How to Use vehemence in a Sentence

vehemence

noun
  • Or, worse, when that world is breaking down with such vehemence that the air seems to grow more toxic by the minute?
    — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The vehemence with which the question is posed these days seems linked to a turn to pessimism across the West.
    — Matti Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2023
  • The mentions of that word — impeachment — run the gamut from vehemence to caution.
    — Chelsea Bailey and Sam Petulla, NBC News, 19 May 2017
  • Their pro-human vehemence was evident in every quote and frame.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The vehemence and endurance of the protest movement seems to suggest that gaslighting is no longer working.
    — Washington Post, 10 May 2022
  • But in recent days, some men are pushing back, publicly and with increasing vehemence.
    — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Then, in an orchestral transition, comes that second burst of vehemence.
    — New York Times, 11 May 2018
  • Arthur Jussen, handling the piano solo that runs through the piece, played with jaunty flair that darkened to vehemence.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Sep. 2019
  • Dawson seizes the humor, pathos and tragedy of the sorrow songs of the cottonfield with an oracular vehemence.
    — Joseph Horowitz, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2020
  • The difference this time is the vehemence with which young Burmese refuse to revert to the tyranny and poverty their parents knew.
    — The Economist, 13 Mar. 2021
  • Pence talked over the moderator and Harris but without any real vehemence.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2020
  • The sheer vehemence of Winogrand’s career is even more astonishing than the excellence of his work.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2019
  • The hall’s old incarnation tended to muffle some of that vehemence, so the orchestra had to blare louder and bow harder to get its points across.
    — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2022
  • This score’s first two movements are of course full of pianistic acrobatics and orchestral vehemence.
    — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
  • The trio was pilloried with a vehemence that suggested the group had committed multiple acts of treason.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 July 2022
  • That movement has reached unprecedented levels of vehemence in the pandemic’s wake.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2022
  • What comes through now is the vehemence and sulky confusion of a generation’s anti-American snit.
    — Armond White, National Review, 2 June 2021
  • Each competitor in the agon is expected to stake his or her claims on truth; Nietzsche advanced his own opinions with utmost vehemence.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Emboldened by her job title, Mulligan/Twohey roars with self-righteous, foul-mouthed vehemence.
    — Armond White, National Review, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The volume and vehemence of the dissents in the Island Trees decision were perhaps a reflection of the times.
    — Fabio Bertoni, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2023
  • When Moctar played at the Cat 16 months ago, backed by the same three musicians, the vehemence of his performance came as a surprise.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2019
  • Some scholars believe violence and vehemence may share a common Latin origin, a lost participle of the verb vehere, to carry.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2016
  • Throughout her career, the richness of O’Connor’s music was often surpassed by the vehemence and scorch of her politics.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 27 July 2023
  • Yet there’s a particular vehemence to the concern about how long runtimes have gotten that suggests this conversation reflects our fears about all the ways the world is changing.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 17 May 2024
  • The vehemence of the opposition to the clinic has come as a shock to Chris Viens, 49, one of three board members who has supported the idea.
    — New York Times, 5 June 2022
  • The exchange encapsulated the vehemence of a dispute that has worried Western countries allied with both sides.
    — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2017
  • The vehemence of those denials raises questions about how China could be expected to honor commitments to protect workers’ rights.
    — New York Times, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Despite Pompeo’s vehemence, there was a conspicuous lack of media interest in his next moves against Assange.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Feb. 2023
  • But is he covered with more disdain and vehemence than someone like Brett Favre, who is accused of committing crimes against vulnerable people?
    — Damon Young, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2022
  • During the past week, I’ve been fascinated by the response — and the vehemence of that response — from various quarters of the Mormon world.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 July 2022

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