diatribe

In a sentence

Six example sentences with diatribe, each labelled with its topic.

• The essay begins politely and ends as a diatribe against publishers, four pages of accusation with barely a comma of mercy.

  Literature

• What was billed as a budget speech became a diatribe, twenty minutes of grievance in which no figure was ever mentioned.

  Politics

• The director's commentary turns into a diatribe about the studio, and by minute forty he is still listing what they cut.

  Movies

• The album's closing track is a six-minute diatribe against the record industry, delivered over a single chord.

  Music

• The coach's post-game diatribe against the referees earned him a fine and a week of headlines.

  Basketball

• The forum post became a diatribe against the patch, three thousand words listing every nerf since launch.

  Gaming

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