jeremiad

Example Sentences

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“People think she came out of nowhere to deliver this Jeremiad of ‘Silent Spring,’ but she had three massive best sellers about the sea before that,” McKibben says.

From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2012

Happily, my lines fell in these pleasanter places; and, whatever the unavoidable trials, it were base ingratitude in an experimental pilgrim among the mail-bags to indite a new Jeremiad thereon.

From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by DeLeon, T. C.

When she and her mother and Dulac were seated at the table her mother began a characteristic Jeremiad.

From Youth Challenges by Kelland, Clarence Budington

Don't look at me with those Jeremiad eyes.

From Tell England A Study in a Generation by Raymond, Ernest

Indeed you might; he relieved the time we were rousing at the chains with a beautiful Jeremiad on the calamities of the lockers.

From Homeward Bound or, the Chase by Cooper, James Fenimore