diatribe

Example Sentences

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Then, he satirizes conservatives’ discomfort with his Blackness by sitting silently as Martin Short, playing a nervous young Republican delivering a hackneyed diatribe, shudders in his presence before scampering offstage to fall apart.

From Salon • Feb. 22, 2026

Altman was about to launch into a diatribe about the commercials that Anthropic, the maker of ChatGPT competitor Claude, rolled out for the Super Bowl.

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2026

His first brush with the law dated back to 1974 when he released his famous album "Zombie", generally considered by the military authorities in power as a diatribe levelled at them.

From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026

Mr. Green pins his diatribe on a Dublin City Council proposal to rename Herzog Park.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

And Morrison, if he hears, just thinks it’s another diatribe against smoking, but let’s face it, he doesn’t hear.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides