Sample Sentences for
diatribe
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  • Her arms were folded, her lips were pursed, and she seemed to be chewing her tongue, as though biting back the furious diatribe she longed to throw at Harry.  (source)
    diatribe = a strongly felt and usually lengthy criticism
  • There was no lack of passion in his diatribe.  (source)
  • But I hear there are pressing reasons for our friend Lawrence's diatribe:  (source)
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  • Mom manufactured a plethora of tears to accompany her long-suffering mother diatribe.  (source)
    diatribe = a strongly felt and usually lengthy criticism
  • Several long, incoherent diatribes from gunters whose quest for the egg had clearly driven them insane.†  (source)
  • That got quite a few laughs from my colleagues, who were expecting a diatribe from me; on the one hand, they complain about my "predictable politics," but they are just like the students—they enjoy getting me riled up.†  (source)
  • There he writes angry diatribes about the world around him.†  (source)
  • Her mother told her not to worry and launched into a diatribe about the medical technologies of the seventies until Alma interrupted her.†  (source)
  • I don't know what happened between Lamp and here, but he's relaxed now, the circular diatribes put away for the moment.†  (source)
  • The voice of the lecturer rose like the ringing of a cracked bell, his diatribe brief but strident.†  (source)
  • Mom eavesdrops on Abuela and me then lambastes us with one of her sixty-odd diatribes when she doesn't like what she hears.†  (source)
  • I'm tipsy enough that my brain isn't bombarding me with a diatribe on how idiotic I am.†  (source)
  • For I had been quietly considering various revenges upon him, drawing up the ways I would pay him back for his diatribes and affronts, my plans including, too, the-most extreme of acts.†  (source)
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