Example sentences for: firebrand

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

  • (Lexington also praises House Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Christopher Cox "for his cheerful refusal to be a hack or a firebrand."

  • Former Reagan official and intellectual firebrand William Bennett agrees with everything that troubled liberals say is wrong with modern society.

  • On 13 July 1789 a young firebrand orator, Camille Desmoulins, stood on a table at the Palais-Royal’s Café de Foy to sound a call to arms.

  • In London's Evening Standard last Friday, firebrand columnist Julie Burchill called Lewinsky a saint and a sister.

  • David Horowitz, right-wing firebrand and head of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, has taken out an ad in six college newspapers excoriating "tenured radicals" for defending the distorted autobiographical writings of Guatemalan Nobel laureate and activist Rigoberta Menchú.


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