How to Use diatribe in a Sentence

diatribe

noun
  • The article is a diatribe against mainstream media.
  • Four years on, the diatribe remains the same.
    — Megan Feringa, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
  • This will be no diatribe on how Curry gets no love from the refs.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Nov. 2021
  • The whole diatribe is gross, and not in a fun, this-will-become-a-meme sort of way.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 12 June 2023
  • And the show felt more like a dialogue than a diatribe.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Trump said at the start of a roughly five-minute, on-and-off diatribe on the Sharpie.
    — ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • One fan with a bullhorn led a long and expletive-laced diatribe.
    — USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2017
  • For most towns, the bitter diatribe of a man several thousands of miles away would have made no dent at all.
    — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Trump’s social media feed and rhetoric overflow with racist diatribes.
    — Laura Washington, Mercury News, 9 June 2026
  • The third book inside the same two covers is a feminist diatribe.
    — Tamar Adler, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
  • At least we are left with a series of comic diatribes, each of which could stand on its own as a stinging monologue.
    — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2020
  • The rest of his diatribe is not fit to print on the website of a family newspaper.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 26 May 2017
  • Katie doesn’t wait for an answer, launching into a page-and-a-half diatribe against her sibling.
    — Azazel Jacobs, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
  • As a toddler, the mere sound of his bellowing diatribes were enough to send me into a fit of sobbing.
    — Kristen Falso-Capaldi, Good Housekeeping, 7 June 2017
  • The ticket at first drew support from young men who liked his diatribes and social media persona.
    — Vera Bergengruen/buenos Aires, TIME, 23 May 2024
  • Pearl Harbor’’ diatribe, Belushi didn’t say 10 words the whole movie.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Lester’s book is nowhere close to being a diatribe of the racing system against the Black driver.
    — Ray Glier, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Moscow’s anti-woke diatribes have, of course, come to feature Ukraine.
    — Mikhail Zygar, Foreign Affairs, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The man launched into a long diatribe about the shadow government, then mass shootings.
    — Amanda J. Crawford, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2022
  • His opponents gathered in the streets to denounce him and wrote withering diatribes against him in the press.
    — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2018
  • In more recent years the Sheik’s diatribes appeared on social media.
    — Daniel E. Slotnik, New York Times, 7 June 2023
  • Stewart’s diatribe—the comedic edge of which could not mask its furious sincerity—hit a nerve.
    — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2025
  • When the host tried to get Scott to walk back some of his comments, Scott paid no attention and kept on with his diatribe.
    — Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Corrie mostly reports on daily events, but the play allows her one diatribe, in the form of a message to her mother.
    — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2024
  • But the diatribes have generally been assumed to be her own, not sponsored content.
    — Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The manuscript is a diatribe against rebels, arguing that all rebellions against a monarch are unjust and doomed to fail.
    — Michael Blanding, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
  • On Thursday, Schulte didn’t back away from Wednesday’s diatribe.
    — Bill Turque, kansascity, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The caller threatened to kill Berkowitz, who is Jewish, and his wife, in a diatribe laced with racist insults.
    — CBS News, 15 Oct. 2020
  • The diatribe appears to have been in reaction to a student wearing a Marines shirt or sweatshirt.
    — Brittny Mejia, latimes.com, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Publishing the comments would give a reader perspective on the attack, but the diatribe was also hate speech and racist.
    — Adrian Vore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2021

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