Example sentences for: diatribe

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

  • The diatribe goes on and on and on, and it's funny precisely because it won't let up.

  • But he seldom concludes a diatribe with a condemnation.

  • From her diatribe in Harper's , you'd think Smiley was out to revive Stowian melodrama, with its coincidences, angelic children, and neat distinctions between good and evil.

  • It is as if you looked up, say, infer/imply in a usage manual and the author's treatment, in place of an explanation and sound advice, were an unpleasant diatribe against anyone so dense and rude as to have had to look up the entry to begin with.

  • (A recent example of how this stereotype gets perpetuated is the article by garden-shop entrepreneur Paul Hawken in the current Mother Jones . I'm sorry to say that some of the people at Redefining Progress published an impressively ill-informed diatribe along the same lines in the Atlantic back in 1995.)


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