Example sentences for: railing

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

  • Language is a living, changing phenomenon, and it is no use railing against shifts in meaning, which are bound to occur.

  • Two of the blurb writers have quite understandable grudges: Goldhagen has, for years, been railing against Browning's emphasis on peer pressure in explaining why German soldiers participated in genocide; in a New Republic review, he accused another endorser, Arno Mayer, of being a Holocaust revisionist.

  • The Middle East Times of Egypt has a lead editorial railing against the portrayal of Arab-Americans in the American movie The Siege . "With the exception of Haddad and a miserable-looking courier who gets caught as he tries to bring in cash for the terrorists, the Arabs here are either terrorists or non-persons who provide a poor-looking backdrop," it said.

  • He arranged bowls, jugs, and fruit in sunlight or whipped them with the shadows of the porch railing, then left the objects alone and began rearranging the position of his camera instead.

  • But with regard to the vast majority of psychiatric encounters, which involve adults showing up in offices and asking for help, railing against the men in white coats is mostly beside the point.


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