How to Use backlash in a Sentence

backlash

noun
  • The show has prompted backlash and support from those on both sides of the issue.
    Jon Brown, Fox News, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The ensuing backlash wasn’t just the result of a rabid fan base.
    Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2022
  • With Wayne slamming the backlash against Belichick, some fans flipped his words against him.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 13 Dec. 2024
  • That led to a public backlash from the politicians who had protected Adel.
    AZCentral.com, 8 Jan. 2023
  • The danger, though, is how intense the backlash is at the moment, especially against the elites and the technocrats.
    Patrick J. Deneen, Harper’s Magazine , 5 Jan. 2023
  • The agency quickly walked back those comments in response to a political backlash, saying a ban isn’t on the table.
    Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The news prompted backlash across social media, as some expressed their opposition to the role being portrayed by a non-white actress.
    Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2023
  • An interesting indie year lies ahead… Adele has always been that rarest breed of British superstar: the one who hasn’t had any sort of backlash against them.
    Mark Sutherland, Variety, 22 Dec. 2022
  • So much for a post-strikes backlash against the streamers!
    Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Dec. 2023
  • And Garth Brooks has something to say about the Bud Light backlash.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 13 June 2023
  • The San Diego backlash over a mileage tax may be just the beginning.
    IEEE Spectrum, 28 Jan. 2023
  • The backlash appeared to have caught Bud Light by surprise.
    Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 31 May 2023
  • On the other there were the people ticked off by the knowledge that there was any backlash at all.
    Richard Lawler, The Verge, 16 May 2024
  • In 2018, Wu opened up about backlash she's faced for dating non-Asian men.
    Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2023
  • But by the 1980s, backlash to these goals was ascendant.
    Adia Harvey Wingfield, The Conversation, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Auburn’s hiring of Freeze came with its share of backlash from fans and outsiders alike.
    Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 12 Feb. 2023
  • This time, the backlash against Biden’s buyback tax took me by surprise.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 7 Mar. 2023
  • To be sure, there is little coherence to the backlash against EVs.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Will there be more outrage, protests and backlash on Oct. 7, less than a month out from Election Day?
    Candy Woodall, Baltimore Sun, 12 Aug. 2024
  • The backlash and cases like Cox’s raise a couple of key questions: Do pro-life laws change the culture?
    Nicole Russell, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Musk’s own attempts to respond to the backlash went poorly.
    Laura Bratton, Quartz, 5 June 2024
  • Some have posited that the tensions at Giant Rock may be fueled, in part, by the same kind of backlash.
    Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
  • And nowhere has seen more backlash to date than little Bal Harbour.
    Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The airline then walked back some of those changes after facing backlash.
    Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 9 Nov. 2023
  • But there has been a backlash in recent years against the groups, which tend to oppose big changes and ambitious projects.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Suddenly, Butch was caught at the center of mass backlash.
    Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2024
  • But the book also details Ford’s life after the confirmation: the death threats, the upheaval, the backlash.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Gosling is at the top of his industry and was willing to put himself out there and support his co-star and colleagues – even in the midst of the backlash.
    Teresa Hopke, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The video received over 700 thousand likes as well as some backlash, but Fritz was quick to defend his girlfriend.
    Jamie Ballard, Peoplemag, 11 Aug. 2023
  • But Li resigned barely two years later amid an outpouring of backlash from fans over the team’s lackluster performance in the 2022 World Cup qualifiers.
    Nectar Gan, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024

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