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Six example sentences with excoriate, each labelled with its topic.
Editorial pages excoriated the mayor for approving a stadium while three libraries in the same district closed.
Politics
Few reviews were kinder: one critic excoriated the sequel in a single sentence and moved on to the next film.
Movies
Being excoriated at halftime for jogging back on defense did not stop the starters from doing it again.
Basketball
The reviewer excoriated the novel over two full pages, then admitted in the last line that he had finished it in one sitting.
Literature
Analysts excoriated the bank for hiding the losses in a footnote, and the shares fell by a fifth.
Finance
The judge excoriated both lawyers for wasting the court's time with motions that repeated each other word for word.
Law
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