How to Use vitriol in a Sentence

vitriol

noun

• His speech was full of political vitriol.
• 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
• Koffi flinched away from the accusation in her head, from the vitriol in it.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 27 Sep. 2021
• The recent wave of vitriol is forcing some to reckon with a growing disconnect among their audiences.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024