tirade

Example Sentences

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Simon unleashed a tirade at Coach executive Todd Kahn during their first meeting in the first decade of the 2000s, after the handbag maker tried to renege on deals to open stores in Simon malls.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

A disheveled man sick of endless waiting launched into an eloquent tirade ending with Samuel Beckett -- "You know what happened in the story of Godot? He never came."

From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026

The Elmo hack follows an incident earlier this month where X’s chatbot, Grok, also went on an antisemitic tirade.

From Salon • Jul. 14, 2025

"It's the dumbest thing you could possibly do to think that you have more power than the president of the United States," Gerber said, referring to Musk's social media tirade against Trump.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2025

I stared at my broken phone, lips pressed together to prevent an angry tirade.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas