How to Use inveigh in a Sentence

inveigh

verb
  • Democrats and the media will inveigh that if a vote has shown up, it should be counted.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Clerics have inveighed against the idea for years, often in ludicrous terms.
    — The Economist, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Yet the chamber gave him a bully pulpit from which to inveigh against the ills plaguing the nation.
    — Time, 5 June 2018
  • There was this Sunday school instructor who once used his time before the class to inveigh against adultery.
    — Jarvis Deberry, NOLA.com, 10 May 2017
  • Tens of thousands of women also marched through Paris, inveighing against the patriarchy.
    — CBS News, 8 Mar. 2020
  • Tens of thousands of women also marched through Paris, inveighing against the patriarchy.
    — NBC News, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Few French politicians can inveigh against injustice with the pleasing turns of the tongue that seem to come so naturally to him.
    — Yascha Mounk, Slate Magazine, 18 Apr. 2017
  • Prabowo has also inveighed more openly than Jokowi ever did against the West’s hypocrisy on democracy and human rights.
    — Ben Bland, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Conservatives have long inveighed against class-action lawsuits and the plaintiffs’ lawyers who champion them.
    — Kenneth K. Lee, National Review, 2 Dec. 2019
  • These days, Ellis, 41, is more than just another clergyman inveighing against the dangers of drinking.
    — Bill Turque, kansascity, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The Marxists who are so skillful in the detection and the isolation of heresies used to inveigh against one particular heresy that pleased me particularly.
    — John Dos Passos, National Review, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Even so, Parscale would’ve found a sympathetic ear in the president, who has inveighed against Amazon and its deal with the Postal Service in recent weeks.
    — Fortune, 14 Apr. 2018
  • Steyer inveighed against the president before a crowd of about 100 people in a small room of the Clifton Cultural Arts Center.
    — Scott Wartman, Cincinnati.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Lee and Paul, for instance, had inveighed against intervention in Syria and Libya during the Obama administration.
    — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Only after the state’s Congressional delegation unanimously inveighed against that stance did Brown commit to reversing it.
    — oregonlive, 25 Apr. 2020
  • Several prominent local leaders said that condemning child separation or inveighing against AR-15s was an abuse of rabbinical power.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2019
  • The remainder of the speech then inveighed against terrorists, called for action from Muslim leaders, and articulated some principles around which the United States intends to engage leaders in this effort.
    — Quinn Mecham, Washington Post, 24 May 2017
  • The attorney general went on, in his characteristically dry tone, to inveigh against attempts by American progressives to use the law to punish religious people for holding views that offend the latest liberal consensus.
    — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2020
  • After a career spent inveighing against government interference in his industry, and testing, protesting, and violating the laws and regulations the Labor Department helps to enforce, Puzder would have made an unlikely watchdog.
    — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2017

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