How to Use inveigh in a Sentence

inveigh

verb

• Yet the chamber gave him a bully pulpit from which to inveigh against the ills plaguing the nation.
  — Time, 5 June 2018
• Clerics have inveighed against the idea for years, often in ludicrous terms.
  — The Economist, 27 Sep. 2017
• There was this Sunday school instructor who once used his time before the class to inveigh against adultery.
  — Jarvis Deberry, NOLA.com, 10 May 2017
• Few French politicians can inveigh against injustice with the pleasing turns of the tongue that seem to come so naturally to him.
  — Yascha Mounk, Slate Magazine, 18 Apr. 2017
• Steyer inveighed against the president before a crowd of about 100 people in a small room of the Clifton Cultural Arts Center.
  — Scott Wartman, Cincinnati.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• Even so, Parscale would’ve found a sympathetic ear in the president, who has inveighed against Amazon and its deal with the Postal Service in recent weeks.
  — Fortune, 14 Apr. 2018
• Tens of thousands of women also marched through Paris, inveighing against the patriarchy.
  — NBC News, 9 Mar. 2020
• These days, Ellis, 41, is more than just another clergyman inveighing against the dangers of drinking.
  — Bill Turque, kansascity, 4 Apr. 2018
• Conservatives have long inveighed against class-action lawsuits and the plaintiffs’ lawyers who champion them.
  — Kenneth K. Lee, National Review, 2 Dec. 2019
• The Marxists who are so skillful in the detection and the isolation of heresies used to inveigh against one particular heresy that pleased me particularly.
  — John Dos Passos, National Review, 28 Sep. 2020
• There’s something to the accusation: Peterson inveighs against attempts to change the world as, essentially, a way for people to distract themselves from the much harder work of changing themselves.
  — Park MacDougald, Daily Intelligencer, 11 Feb. 2018
• Lee and Paul, for instance, had inveighed against intervention in Syria and Libya during the Obama administration.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 10 Jan. 2020
• Joining the chorus, in news clips, is Donald Trump, seen early as a candidate and later as president, inveighing against climate-change proponents.
  — Soren Andersen, The Seattle Times, 31 July 2017
• The remainder of the speech then inveighed against terrorists, called for action from Muslim leaders, and articulated some principles around which the United States intends to engage leaders in this effort.
  — Quinn Mecham, Washington Post, 24 May 2017
• On the campaign trail, for example, Trump repeatedly inveighed against intervening in Syria, where Assad's regime has used banned chemical weapons on its own citizens.
  — Alex Johnson, NBC News, 19 June 2017
• Only after the state’s Congressional delegation unanimously inveighed against that stance did Brown commit to reversing it.
  — oregonlive, 25 Apr. 2020
• After a career spent inveighing against government interference in his industry, and testing, protesting, and violating the laws and regulations the Labor Department helps to enforce, Puzder would have made an unlikely watchdog.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2017
• Several prominent local leaders said that condemning child separation or inveighing against AR-15s was an abuse of rabbinical power.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2019
• Republicans, including the president, have been resurfacing Nadler's remarks inveighing against impeachment in 1998 now.
  — Grace Segers, CBS News, 15 Jan. 2020

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