How to Use hate mail in a Sentence

hate mail

noun
  • What do people send you hate mail about?
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Love letters, hate mail, pet pics?
    — Ella Lee, The Hill, 30 Apr. 2025
  • But the band’s members were shocked at the hate mail that poured in.
    — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Zhu received handwritten hate mail tied to the post sent to her office.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 21 Dec. 2025
  • The couple had also received hate mail for their romance.
    — Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026
  • But there’s also the chance that the person who receives it will reject you and send you hate mail.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Goetz’s victims were, in turn, villainized and bombarded with hate mail.
    — Heather Ann Thompson, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Armed guards were posted in the hospital, and her parents received hate mail.
    — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Both actors received hate mail and death threats for the 1957 drama.
    — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The hate mail started to trickle in, mostly addressed to Cabey’s mother.
    — Kevin Lozano, Harpers Magazine, 2 June 2026
  • Some of the businesses that allowed the group to collect signatures in front of their store received hate mail.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2024
  • But there's no way around it, the Rabbit convertible will once again bring the postlady to her knees with hate mail.
    — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 3 Mar. 2023
  • One of the most brutal aspects of this book is reading quotations of the hate mail that families of the teens received.
    — Dan Sheehan, Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Joe Simon tells a story about how their offices started to get phone calls and hate mail from Nazis after this came out.
    — Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 10 May 2025
  • Among those present was a spokesman for the activist group Palestine Speaks, who asked not to be identified over concerns about hate mail.
    — Erika Solomon, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Throughout, hate mail poured into inboxes at mosques and advocacy groups.
    — Rob Kuznia, CNN Money, 7 Dec. 2025
  • In season 12, someone trespasses onto her property, throws eggs at her house and leaves hate mail on her doorstep in the middle of the night.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 2 July 2024
  • One of the women’s friends on campus had been bombarded with hate mail and was too scared to leave her house; a rotating group of students had been escorting her to class.
    — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Meanwhile, the relationship generated a great deal of hate mail and angry calls from viewers, and a station in Texas dropped the show.
    — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Residents didn’t see it that way, protesting against the project, racially harassing her, sending hate mail and death threats, and prompting her to hire a security team.
    — Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Her employer, Inside Edition, was inundated with anti-trans hate mail, which Tur says led them to fire her.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Jan. 2025
  • The online database generated harassment campaigns against professors, leading to calls for firings, hate mail and death threats.
    — Lee Bebout, The Conversation, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Meanwhile, the prosecutor has faced a deluge of death threats and hate mail, The News previously reported.
    — Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 11 July 2024
  • Blume’s outspokenness against book censorship and her long-time support for Planned Parenthood has resulted in hate mail.
    — Shannon Carlin, Time, 8 May 2025
  • Chen’s lawsuit says both her personal and professional life were upended amid a wave of negative media attention after the leak, leading to hate mail and death threats.
    — Alanna Durkin Richer, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2024
  • That would be a particularly disturbing piece of real hate mail Kubrin received late last year after she was quoted in a news story about immigration and crime.
    — Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Hester is a caustic yet irresistible narrator, and this evocation of her journey across America reads as both hate mail and love letter to a complex country.
    — Gabrielle Bellot, Literary Hub, 30 Mar. 2026
  • And then there was the hate mail that flooded the mailboxes of the boys’ families, after both the Daily News and the Post had published their addresses.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Pyles said Weihe's letter and their new friendship has completely canceled out all the hate mail, inspiring him to not only keep his Halloween display, but to expand it.
    — Steve Hartman, CBS News, 27 Sep. 2024
  • People are still sending hate mail to astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson for his role in determining what constitutes a planet.
    — Brian Anthony Hernandez, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2024

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