Sample Sentences for
fulminate
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fulminate as in:  fulminate against the plan

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She fulminated against the plan to reduce spending on education.
fulminated = criticized severely
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    She fulminated against the legislation.
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    He might be denouncing Goldstein and demanding sterner measures against thought-criminals and saboteurs, he might be fulminating against the atrocities of the Eurasian army, he might be praising Big Brother or the heroes on the Malabar front-it made no difference.  (source)
    fulminating = criticizing severely
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    Not infrequently during their visits, Franz recalls, McCandless's face would darken with anger and he'd fulminate about his parents or politicians or the endemic idiocy of mainstream American life.†  (source)
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    Though it was now dark, I knew he was awake; because I heard him fulminating strange anathemas at finding himself lying in a pool of water.†  (source)
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    And at its foot, here and there, a mosaic of white bones, a still unrotted carcase dark on the tawny ground marked the place where deer or steer, puma or porcupine or coyote, or the greedy turkey buzzards drawn down by the whiff of carrion and fulminated as though by a poetic justice, had come too close to the destroying wires.†  (source)
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    I left Mrs. Brown to her fulminations and returned to class.†  (source)
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    "Vienna," says Volkheimer, and Neumann Two fulminates about Hapsburg palaces and Wiener schnitzel and girls whose vulvas taste like apple strudel.†  (source)
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    Then, after one fulminating stare, he threw back his head and laughed.†  (source)
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    When he fulminated against fashionable society he always spoke of its "trend"; and to Mrs. Archer it was terrifying and yet fascinating to feel herself part of a community that was trending.†  (source)
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    He also showed that, for all the British fulminations about American usage, they could not resist adopting Americanisms: "Even to belittle, which had provoked an almost hysterical outburst from the European Magazine and London Review when Thomas Jefferson ventured to use it in 1787, was so generally accepted by 1862 that Anthony Trollope admitted it to his chaste vocabulary."†  (source)
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    Hungry Joe likes lingering diseases, but he likes the fulminating ones even more.†  (source)
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    Smith seethed and fulminated, and made increasingly desperate pleas for more bombardment.†  (source)
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    Wasn't he to take Clara's fulminations so seriously, after all?†  (source)
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fulminate as in:  the nitroglycerin fulminated

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But get them out in the field in a combat exercise, or anything that gets them keyed up and full of adrenaline, and they're as explosive as a hatful of mercury fulminate.†  (source)
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