How to Use lambaste in a Sentence

lambaste

verb

• The coach lambasted the team for its poor play.
• They wrote several letters lambasting the new law.
• An heir to the Chrysler family declared his intent to buy the brand back from Stellantis and lambasted Tavares and other executives.
  — William Gavin, Quartz, 31 Oct. 2024
• Sydneysiders in their 20s and 30s took to social media to lambaste the ad.
  — Washington Post, 15 July 2021
• The idea was deservedly lambasted by those on the left, right, and center.
  — Tiffany Donnelly, The Mercury News, 5 June 2024
• On April 20, the president took to Twitter to lambaste the cartel's push for higher prices.
  — Houston Chronicle, 25 May 2018
• Most important, listen to the doubters, don’t lambaste them.
  — Stewart Easterby, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2018
• The mom then hilariously lambastes her husband for not switching to Spectrum and for the idea of putting the hole in their wall.
  — Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Feb. 2024
• Sanders saw CNN’s retraction as an opening to lambaste the channel more.
  — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 June 2017
• Over the past few years, many have done a complete 180 and have embraced the former president after lambasting him in the past.
  — Hannah Demissie, ABC News, 9 July 2024
• The White House has reserved most of its ire for top airlines, lambasting them for a raft of fees that Biden has described as costly and unfair.
  — Tony Romm, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
• In the public backlash at the time, senior politicians as well as Clarkson’s own daughter lambasted the op-ed.
  — Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 1 July 2023
• And there is hope that the brutal honesty of coach Michael Malone, lambasting his team’s Game 2 effort, will serve as the necessary wake-up call.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2023
• Cruz has joked at least three times about the trip, largely as an effort to lambaste high-profile Democrats for taking vacation.
  — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Nov. 2021
• But when Sedgwick proceeded to lambaste Darwin in public, the mild-mannered Henslow pulled him back.
  — Christoph Irmscher, WSJ, 28 June 2019
• Needless to say, this analogy was such a howler that many, many people besides just me took fingers to keyboard to lambaste Robert Bryce, the author of that OpEd.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2011
• In January 2023, the Border Patrol union lambasted her lack of progress.
  — Theara Coleman, theweek, 3 July 2024
• In a final post that seemed to conclude his rant, Trump lambasted Engoron for being biased due to the gag order and the lack of a jury, both things that were Trump’s own doing.
  — Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2023
• The president's son had a plea agreement with the Justice Department related to tax and gun charges that many on the Right lambasted as a sweetheart deal.
  — Emily Jacobs, Washington Examiner, 11 Aug. 2023
• This is the same Partnership that once lobbied behind the scenes in Washington to kill Cape Wind, and helped pay for full-page newspaper ads to publicly lambaste it.
  — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2019
• The announcement was met with some skepticism from Black consumers, who lambasted the founder for being a sellout.
  — Byruth Umoh, Fortune, 5 June 2024
• If schools are closed and conditions are not sufficiently treacherous, parents lambaste the city for leaving them to deal with child care while the adults still have to show up to their jobs.
  — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2019
• On Tuesday night, as the city’s go team fanned out across 14th Street NW to knock on doors with fireworks safety fliers, an angry resident emerged from his house to lambaste the officers.
  — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 2 July 2020
• Critics lambasted the matchmaking while the clip went viral.
  — Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023
• The chief has even openly defied media and civilian critics who lambasted him.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 12 May 2024
• Walz lambasted Trump over his friendship with billionaire and X owner Elon Musk.
  — Mabinty Quarshie, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 11 Oct. 2024
• In a speech on the Senate floor on Thursday morning, Schumer likewise lambasted the aid legislation.
  — Lauren Peller, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2023
• The couple’s recent wedding is now at the center of an online firestorm after one of their guests filmed their entire big day and posted it all, and got lambasted as a result.
  — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 27 June 2024
• Though the internet lambasted Macron’s jeans-and-a-hoodie as an attempt to copy Ukraine’s wartime leader, his look was less post-Maidan everyman, and more 2000s tech bro.
  — Hazlitt, 12 May 2022
• During the public comment period, residents both praised and lambasted the mayor.
  — Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 10 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024