How to Use firebrand in a Sentence

firebrand

noun
  • This messy firebrand was now out there sounding like a damn goober.
    — Allison P. Davis, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Not everyone has to be such a firebrand.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 19 June 2026
  • González Nieves knows a thing or two about being a firebrand herself.
    — Laura Neilson, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2017
  • The biotech firebrand's latest idea seems even more fantastic.
    — Douglas McGray, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2002
  • It was designed, consciously or not, to enhance her brand—or firebrand, in this case.
    — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2021
  • These firebrands landed throughout the city and set homes ablaze, which then spread to neighboring homes.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 14 June 2019
  • Far-left firebrand mocked for Senate campaign launch 3.
    — FOXNews.com, 9 Dec. 2025
  • That could also work with moderates who see him as more of a manager than a firebrand.
    — New York Times, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Hard not to believe in him now, still at just 37, a wunderkind turned firebrand of fashion.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 5 May 2022
  • But charges of politicization – and a firebrand senator – doomed the project.
    — Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2024
  • So is the Vice President giving up her far left firebrand views?
    — Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
  • For the 21-year-old firebrand of a forward, the start of a new season has always called for a fresh ‘do.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Oct. 2024
  • There have been firebrands since the '20s and '30s and in the suffragette movement.
    — Thom Duffy, Billboard, 23 Sep. 2019
  • AfD firebrand Björn Höcke was last year adjudged to have overstepped that line.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 21 Feb. 2025
  • But over the last five-plus years, Mace has evolved into a conservative firebrand.
    — Max Rego, The Hill, 11 June 2026
  • Friends and colleagues from his younger days wouldn’t easily peg Ruddy as a right-wing firebrand.
    — Washington Post, 6 May 2021
  • The militant Islam and its firebrands are tearing the place apart.
    — Brian Bennett, Time, 13 July 2019
  • The far-right firebrand Eric Zemmour did clear that bar with a 7 percent share.
    — Arthur Goldhammer, The New Republic, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Some patients, like the young firebrand who furiously demands more chemo, rage against the dying of the light.
    — Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Here’s the liberal firebrand who wants to shake up Sacramento.
    — George Skelton, Mercury News, 1 June 2026
  • Here’s the liberal firebrand who wants to shake up Sacramento.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2026
  • An angry deity hurled a firebrand at the swallow, singeing away its middle tail feathers.
    — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Pro-Brexit firebrand Boris Johnson is the favorite to win the job.
    — Doug Criss, CNN, 23 July 2019
  • That has left an opening for Nigel Farage, the populist firebrand who leads Reform.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 12 June 2024
  • Jonathan had cast a vote for Vivek Ramaswamy, the 38-year-old firebrand businessman.
    — Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Crockett, a civil rights lawyer, is known as a firebrand, with combative comebacks and fierce messaging.
    — Emily Wilkins, CNBC, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The Florida congressman, known as a firebrand in the House, then resigned his seat.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The United Kingdom sanctioned the two firebrands and imposed travel bans on them.
    — Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 10 June 2025
  • There have been whispers that Kohli, unfathomably, should be dropped although no one close to the scene is brave enough to suggest that to the firebrand.
    — Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Fiona O’Leary is a fearless firebrand, who is a mother of five children, four of whom were diagnosed with autism.
    — Kristen V Brown, Bloomberg.com, 1 Feb. 2023

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