railing

Example Sentences

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Railing about powerlessness is a luxury we might want to save for the moment—should it ever fearfully arrive—in which we have truly got no power left to assert.

From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025

Railing against August weather expends energy and ends in frustration.

From Salon • Aug. 21, 2021

Railing about the influence of the police union in Suffolk County is like railing against the moon in the sky.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2021

Railing against something or someone consumes much of the community’s energy.

From Washington Times • Jan. 28, 2020

Railing, and praising were his usual themes, And both, to shew his judgment, in extremes; So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him was God, or devil.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II by Cibber, Theophilus