How to Use vitriol in a Sentence
vitriol
noun- His speech was full of political vitriol.
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And the residue of the Koch funded right-wing vitriol from that fight still lingers.
— Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2021 -
The media loves to play up that kind of vitriol from the far right.
— Harold Maass, theweek, 15 May 2024 -
The vitriol has led to an increase in hate crimes in Maryland and across the country.
— Ovetta Wiggins, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2022 -
The vitriol between the two men is never far from the surface.
— New York Times, 6 Aug. 2022 -
Yet for all the galling vitriol, Manfred does not hide.
— Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023 -
Sophia Nomvete, who is South African and Iranian, have been the subject of much of the racist vitriol.
— Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 8 Sep. 2022 -
That shouldn't create an instant wave of fan vitriol and demands for the next guy to come in the game.
— Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 2 May 2018 -
And like most conflicts, the vitriol doesn’t stay contained in one place.
— Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2023 -
The Times has been a frequent target of Musk’s vitriol.
— Chris Morris, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2023 -
Roice’s lawyers, the post led to a wave of threats and vitriol from Baldwin’s followers.
— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 5 May 2022 -
Chiles also tried to protect her friend from the vitriol of the outside world.
— Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Sep. 2021 -
But the fact my kids saw a lot of the vitriol and hatred towards me, that in itself was taxing and hard.
— Ed O’Bannon, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2021 -
So with all this social media vitriol, why go on the show at all?
— De Elizabeth, Glamour, 9 May 2019 -
The other surprising thing is just the vitriol and the hate that gets thrown at these women.
— Neha Prakash, Marie Claire, 8 Apr. 2021 -
The sheer volume of vitriol and crap kept beating mods down too.
— Paresh Dave, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2024 -
Why does the image of Christ conjure such vitriol for one of them and such comfort for the other?
— Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 26 Jan. 2024 -
Right now, there's a lot of vitriol in Washington there's a lot of reasons for it.
— CBS News, 1 Dec. 2019 -
The bus was all blacked out, of course, but that didn’t stop people around me from rushing to the sidewalk to hurl their vitriol and flip their birds.
— Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023 -
Some were courageous saints who tried to take on the ignorance and vitriol.
— Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press, 12 May 2018 -
Just imagine the pain and the vitriol that immigrants must go through in a strange country and in a strange language.
— Meaghan Winter, The Atlantic, 26 July 2021 -
The anger and vitriol directed at the teenagers was condemned around the world, and set off a new chapter in the Civil Rights movement.
— Kayla Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 13 Jan. 2022 -
As news of the Byrd’s death spread, members of the KKK came to town to disavow connection to the killing with speeches laced with racist vitriol.
— Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023 -
That vitriol politicized the idea of day care, poisoning the debate for decades.
— Bryce Covert, The New Republic, 1 May 2018 -
People are still psyched to go to the movies; the fanbase for this one just felt let down (there’s certainly a lot of vitriol out there).
— Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2024 -
Internet chat rooms and sports talk radio shows across the state crackled with vitriol for much of the past week.
— Jeff Duncan, NOLA.com, 22 Sep. 2017 -
Things Lu couldn’t account for, all the sorrow and spite, the vitriol and piety, that suddenly had free rein.
— The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021 -
That's the vitriol that happens on the other side so don't pretend that this doesn't happen.
— Fox News, 11 Aug. 2018 -
One European seller expressed concern to us this week that their booth could be a target of ‘anti-Hollywood’ vitriol if the election goes against Trump.
— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024 -
But the narrative doesn’t need to be controlled by people who are just on their keyboards spewing hate and negative vitriol everywhere.
— Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
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