How to Use defenestration in a Sentence

defenestration

noun

• The defenestration of Steve Bannon will bring some badly needed calm to the White House, at least in the short term.
  — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2017
• Yet the zeal and speed of his defenestration should give us some discomfort.
  — David Thomas, National Review, 15 Mar. 2022
• There is a risk of course that the G7 may over-reach and the defenestration of the G20 will lead to an inevitable decoupling of global governance.
  — Vasuki Shastry, Forbes, 24 June 2022
• Fresh off its Pruitt defenestration, the left will be looking for new targets, so some advice to the rest of the Trump cabinet: Fly coach.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 5 July 2018
• Many sensed the hand of an older brother with an eye on the future in Andrew’s defenestration.
  — Simon Usborne, Town & Country, 13 Mar. 2022
• Such defenestrations are sad, even to those of us who thought this one necessary.
  — Clifford S. Asness, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2023
• The latest case is that of We Co.’s Adam Neumann, but a few other recent defenestrations support the point.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2019
• And there has been all sorts of faux urgency about the need to elect a speaker so the House, leaderless since McCarthy’s defenestration, can get back to business.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• In the days after Alberta’s defenestration of Licht, followup stories have sought to figure out what went wrong and what’s next.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023
• Nobody knows if any of these charges will stick or if Republicans will now be able to engineer the defenestration of Robert Mueller.
  — William Cummings, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2017
• From there, the party’s best hope was to turn to McHenry, who had been serving as speaker pro tem ever since McCarthy’s defenestration.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2023
• But even with the defenestration of the hammer brigade, people continued to yell at Matt Yglesias, who continued to be unable to block them.
  — Sarah Jeong, The Verge, 2 May 2023
• Whichever account suits your taste, none points to a cold-blooded defenestration.
  — Gregory Krieg, CNN, 13 Mar. 2018
• The defenestration of Boris Johnson had little to do with morality.
  — Alex Story, National Review, 13 July 2022
• These are people that will strongly resist any defenestration of the heir apparent.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 17 May 2018
• The figurative defenestration of public figures such as Prince Alwaleed bin Talal could be a sign that the crown prince is sending a message to potential rivals to the throne.
  — Krishnadev Calamur, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2017
• The defenestration of Warren Kanders from the Whitney Museum boardroom was the most astonishing story of the year.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 4 Jan. 2020
• Tillerson aides later joked that Kennedy’s defenestration was like something out of the Soviet Union, dragging a political foe out into the street and shooting him in the head so as to send a message to others.
  — Jason Zengerle, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2017
• Cheney's defenestration and Stefanik's subsequent ascent were an anticlimax, and not just because the switch-a-roo had been choreographed for weeks.
  — Gregory Krieg, CNN, 15 May 2021
• John Kelly’s ascent to chief of staff, in the wake of the Priebus defenestration, may have set into motion a game of civil-servant musical chairs—or perhaps something slightly more sinister.
  — Abigail Tracy, The Hive, 3 Aug. 2017
• Against that backdrop of foreboding, of darker days ahead, of prime ministerial defenestration and a fresh election, of chaos and confusion, what meaning is there in a state visit?
  — Rob Crilly, CNN, 13 June 2017
• McCabe’s testimony will not be altered by his sudden defenestration at the FBI.
  — Andrew Cohen, Esquire, 19 Mar. 2018
• A digression about the history of defenestration in Scotland shows that even writers as prolific as McCall Smith are not immune to the pleasures of falling down a rabbit hole while doing research.
  — Bethanne Patrick, The Denver Post, 24 Feb. 2017
• Donald Trump sacked Rex Tillerson as secretary of state, announcing the defenestration on Twitter.
  — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
• But the Hashemites are usually disciplined about showing a united front in public: Prince Hassan accepted his defenestration in silence.
  — The Economist, 5 Apr. 2021
• But the indulgence of his novella—scenes of blasphemy, defenestration, disaster, augury—is offset by the Latinate solidity of his prose.
  — Dustin Illingworth, The New Yorker, 20 May 2020
• Still, several investors complained about the manner of Mr Cryan’s defenestration, which could make for a turbulent annual shareholders’ meeting next month.
  — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
• The last time Fatah lost an election, the opposition celebrated with mass defenestration.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 20 Apr. 2021
• But in the aftermath of Mistry’s defenestration, Tata Sons has sought to portray Mistry as a bumbling corporate naïf, dependent for ideas on a coterie of outside advisers and flummoxed by the complexities of running a large conglomerate.
  — Clay Chandler, Fortune, 21 July 2017
• And now, in spite of its electoral success, the supposedly more orthodox and settled Johnson administration that followed the defenestration of Cummings and Cain looks increasingly unstable.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 13 May 2021

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024