Example sentences for: ire

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

  • But he ought to have directed his ire not at me but at the leading authorities on the subject: Gellately, who was just appointed to the Holocaust chair at Clark University, and Kershaw, author of the forthcoming two-volume biography of Hitler.

  • Democrats, seeking to direct his ire against the Republican plan, emphasize the difficulty of reining in tax cuts once they've been promised.

  • The source of Anuff's ire was an item I did in one of my "Weekend Cocktail Chats" in the fall of 1998, just after eBay went public.

  • Powers, a journalist who has written about spycraft and the atomic bomb, drew the ire of the scholars, led by Patricia Hilden of the University of California at Berkeley and Arnold Krupat of Sarah Lawrence College, who wrote that he had "little or no detailed knowledge of Native American scholarship" and that he reproduced tired clichés about Native American figures and traditions.

  • Compared to other Western nations, the United States is extremely hard on Iran and Iraq, which draws the ire of terrorists.


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