacks gave more ammunition to fans who were apoplectic in March when the 49ers re-signed him to one-year deal with $3 million guaranteed.
  — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• Hedwig, the gardener recalled, was apoplectic at the idea of leaving their rural hideaway.
  — Giles Harvey, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 29 Nov 2024