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.
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But with the 2020 election, the show also no longer had Donald Trump to fulminate against.
—Washington Post, 8 July 2021
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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
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Mr. Bell fulminated in a recent video posted on YouTube.
—James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2017
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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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During the campaign, Trump fulminated about journalism and the internet, with threats to both.
—Dan Gillmor, Slate Magazine, 3 Feb. 2017
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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All this has reduced the DeSantis camp to fulminating powerlessly.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
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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
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There are football fans and observers fulminating against the idea of additional playoff participants.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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But with the 2020 election, the show also no longer had Donald Trump to fulminate against.
—Washington Post, 8 July 2021
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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
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Mr. Bell fulminated in a recent video posted on YouTube.
—James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2017
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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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