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How to use vehement in a sentence

13 example sentences · adjective

Vehement means showing strong feelings; passionate; forceful or intense. Example: “The man made a vehement display of contempt.”

Examples of vehement by meaning

adjectiveShowing strong feelings; passionate; forceful or intense.

  • The man made a vehement display of contempt.
  • Amy shook her head, vehement.2006, Scott [Bechtel] Smith, The Ruins: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 236
  • “He is the very reason that MAGA started in the first place, and we only have to look at 2016 when he was a vehement Trump hater.2025 July 28, Steve Contorno, quoting Paul Dans, “Project 2025 architect Paul Dans to challenge Lindsey Graham for Senate in South...

More sentences with vehement

  • An incisive producer, who expressed vehement disapproval with my pitch upon my first sentence.From the entry incisive
  • There was the vehement campaign against Labor in the last federal election.2014 May 28, Margaret Simons, “Has Sydney's Daily Telegraph lost touch with its readers?”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian…. From the entry tele
  • Each staccato flare of light was glaring and vehement and expanded into the corners of the room.2005, Matthew Vierling, Last Refuge, →ISBN, page 421. From the entry kill zone
  • He was vehement in his dislike of Orson Welles's versions of Macbeth and Othello.1958, Books - Issues 315-326, page 146. From the entry misfilm
  • Hiram Johnson, the vehement reformer, first raised aloft the banner of nonpartisanism as an answer to California's political waywardness.1968, Gladwin Hill, Dancing bear: an inside look at California politics, page 92. From the entry nonpartisanism
  • Vansittart has long been portrayed as a vehement, if not violent, Germanophobe, the leading member of a like-minded circle of Foreign Office advisers.1997, Michael Lawrence Roi, Alternative to Appeasement, page 9. From the entry Germanophobe
  • A sorcelled mist clouded her mind, and the sounds of the vehement flies and the bated breathing of those around her folded back.1981, A.A. Attanasio, Radix, Corgi Books, →ISBN, page 116. From the entry sorcelled
  • There had been a series of such dispossessions since the beginning of Elizabeth's reign involving many clergy, particularly those of vehement Protestant sympathies.1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 462. From the entry dispossession
  • Not since the year 17--, when milord Castlebrilliant's curricle was whirled to sea with her ladyship within, had there been such vehement weather.1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 49. From the entry curricle
  • Not since the year 17—, when milord Castlebrilliant's curricle was whirled to sea with her ladyship within, had there been such vehement weather.1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, section 49. From the entry milord

Meaning of vehement

  1. adjective Showing strong feelings; passionate; forceful or intense.

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Questions about vehement in a sentence

How do you use vehement in a sentence?
Vehement is used as an adjective. For example: “The man made a vehement display of contempt.”
What is a short sentence with vehement?
“Amy shook her head, vehement.”
What does vehement mean?
Vehement means showing strong feelings; passionate; forceful or intense.

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