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Example sentences for "tirade"

Lexicographically close words:
tiptop; tique; tiques; tir; tira; tirades; tirailleurs; tirano; tirant; tire
  1. But he didn't get very far with his tirade before Newman had him shouldered against the wall of the deck-house.

  2. To all this tirade Newman returned no answer.

  3. The hunters piled pell-mell out of the steerage, but as Leach's tirade continued I saw that there was no levity in their faces.

  4. This tirade against destiny went on for an hour or more, and then he buckled to his work, limping and groaning, and in his eyes a great hatred for all created things.

  5. Though this tirade was in an alien tongue, Rad el Moussa caught the drift from Captain Kettle's accompanying gesticulations, which supplied a running translation as he went on.

  6. The hot-tempered Portuguese was not a man to stand this tirade (as Kettle anticipated) unmoved.

  7. A good woman, over-persuaded by her husband, may go once to hear such a tirade against the Christian religion, not fully knowing what she is going to hear; but she will not go twice.

  8. Indeed, an impudent little negro, who threw open the gate for us, interrupted Ginnie in the midst of a tirade with a sly "Here's the beginning of a little fuss!

  9. Thus, for instance, the final words of a tirade of Amis et Amiles (Il.

  10. Sometimes the tirade is completed by a shorter line, and the later chansons are regularly rhymed.

  11. Then follows a tirade on the variety of his subjects; their depth, their significance, and the mawkishness and pedantry which they are intended to confute.

  12. To this absurd tirade I replied not a word, but stood silently regarding him.

  13. Curiously enough, as I went over the Mixer's tirade point by point, I found in myself an inexplicable loss of animus toward the Klondike woman.

  14. The abbe listened to Celestin's tirade with a half smile, thinking the while of the pleasant surprise he had in store for his visitor.

  15. Commander Bernard replied to this tirade by another loud burst of laughter.

  16. In 1602 appeared a sweeping tirade entitled, "Work for Chimney Sweepers, or a Warning against Tobacconists.

  17. She finished her tirade by thrusting some money into Kedzie's hand and clamoring: "Get into your clothes and get out of my sight.

  18. Zada's cries turned to sobs, and her tirade to sobs.

  19. Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads.

  20. Accustomed to intimidating women with a curse and an oath, he had found himself unexpectedly dealing with two who could scorch him with a scorn and contempt far more withering than a vulgar tirade of blasphemous language.

  21. And still Lorraine only smiled the tired smile, and glanced carelessly aside with the inscrutable eyes until the tirade was over, the coveted cheque made out, and her own little sanctum once again in peaceful possession.

  22. The tables were turned upon him, although portions of Donnelly's tirade were unparliamentary, and indefensible on the score of coarseness and bad taste.

  23. The tone of her Aunt's voice had been angry and Phyllis was afraid there was another tirade against herself in the offing.

  24. He poured a tirade out on the head of the driver.

  25. Mr. Sumner’s speech was the most vulgar tirade of abuse ever delivered in a deliberative body.

  26. It is manifestly an imitation of the tirade of Semonides.

  27. Thus Hippolytus engages in a lengthy tirade beginning: "Why hast thou given a home beneath the sun, Zeus, unto woman, specious curse to man?

  28. The comic poets, as the chief organs of the opposition, engaged in this most merciless and unjust tirade against the party of the philosophers.

  29. The verses printed in November, 1883, are a bitter and violent tirade against the movement in general and the Booth family in particular, with offensive references to "dear Catherine .

  30. A fresh tirade follows, accusing Frederick of every defect of character and principle known to ethics, and concluding, "and showing such a temper too"!

  31. Once or twice during this acrid tirade she had waved one hand in front of her, and made its finger and thumb give a contemptuous audible click.

  32. Claire had succumbed several minutes before this eager tirade was ended.

  33. He stopped his tirade long enough to pick up a sandwich from the table and begin eating it.

  34. Muggs was not listening to this tirade of the lieutenant's.

  35. Certainly no tirade of accusing scorn could have so wounded the self-love of the selfish, conscienceless man as did her cool farewell missive.

  36. His tirade was wholly lost upon his sister, however, for that lady was whimpering comfortably and putting all her feeble energy into the effort.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tirade" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abundance; abuse; address; allocution; amplitude; assault; attack; bawl; berating; contumely; cry; debate; diatribe; eulogy; execration; exhortation; extravagance; exuberance; fertility; filibuster; fluency; groan; gush; gushing; harangue; howl; inaugural; invective; jawing; keen; lament; moan; murmur; mutter; onslaught; oration; outcry; overflow; peroration; philippic; pitch; plaint; prodigality; productivity; profusion; rant; rating; reading; recital; recitation; redundancy; reiteration; salutatory; say; scream; sermon; shriek; sob; speech; squall; superabundance; superfluity; talk; tautology; tirade; valedictory; vilification; vituperation; wail; whimper; whine; yawp; yell; yowl