Example sentences for: apoplexy

How can you use “apoplexy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Dario Fo's play Accidental Death of an Anarchist proved that the Grouchoesque clown could be an anarchic avenger, driving fascists to apoplexy; and Lina Wertmuller's Seven Beauties (1976), however gross and ham-handed, at least suggested that a concentration camp could function as a legitimate setting for a black-comic parable about a parasite's struggle to survive at all costs.

  • Many business people from Toronto have been driven close to apoplexy by the relaxed style of their Vancouver colleagues.

  • The much newer (1962) transitive verb access , as of a data base, bears no such oblique opprobrium in Oxford , even though it induces epidemic apoplexy among the self-appointed sentinels of linguistic correctness.

  • He presses down hard on the word "love," too hard, and it comes out in an apoplexy of twang.

  • This is, conversely, among the many reasons I could never be a good Republican--I just don't get the anti-Clinton apoplexy.


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