How to Use invective in a Sentence

invective

1 of 2 noun
  • And there is no doubt that the level of invective on the left runs pretty hot.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The threats are like a bad faucet, a ceaseless stream of invective and hatred.
    — Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 7 Oct. 2019
  • After two months, her streams of heart and kiss emojis gave way to rivers of invective.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • If that's you, head to the comments now and unleash that invective!
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Will some of those emails be filled with hateful invective, like several were last fall?
    — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Mar. 2021
  • The invective may tell us something about the origins of Covid.
    — Perry Link, WSJ, 13 June 2021
  • But acting white didn’t stop people from hurling racist invective at her.
    — Esmeralda Bermudez, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Each side ended up hurling bitter invective against each other, much of which was true.
    — David Graeber, The New York Review of Books, 13 Jan. 2020
  • For a third straight day, profane invective rained from the crowd onto the Astros.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2021
  • Not exactly the kind of invective that would bring Newt Gingrich to his knees.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Rory McIlroy was the lightning rod for the invective, and so was his wife.
    — Don Riddell, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Others face streams of invective in their inboxes and on their Twitter feeds.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 7 July 2020
  • Brown usually breaks the huddle before the first snap with a deluge of invective aimed at the other side of the ball.
    — Brian Hamilton, SI.com, 13 Sep. 2016
  • The final days of the race have especially inflamed the invective.
    — New York Times, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Opponents of the renaming say they, too, have been wounded by invective from their neighbors.
    — Debbie Truong, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2017
  • That quickly spread to invective for Taylor, followed by woe-is-us and general malaise.
    — Paul Daugherty, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2020
  • In the videos, the women, with three children in tow, can be heard unleashing a steady stream of invective against Muslims.
    — Mallory Simon, CNN, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Infuriated, Herbert launched a stream of invective at the lad who served him.
    — Robert Mitchell, Washington Post, 23 June 2018
  • Some of those pushing anti-Jewish invective on the right are opportunists.
    — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2026
  • One aristocrat wrote a scathing invective about the impropriety of Wroth’s work.
    — V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Aug. 2021
  • That means Paulson gets much of the choicest dialogue and the most colorful invective.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 10 Nov. 2025
  • As Ackman widened the scope of his invective from academia to the media in the past week, lampooning and more criticism followed.
    — Annie Massa, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2024
  • This is 2019, and one of the villains is a pale teen boy who posts offensive invective on Twitter.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2019
  • What stuck with me most, however, were the scenes where Brown looks in the mirror and delivers a bitter stream of brutal invective.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Nov. 2022
  • For Caldwell, who is 62, this sort of invective is simply part of American life.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 14 Sep. 2017
  • The online pile-on, often expressed through personal invective.
    — Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2026
  • Firing a water bottle to the back wall of a suite, a la Cam Neely, may be good drama, but not so firing invectives back at the fans.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2023
  • Someone who was proud of his heritage but smart enough and self-disciplined enough not to fight back when the racists, in the stands and on the field, started hurling invectives his way.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Phillips came back to the podium again later with more invectives and had to be admonished by members of council to use his speaking time in a civil manner.
    — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • At one point, the crew shot a scene in which Whalen’s character joins a bar fight, shouting invectives at a hapless extra before pummelling him to the ground.
    — Chang Che, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026

invective

2 of 2 adjective
  • Her invective perks us right up.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Please come to the plate with facts and reason, not invective.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 3 June 2020
  • It’s all designed to keep us all pointing and shouting invective at each other.
    — cleveland, 14 Sep. 2023
  • This is not a time for cynicism or invective or second-guessing.
    — Andrew Taylor, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2020
  • My inbox has been flooded with invective, including death threats.
    — Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Another cupped his hands and shouted invective.
    — Seth Emerson, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Congolese leaders have a tendency for invective and to blame all their ills on Rwanda.
    — Jason K. Stearns, TIME, 19 Mar. 2025
  • When the quit this year, , a tsunami of invective washed over social media, calling him a communist, a traitor, a crook.
    — Washington Post, 3 June 2020
  • Now, Carroll is seeking millions of dollars more to stop the river of invective.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
  • His succinct speech patterns were devoid of the usual Biden slurring and invective yelling.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Still, both would agree that the rise in hostility gave way to a similar rise in invective, leading to barbs with a hateful bite.
    — Ben Croll, Variety, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Vanya absconds from the house, leaving Ani, who surprises Toros with her strength and invective.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The explosion of sports betting might not be the reason for the increase in personal invective being spewed at games.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2025
  • The report also said board members received threatening and invective-laden emails.
    — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Spend your fight on nasty jabs at the opposition, invective at party rivals, cable-show drama, and personal crusades?
    — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Trump threw invective at mainstream media outlets, but readers, subscribers, viewers and advertisers all threw dollars at them.
    — Jacob S. Hacker, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2022
  • These sessions, as many Democrats pointed out, were combative, full of invective, and almost entirely devoid of substance.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
  • His hours-long speeches, stuffed with classical allusions and thundering with invective, were distributed as pamphlets by the millions.
    — Rob Wolfe, The Atlantic, 5 June 2026
  • The researchers forced Gemini to delete messages, spew invective at the user, steal email messages, and even use Google Home to open windows.
    — PC Magazine, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Daldry achieves latitude by balancing invective with humor in confrontations that are always honest and leveling.
    — Armond White, National Review, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Unlike him, Laura knows how to fight, to unleash torrents of invective with the unhinged sincerity of authentic passion.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Viewers will expect the candidates to hurl invective at each other; make outlandish claims; and perhaps even spar with CNN’s moderators.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 21 June 2024
  • Kirk knew this and was quite successful at playing this game, using social media to spread invective, troll his political opponents, polarize his audience, and grow his movement.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Newsletter On Politics In an era of invective and distrust, two California candidates turned a tie over to chance.
    — Jess Bidgood, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The girls scratch her name into the walls with their bloodied fingernails and hurl invective at her mother, Chris (Ellen Burstyn), whom Victor has sought out for her counsel on this matter.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Decades later, almost identical invective pours from the mouth of Scott Rudin, infuriated after a manuscript goes to a competitor.
    — Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Hytner tends to stay away from the self-revealing (except for his run-in with Harold Pinter, which is so invective-strewn it can’t be reproduced here without making the paragraph look like a night sky of asterisks).
    — Peter Lewis, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2017
  • After pounding on the dashboard, raising the hood, and hurling invective at the hapless Jeep, Arutunoff headed for a telephone to call Aberlich and threaten to set his Jeep on fire.
    — William Jeanes, Car and Driver, 9 Apr. 2023
  • The other sticky reality is that the vast majority of prospective CT buyers don’t pay attention to fringe media invective but make very practical buying decisions rooted in dollars and cents.
    — Brooke Crothers, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
  • The column is a strange mélange of quotes from celebrities, conservative political analysis, invective against foes real and perceived, anecdotes about the peculiarity of life in Manhattan, and aphorisms and puns.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 20 Aug. 2021

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