rabble-rouser

Example Sentences

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Teaming up with counterculture rabble-rouser Jerry Rubin, Lennon and Ono speak of peace and love with a naïveté that is both poignant and inspiring.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025

There is some scepticism that the teenage Merz was much of a rabble-rouser.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2025

Ferguson has been a steady conservative, but not a right-wing rabble-rouser.

From Seattle Times • May 10, 2024

He’s since worked to become less of a rabble-rouser, and he left the caucus in 2023.

From Slate • Apr. 11, 2024

He was new, someone they’d picked up in the Paradise Islands, and a bit of a rabble-rouser, but no one contradicted him when he said it again, louder: “It just ain’t right.”

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee