How to Use backlash in a Sentence

backlash

noun

• 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
• But the Antonoff backlash doesn’t get that right, either.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2022
• 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
• The show has prompted backlash and support from those on both sides of the issue.
  — Jon Brown, Fox News, 22 Dec. 2022
• 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
• The proposal has been met with strong backlash by Jordan and Egypt, as well as most of the Arab world.
  — Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
• Auburn’s hiring of Freeze came with its share of backlash from fans and outsiders alike.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], 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
• With Wayne slamming the backlash against Belichick, some fans flipped his words against him.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 13 Dec. 2024
• 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
• This led to a fierce backlash against her from many of the right-wing elements in Germany and in other parts of the world as well.
  — Stephen Farber, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Sep. 2022
• The results of those bans have already drawn an intense backlash of their own.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 26 Sep. 2022
• The move has prompted backlash from civil rights groups.
  — Marco Marcelline, PCMAG, 21 Dec. 2022
• The ensuing backlash wasn’t just the result of a rabid fan base.
  — Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2022
• Barr faced a backlash from Trump after telling him there was no widespread fraud in the 2020 election.
  — Arkansas Online, 3 Sep. 2022
• 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 release of the bulletin was met with backlash from soccer coaches.
  — Nik Streng, oregonlive, 27 Sep. 2022
• The airline then walked back some of those changes after facing backlash.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 9 Nov. 2023
• Rogan also faced a backlash over his use of the N-word in older episodes of his podcast.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 30 Nov. 2022
• 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
• Anti-mask laws didn’t weaken the Klan — public backlash did, decades before the law was ever used against them.
  — N. Goldberg, New York Daily News, 9 Apr. 2025
• Nathan Howard | Reuters The president for days has insisted that his tariffs would not be lifted, despite turmoil in the markets and backlash from investors, voters and allies.
  — Dan Mangan,kevin Breuninger,jeff Cox,christina Wilkie,erin Doherty,ruxandra Iordache, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2025