How to Use fulminate in a Sentence

fulminate

verb
  • She was fulminating about the dangers of smoking.
  • The editorial fulminated against the proposed tax increase.
  • But instead of cheering in paradise, there would be fulminating in Fairfax, Va.
    — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • In answer, a furious Trump weaved and bobbed, fulminating about walls, fake news, and hoaxes, but of course, never going near the question.
    — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2019
  • New and radical groups like Black First Land First sprang up, holding public rallies to fulminate against whites.
    — David Segal, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2018
  • There are football fans and observers fulminating against the idea of additional playoff participants.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2019
  • In a statement released shortly after news of his indictment broke, the former president raged and fulminated at his persecutors.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
  • At that moment of high drama, one environmental protester in the audience after another got to their feet and began to fulminate about the climate.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Netanyahu spent the week before the hearing fulminating against leaks from the investigations into his conduct and demanding that the pre-trial hearing be made public and aired live.
    — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2019
  • All this has reduced the DeSantis camp to fulminating powerlessly.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
  • When Reagan fulminated against the Soviet Union, his aides, fearing nuclear war, challenged him.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Some neighbors fulminated against the university, arguing that the extra events would bring more noise and traffic, and that the property tax-exempt institution would not pay its fair share.
    — Shun Graves, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Having fulminated against Obamacare for so long, Republicans in Congress should not have needed the president to tell them what to replace it with.
    — The Economist, 20 July 2017
  • Elon Musk famously fulminated about the horrific violent crime in San Francisco and the attackers who get set free.
    — Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Despite the fulminating royal statement, every Thai knows that no one can beat the king himself for ingratitude, misbehaviour and disloyalty.
    — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Coaches such as Leach and Clemson’s Dabo Swinney, who also fulminated against the bill, don’t want players to be able to get out from under their paternal thumb.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2019
  • Democrats were still fulminating (legitimately) about that when Biden signed the IRA into law, so the press mostly ignored the buyback tax’s creation.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 7 Mar. 2023
  • In a year in which politicians have fulminated about global cybertampering with elections, this recount was decidedly low-tech, with election workers tallying votes with handwritten red hash marks.
    — John Leland, New York Times, 15 July 2019
  • There are other publications that may have pounded the table harder or fulminated more, but none that have been as credible, informative, and incisive as NR.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 4 June 2024
  • Predictably, Khomeini fulminated about Carter’s visit.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
  • In countries like Hungary, nationalists, warning that their own people risk fading away and being replaced by outsiders, have fulminated against immigrants, despite severe labor shortages.
    — Andrew Higgins Vladimir Zivojinovic, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
  • For two years, the state quietly investigated the matter while Villanueva fulminated about it at seemingly every opportunity.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024
  • As for women, Moore was the Democrats’ jackpot — a supposedly religious conservative flamboyantly fulminating against immorality who was himself a child molester.
    — Mona Charen, National Review, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Like the town of Simons, Dolgeville also fielded an amateur baseball team, and had an official post office, a bank, and a firehouse, where locals met in 1906 to fulminate about the brothels and saloons thriving outside of the town limits.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2021
  • His chief adviser, Seumas Milne, devoted much of his journalistic career at the Guardian to fulminating against American imperialism.
    — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Asked to explain an apparent (but not real) discrepancy in a progress report EcoHealth submitted to the government, Daszak started to answer, but a theatrically fulminating Griffith cut him off.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
  • Where Republicans could fulminate freely, Democrats had to go somewhat gingerly, trying to thread the needle, to hold a lawless president responsible for violating the Constitution without setting off a backlash that would hand him a second term.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Dec. 2019
  • In it, the president ranged broadly, zipping back and forth between telling stories, spouting political diatribes, singing songs from his childhood, phoning Fidel Castro, broadcasting from Moscow, and fulminating against enemies real and imagined.
    — Moisés Naím, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2022

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