How to Use diatribe in a Sentence

diatribe

noun
  • The article is a diatribe against mainstream media.
  • The whole diatribe is gross, and not in a fun, this-will-become-a-meme sort of way.
    Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 12 June 2023
  • The miracle, though, is that the movie isn’t a diatribe.
    Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2017
  • This will be no diatribe on how Curry gets no love from the refs.
    Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Nov. 2021
  • Trump’s State of the Union: A diatribe against immigrants.
    James Hohmann, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Pearl Harbor’’ diatribe, Belushi didn’t say 10 words the whole movie.
    Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 8 Jan. 2018
  • But Couldn’t Love has gotten a lot of attention over the past few weeks for his diatribe against the Windy City.
    Rebecca Holland, chicagotribune.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • When the host tried to get Scott to walk back some of his comments, Scott paid no attention and kept on with his diatribe.
    Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Lester’s book is nowhere close to being a diatribe of the racing system against the Black driver.
    Ray Glier, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The rest of his diatribe is not fit to print on the website of a family newspaper.
    Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 26 May 2017
  • The caller threatened to kill Berkowitz, who is Jewish, and his wife, in a diatribe laced with racist insults.
    CBS News, 15 Oct. 2020
  • As a toddler, the mere sound of his bellowing diatribes were enough to send me into a fit of sobbing.
    Kristen Falso-Capaldi, Good Housekeeping, 7 June 2017
  • As a toddler, the mere sound of his bellowing diatribes were enough to send me into a fit of sobbing.
    Kristen Falso-Capaldi, Good Housekeeping, 7 June 2017
  • His two-minute diatribe against the press had been watched by 1.5m people within a day of being posted.
    The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
  • For most towns, the bitter diatribe of a man several thousands of miles away would have made no dent at all.
    David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The third book inside the same two covers is a feminist diatribe.
    Tamar Adler, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
  • At least we are left with a series of comic diatribes, each of which could stand on its own as a stinging monologue.
    New York Times, 16 Feb. 2020
  • One fan with a bullhorn led a long and expletive-laced diatribe.
    USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2017
  • His opponents gathered in the streets to denounce him and wrote withering diatribes against him in the press.
    Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2018
  • Each of the three books could be described as a Bernhardian rant, or in some cases a diatribe, centered on the creation and purpose of art.
    Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2022
  • And that does not mean turning this HBO series into a woke diatribe.
    Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2021
  • Upset that his foul-mouthed diatribes were printed in the book, Mr. Knight refused to speak to Feinstein for eight years.
    Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Robin’s diatribe is intercut with flashbacks to 1832 Ohio, with a mob dragging Joseph Smith out of his house.
    Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The diatribe appears to have been in reaction to a student wearing a Marines shirt or sweatshirt.
    Brittny Mejia, latimes.com, 31 Jan. 2018
  • The man launched into a long diatribe about the shadow government, then mass shootings.
    Amanda J. Crawford, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Largely gone were the diatribes against opponents like the United States and Turkey.
    Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2016
  • The angry letters stopped for about six months – until Lewis mailed Brown a fresh diatribe about his triumph in London.
    Lawrence Toppman, charlotteobserver, 20 Aug. 2017
  • Trump reflected briefly on the Earth's size this weekend, during a diatribe against windmills in West Palm Beach.
    Stephen Collinson, CNN, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Trump is still free to talk about Bragg and the judge, who were never covered by the gag order and regularly feature as subjects of his online diatribes.
    Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024
  • What was really extraordinary about the way it was written is actually the dialogue is pretty lean: There aren’t a lot of speeches or long diatribes.
    Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2024

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