How to Use screed in a Sentence

screed

noun
  • In her screed against the recording industry, she blamed her producer for ruining her career.
  • On its face, the dossier is a screed full of blatant nonsense.
    The Editors, National Review, 6 Nov. 2021
  • Daily screeds from Trump about how crooked the judge was, how the whole thing is rigged against him.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 30 May 2024
  • Infowars’s Jones caters to the alt-right in his politics and screeds.
    Graham Lanktree, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2017
  • But based on a heated screed the Rock Hall of Famer posted on his site this week, the road might have an end.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Bay Area man, allegedly found with cache of weapons and a racist screed, faces felony charges.
    Taylor Kate Brown, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 July 2021
  • Last year, Flake released a book that was largely viewed as a screed against Trump.
    James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • The nub of his lecture was a screed against the institutions that comprise the British state.
    The Economist, 20 Nov. 2020
  • A long screed about a film to someone at a hotel bar who, turns out, produced it.
    Tatiana Siegel, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2017
  • Ackman’s screed is far from the first attack on DEI in recent years.
    Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Now that our safety screed is complete, the path is your oyster.
    Max Falkowitz, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The book is no screed but a celebration in pictures and words of what’s been lost in the course of change and sometimes progress.
    Harry Siegel, New York Daily News, 6 July 2024
  • Earlier that day, I’d been sent a long screed on Twitter by a stranger about the basic truths of QAnon.
    Talia Lavin, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2020
  • The time to write a warning or a screed based on the instability of the market was July 2022.
    Kathleen Breitman, Fortune Crypto, 20 July 2023
  • On the other hand, Ducey's tweeted his screed just in time for national media on the East Coast to pick up on it.
    Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 2 July 2019
  • The screed was well received by Trump's campaign manager Brad Parscale, who used it to slam the media.
    Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2020
  • Their screeds have been met with anger from many fans, from suggestions the hosts kill themselves to pages of point-by-point retorts.
    Chris Kornelis, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2018
  • The three-minute screed earned him a standing ovation, according to video of the scene and lawmakers who were there.
    Jenna Portnoy, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2018
  • In the screed, Horowitz claims a vast criminal conspiracy carried out at polling places in many of the 50 states.
    Ronald Radosh, The New Republic, 5 May 2021
  • Cut a piece of lumber to fit from one screed to the other, notching it, if necessary, to fit between them [4].
    Peter Martin, Popular Mechanics, 1 Aug. 2020
  • Larson's score remains a mix of soul-stirring ballads and shrill screeds.
    Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The gunman used racial slurs, left behind a racist screed and drew swastikas on his firearm, authorities said.
    Eric Levenson, CNN, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Good luck with those in an age when the screed and the accusation have become our basic prose genres.
    Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 25 May 2022
  • Even Trump eventually tired of Pirro's screed and walked out of the room, according to the person.
    The New York Times, NOLA.com, 10 Dec. 2017
  • Despite being a repetitive, off-putting screed, Kafka’s text is not a stranger to the stage, and it has even been turned into an opera.
    New York Times, 28 Feb. 2021
  • Pino draws his data from a screed by Chris Edwards, the tax policy chief at the Cato Institute.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2022
  • But would what is essentially a bribe make the whole thing feel inauthentic? Do not take this not a screed against the NBA or its stars.
    Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Or will the screeds and screams convince Iowans, questing after the most electable pick, that Biden is the candidate the Trump team fears more than any other Democrat?
    Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 25 Jan. 2020
  • In the meantime, Chiles has been bullied by more than just the IOC; she has been relentlessly ripped on social media, including with racist screeds.
    Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Rather than a call for democratic freedom, Henry’s mantra has become a radical screed.
    John Ragosta / Made By History, TIME, 1 July 2024

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