Example sentences for: railed

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

  • A glaring recent exception was a misguided missive that railed against the perceived (by the author) rising popularity of empathy at the expense of good old fashioned sympathy .

  • Starting around 1910, Arab newspapers railed against Jewish land acquisition.

  • The Clintonites will have to improve on their vague snipes of the last three days; Saturday Clinton lawyers railed against the House and invoked the the "interests of the American people" refrain.

  • The way we talk about the character of leaders has come a long way since Leo Tolstoy railed against Carlyle's great-man theory of history 130 years ago in War and Peace : "To study the laws of history, we must entirely change the subject of our observation, must leave aside kings, ministers, and generals, and study the common, infinitesimally small elements that influence the masses."

  • (1995), an attack on newfangled newspapering by ousted Chicago Tribune editor James Squires, the poppin' mad former honcho railed that USA Today "adopted an editorial philosophy designed to avoid all controversy."


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