Example sentences for: vitriolic

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

  • Spencer's vitriolic, anti-press, anti-monarchy eulogy was wildly popular in the United Kingdom--it's been called "one of the most important speeches in recent British history" and reprinted by all the vile tabloids it denounces.

  • He transforms himself from a vitriolic TV gas bag into a candidate for the presidency.

  • Some Israelis blame Jordan's King Hussein for inciting the attack by releasing a vitriolic letter that accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of provoking Palestinian violence.

  • In Russia, the Moscow Times said it would be "hard to imagine a more humbling scene for Alexander Solzhenitsyn" than the print run of 5,000 copies given to his latest "vitriolic indictment of post-Soviet society"--his book Russia in the Abyss . "Former presidential bodyguard Alexander Korzhakov's memoirs of his time as a member of Yeltsin's coterie came out in 50,000 copies," the paper said.

  • The building of the Muziek Theater in the 1980s, which resulted in the demolition of several old houses, was a case in point — with vitriolic demonstrations by local pressure groups.


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