לדלג לתוכן הראשי

noun

tirade

a long angry speech of criticism or accusation

In a sentence

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

  • The councillor's tirade about the new parking scheme ran for twenty minutes before the chair finally cut the microphone.

    Politics

  • Lear's tirade against his daughters fills most of the third act, and the storm outside answers every line.

    Literature

  • The coach unleashed a tirade at halftime, and the players came out of the tunnel playing like a different team.

    Basketball

  • Cicero's tirade against Catiline ran to four speeches, and schoolchildren were still memorizing the opening two thousand years later.

    History

  • The head chef's tirade about the undercooked risotto lasted the whole service, and nobody sent out a plate without checking twice.

    Cooking

  • The director's tirade on set became legend after a crew member's recording of it leaked online.

    Movies

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