How to Use fulminate in a Sentence

fulminate

verb

• She was fulminating about the dangers of smoking.
• The editorial fulminated against the proposed tax increase.
• But with the 2020 election, the show also no longer had Donald Trump to fulminate against.
  — Washington Post, 8 July 2021
• New and radical groups like Black First Land First sprang up, holding public rallies to fulminate against whites.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2018
• Mr. Bell fulminated in a recent video posted on YouTube.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2017
• In answer, a furious Trump weaved and bobbed, fulminating about walls, fake news, and hoaxes, but of course, never going near the question.
  — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2019
• During the campaign, Trump fulminated about journalism and the internet, with threats to both.
  — Dan Gillmor, Slate Magazine, 3 Feb. 2017
• In a perfect world, people would not use screechy hyperbole to fulminate against those who don't share their position on a given issue.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 17 Dec. 2012
• Coaches such as Leach and Clemson’s Dabo Swinney, who also fulminated against the bill, don’t want players to be able to get out from under their paternal thumb.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2019
• Democrats were still fulminating (legitimately) about that when Biden signed the IRA into law, so the press mostly ignored the buyback tax’s creation.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 7 Mar. 2023
• Having fulminated against Obamacare for so long, Republicans in Congress should not have needed the president to tell them what to replace it with.
  — The Economist, 20 July 2017
• The candidate himself would fulminate in his own speech about violence in the streets, but Don Jr. eloquently heralded his father’s common touch.
  — Sarah Ellison, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2020
• Netanyahu spent the week before the hearing fulminating against leaks from the investigations into his conduct and demanding that the pre-trial hearing be made public and aired live.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2019
• Elon Musk famously fulminated about the horrific violent crime in San Francisco and the attackers who get set free.
  — Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2023
• Like the town of Simons, Dolgeville also fielded an amateur baseball team, and had an official post office, a bank, and a firehouse, where locals met in 1906 to fulminate about the brothels and saloons thriving outside of the town limits.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2021
• In a statement released shortly after news of his indictment broke, the former president raged and fulminated at his persecutors.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
• All this has reduced the DeSantis camp to fulminating powerlessly.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• Despite the fulminating royal statement, every Thai knows that no one can beat the king himself for ingratitude, misbehaviour and disloyalty.
  — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
• There are football fans and observers fulminating against the idea of additional playoff participants.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2019
• In a year in which politicians have fulminated about global cybertampering with elections, this recount was decidedly low-tech, with election workers tallying votes with handwritten red hash marks.
  — John Leland, New York Times, 15 July 2019
• Where Republicans could fulminate freely, Democrats had to go somewhat gingerly, trying to thread the needle, to hold a lawless president responsible for violating the Constitution without setting off a backlash that would hand him a second term.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Dec. 2019
• For the second day in a row, President Trump sent a series of tweets fulminating against America’s supposedly weak immigration policies and attacking Democrats for sabotaging a program his own administration is trying to end.
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 2 Apr. 2018
• As for women, Moore was the Democrats’ jackpot — a supposedly religious conservative flamboyantly fulminating against immorality who was himself a child molester.
  — Mona Charen, National Review, 13 Dec. 2017
• His chief adviser, Seumas Milne, devoted much of his journalistic career at the Guardian to fulminating against American imperialism.
  — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
• She was fulminating about the dangers of smoking.
• The editorial fulminated against the proposed tax increase.
• But with the 2020 election, the show also no longer had Donald Trump to fulminate against.
  — Washington Post, 8 July 2021
• New and radical groups like Black First Land First sprang up, holding public rallies to fulminate against whites.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2018
• Mr. Bell fulminated in a recent video posted on YouTube.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2017
• In answer, a furious Trump weaved and bobbed, fulminating about walls, fake news, and hoaxes, but of course, never going near the question.
  — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2019

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