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How to use tirade in a sentence

22 example sentences · noun, verb

Tirade means a long, angry or violent speech. Example: “I came here to buy souvenirs, not to be subjected to a tirade of abuse!”

Examples of tirade by meaning

nounA long, angry or violent speech.

  • come out with a tirade
  • release a tirade
  • a lengthy tirade against one's rivals

More sentences with tirade

  • I came here to buy souvenirs, not to be subjected to a tirade of abuse!From the entry subject
  • When she heard the news, she let rip a tirade heard throughout the office.From the entry let rip
  • My father punctuated his tirade with thumps on the desk.From the entry punctuate
  • She let rip with a tirade everyone heard.From the entry let rip
  • “I did not initiate, welcome, encourage, engage in, or learn from much less enjoy, Bailey’s tirade.2024 July 25, Kara Scannell, “Judge who ordered Trump to pay $454 million says he was ‘accosted’ by lawyer and won’t recuse himself from…. From the entry defamatorily
  • His tirade contained a torrent of expletives that were bleeped out by his press service.2023 May 5, Unknown, “Wagner Group 'to pull out of Bakhmut'”, in RTHK. From the entry bleep out
  • The pope has not said if Milei’s tirades have got under his skin.2023 August 27, Uki Goñi, “The ‘false prophet’ v the pope: Argentina faces clash of ideologies in election”, in The Observer, →ISSN. From the entry get under someone's skin
  • But his tirades have earned him a reprimand––if a brief, vague one––from his own Supreme Court nominee.2017 February 15, Peter Beinart, “American Institutions Are Fighting Back Against Trump”, in The Atlantic. From the entry fulminate
  • She ignored me and went on with her tirade against the youth.2010, George Pontius, Grace over the Long Run. From the entry spokeslady
  • Then a terrible misfortune misfell one of the neighbors who was most bitter in his tirades.2009, Eric B. Hare, Skyscrapers. From the entry misfall
  • For the first time, Brooks’ ear-chewing tirades are madly, climbingly funny.1985 May, James Wolcott, “Fish Story”, in Texas Monthly, page 178. From the entry climbingly
  • And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC. From the entry good
  • And Vickers launched forth in a tirade very different from his platform utterances.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 203. From the entry occasion
  • Anyway, her head was still killing her and the sound of Frost's tirade wasn't doing it any favours.2014, Will Jordan, Betrayal, page 214. From the entry not do someone any favours
  • In addition, during the mid-nineteenth century, antiphilosophical tirades began to multiply, particularly in conservative reactions against rationalist perspectives on Israelite religion.2012, Jaco Gericke, The Hebrew Bible and Philosophy of Religion, page 62. From the entry antiphilosophical
  • Stephenson had already worked himself into something just short of a foam-flecked tirade by the time Will arrived.2012, Ian Tregillis, Bitter Seeds. From the entry foam-flecked
  • Rivalry is one thing, but your tirade is childish chickenpoop.1998 April 21, Speerjf, “Marine Corps/Army question”, in alt.folklore.military (Usenet), archived from the original on 03 Jun 2026. From the entry chickenpoop
  • Allen was baited by an obnoxious tirade from a proselyte of the Revolutionary Socialist League — an ugly combination of personal attack and Stalinoid rhetoric.1974 February 2, John Kyper, “Governor of California”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 32, page 4. From the entry Stalinoid
  • After unleashing a tirade of profanity: Lawrence Will recorded his response as: “Dag-nabbit, I can't even set foot on the blasphemous property to see what in the hooraw I've bought!”2006, Michael Grunwald, The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise, →ISBN, page 785. From the entry hooraw

Meaning of tirade

  1. noun A long, angry or violent speech.
  2. noun A section of verse concerning a single theme.
  3. verb To make a long, angry or violent speech, a tirade.

Full definition of tirade

Questions about tirade in a sentence

How do you use tirade in a sentence?
Tirade is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I came here to buy souvenirs, not to be subjected to a tirade of abuse!”
What is a short sentence with tirade?
“release a tirade”
What does tirade mean?
Tirade means a long, angry or violent speech.

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