firebrand

Example Sentences

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Even Wall Street Journal editor-at-large Gerard Baker, hardly a left-wing firebrand, quipped that the address was so full of fictions he was beginning to doubt whether the USA men’s hockey team actually won gold.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2026

They can claim the mantle of the firebrand, which is forever out of reach for an institutional figure like Newsom.

From Slate • Feb. 12, 2026

He had an earlier television incarnation as Bill Brand in the 1970s ITV series of the same name about a fictional firebrand Labour MP.

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2025

The real-life character most successfully integrated into the narrative flow is the firebrand anarchist Emma Goldman, played with sobriety mixed with fervor by Shaina Taub, the author and star of the musical “Suffs.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

Old buddy introduced him around till he knew every firebrand among the upper-class fellas the State Department wanted him to groom for revolution.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez