How to Use screed in a Sentence

screed

noun
  • In her screed against the recording industry, she blamed her producer for ruining her career.
  • One texted me a morning screed.
    — Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • So, back to the most recent screed.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Sanders clearly caught Ryan’s screed.
    — Chris Branch, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • On its face, the dossier is a screed full of blatant nonsense.
    — The Editors, National Review, 6 Nov. 2021
  • Now that our safety screed is complete, the path is your oyster.
    — Max Falkowitz, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Bay Area man, allegedly found with cache of weapons and a racist screed, faces felony charges.
    — Taylor Kate Brown, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 July 2021
  • Infowars’s Jones caters to the alt-right in his politics and screeds.
    — Graham Lanktree, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Larson's score remains a mix of soul-stirring ballads and shrill screeds.
    — Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Meat is murder, but murder is also murder, and maybe a crotchety screed is too.
    — Vulture, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The gunman used racial slurs, left behind a racist screed and drew swastikas on his firearm, authorities said.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Their screeds have been met with anger from many fans, from suggestions the hosts kill themselves to pages of point-by-point retorts.
    — Chris Kornelis, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2018
  • Good luck with those in an age when the screed and the accusation have become our basic prose genres.
    — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 25 May 2022
  • There is nothing in the latest screed that is specific enough to be enforceable.
    — The Economist, 12 June 2018
  • The book is no screed but a celebration in pictures and words of what’s been lost in the course of change and sometimes progress.
    — Harry Siegel, New York Daily News, 6 July 2024
  • Ackman’s screed is far from the first attack on DEI in recent years.
    — Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The nub of his lecture was a screed against the institutions that comprise the British state.
    — The Economist, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Their foolish screed sows doubt and confusion—which only puts our warriors in danger.
    — Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Their foolish screed sows doubt and confusion — which only puts our warriors in danger.
    — Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Their foolish screed sows doubt and confusion — which only puts our warriors in danger.
    — Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The three-minute screed earned him a standing ovation, according to video of the scene and lawmakers who were there.
    — Jenna Portnoy, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2018
  • One of my coworkers was telling me that one of the regional ladies was reading from a script, their first anti-union screed.
    — Errol Schweizer, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
  • But based on a heated screed the Rock Hall of Famer posted on his site this week, the road might have an end.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Many of his screeds have garnered millions of views, more than some of his 10 songs have streamed on Spotify.
    — Blair R. Fischer, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Cut a piece of lumber to fit from one screed to the other, notching it, if necessary, to fit between them [4].
    — Peter Martin, Popular Mechanics, 1 Aug. 2020
  • Putin’s screed came after a sharp increase in violence in eastern Ukraine over the weekend.
    — Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2022
  • The network largely ignored the theory at the heart of the suspect's apparent screed.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN, 15 May 2022
  • For example, go back to the top paragraph of GPT’s poetic screed and read it again.
    — John Werner, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Despite being a repetitive, off-putting screed, Kafka’s text is not a stranger to the stage, and it has even been turned into an opera.
    — New York Times, 28 Feb. 2021
  • Charles Baudelaire, who led the embrace, may still have thundered against the press, but his screeds were now published in the papers themselves.
    — airmail.news, 6 July 2024

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