How to Use vitriol in a Sentence

vitriol

noun
  • His speech was full of political vitriol.
  • The vitriol with which it was done shocked many chip experts.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2025
  • But that can’t explain all of the vitriol.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2026
  • So with all this social media vitriol, why go on the show at all?
    — De Elizabeth, Glamour, 9 May 2019
  • Even as fans spew hate and vitriol at him through social media.
    — Kendall Capps, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
  • The sheer volume of vitriol and crap kept beating mods down too.
    — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2024
  • There will, of course, be vitriol from Boston fans.
    — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 22 Mar. 2026
  • And like most conflicts, the vitriol doesn’t stay contained in one place.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The response was full of vitriol.
    — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Chiles also tried to protect her friend from the vitriol of the outside world.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The vitriol between the two men is never far from the surface.
    — New York Times, 6 Aug. 2022
  • Some were courageous saints who tried to take on the ignorance and vitriol.
    — Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press, 12 May 2018
  • That shouldn't create an instant wave of fan vitriol and demands for the next guy to come in the game.
    — Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 2 May 2018
  • His tone is matter-of-fact, but the vitriol has heightened lately.
    — Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2026
  • It was filled with snark, disgust, vitriol and probably some truth.
    — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 11 May 2026
  • Violence and vitriol must be purged from the public square.
    — Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Violence and vitriol must be purged from the public square.
    — Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The other surprising thing is just the vitriol and the hate that gets thrown at these women.
    — Neha Prakash, Marie Claire, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Much of the vitriol centers on the fact that Sandu is a woman.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
  • She’s filled with vitriol and hate toward the man who the nation chose as its president.
    — Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The struggles led to an endless stream of vitriol from a frustrated fan base.
    — Edgar Thompson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 15 Apr. 2018
  • But the fact my kids saw a lot of the vitriol and hatred towards me, that in itself was taxing and hard.
    — Ed O’Bannon, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2021
  • The vitriol has led to an increase in hate crimes in Maryland and across the country.
    — Ovetta Wiggins, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2022
  • But many of us didn’t expect the anti-woman vitriol to be this blatant.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Koffi flinched away from the accusation in her head, from the vitriol in it.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Nor is the judge bothered by the more routine vitriol directed her way.
    — Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Internet chat rooms and sports talk radio shows across the state crackled with vitriol for much of the past week.
    — Jeff Duncan, NOLA.com, 22 Sep. 2017
  • The debates, and the vitriol, were endless.
    — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Right now, there's a lot of vitriol in Washington there's a lot of reasons for it.
    — CBS News, 1 Dec. 2019
  • Season 4 will kick off with vitriol, bad feeling and blackmail — and that’s just for starters.
    — Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 3 Apr. 2025

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'vitriol.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: