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How to use the word vitriol in a Sentence?

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When ISIS kicked off in 2014 so did he, and his activities went from a lot of vitriol and hateful rhetoric to really energizing his commitment to mobilizing people to commit acts of violence and to join terrorist organizations.

Rebecca Weiner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This violence against Democrats, Republicans, and nonpartisan officials just doing their jobs are the consequence of lies told for power and profit, lies repeated over and over to generate a cycle of anger, hate, vitriol, and even violence.

Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This is despicable. There's no place in America. There's too much violence, political violence, too much hatred, too much vitriol, and what makes us think that one party can talk about stolen elections? COVID being a hoax? It's all a bunch of lies.

Francisco Chronicle -RRB- Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There's no place in America. There's too much violence, political violence, too much hatred, too much vitriol, and what makes us think that one party can talk about stolen elections? COVID being a hoax? It's all a bunch of lies.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Once again, Amy Wax has, through Amy Wax thoroughly anti-intellectual and racist comments denigrating Asian immigrants, underscored a fundamental tension around harmful speech at American universities, like all racist generalizations, Wax's recent comments inflict harm by perpetuating stereotypes and placing differential burdens on Asian students, faculty, and staff to carry the weight of this vitriol and bias.

Theodore Rugers

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The disinformation that they have been putting out, and the vitriol towards marginalized groups, is a true danger to society, because we need to, we need to work together.

Support Our Schools

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This entire Chantilly Virginia debacle showed one of the weaknesses of Democratic Party which is focusing on their Trump-hate, the same kind of vitriol that they’ve been attacking Rush with since the beginning of the program … They do n’t rely on facts, they just want to smear and discredit their political opponents rather than engage them and it is starting to backfire.

Merrick Garland

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Vigorous debate is one thing, personal vitriol is another. When she returned from maternity leave, Joy Behar actually said she did n’t miss her. That’s a whole bowl of wrong.

Fox News

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think the tsunami of it was what was most surprising -- the rapid escalation and the vitriol of it, students, and I certainly, did not expect that.

Merav Fine Braun

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is just political posturing that nobody needs right now, if the governor's going to do something, he should with his power as governor look at the many broken systems based on the same type of vitriol, contempt, hatred, that caused the murders of these gentlemen. Every system that has been broken, as the governor of Maryland, he alone can change all of it.

Willie Flowers

Found on CNN
2 years ago

For years, we saw former President Donald Trump – along with a number of foreign leaders – successfully utilize Facebook and other large social media platforms to sow misinformation, bully opponents, and spread anti-democratic vitriol, while this is a welcome step by Facebook, the reality is that bad actors still have the ability to exploit and weaponize the platform. Policymakers ultimately must address the root of these issues, which includes pushing for oversight and effective moderation mechanisms to hold platforms accountable for a business model that spreads real-world harm.

Mark Warner

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If we are about to try to impeach a president, where is the chief justice? If the accused is no longer president, where is the constitutional power to impeach him? impeachment is for removal from office and the accused here has already left office. Hyper-partisan Democrats are about to drag our great country into the gutter of rancor and vitriol the likes of which has never been seen in our nation's history.

Rand Paul

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

If it is true that a man who has dominated the news and poisoned the discussion for months needs to repent, then it is doubly true that a nation that can produce such a man and make his vitriol go viral needs to repent, no matter what happens next month, more than a third of the nation that would go along with this, is reason to be afraid. America needs to repent for its worship of Whiteness, on full display this season.

Raphael Warnock

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I think their goal is to scare us away, but thats not going to happen. the threats and vitriol must be stopped. Every day it seems like we hear of a new account of vandalism, threat of violence, or acts of intimidation towards peaceful pro-lifers.

Kristan Hawkins

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The threats and vitriol must be stopped. Every day it seems like we hear of a new account of vandalism, threat of violence, or acts of intimidation towards peaceful pro-lifers, what happened Saturday shows us the worst of the worst of the pro-choicemovement;obscenity, Satan worship, and lewdness towards students. We firmly reject all acts of violence and intimidation towards our students.

Kristan Hawkins

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

There's been a lot of vitriol and misogyny, i think that probably hasn't helped him.

Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Anybody can criticize anything, but the misogynistic vitriol to the point where it is dangerous to be in the streets alone... because it's not just the people who are attacking. It's the other people who feel like they can take that message and do whatever they want.

Oprah Winfrey

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I said : We've seen the situation that's developing outside. Wouldn't it be good to put out a statement on Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch ? Since White House vitriol.The State Department is White House vitriol.The State Department, you know, at least tried to keep Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch in Ukraine. I had gotten that from the newspapers, he listened. White House vitriol.The State Department was White House vitriol.The State Department. Sort of,' Thank you.' White House vitriol.The State Department was the limit of the conversation.

Michael McKinley

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The rubbish that was spouted about Trump yesterday, it’s complete unjustified vitriol against him, i’m not a massive Trump fan but the geezer in my opinion has done nothing wrong.

Robert Stevens

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

When high-profile people choose to take a stand for human rights, it emboldens many others in their struggles against injustice, colin Kaepernick commitment is all the more remarkable because of the alarming levels of vitriol Colin Kaepernick commitment has attracted from those in power.

Salil Shetty

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Contrary to the public vitriol of the moment, the North Koreans were willing to reopen the New York channel following the election of President Trump and his administration signaled an openness to engage and ‘talk about talks,’.

Keith Luse

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I have a kid, seven years old, he can't even watch TV. I used to say, 'I don't want you watching the Kardashians, I want you watching the news so you can learn something,' watching all this nonsense in your party, he turns around and says, 'Dad you're a liar.' He doesn't even know what the word means. But he sees so much vitriol from your party he brings that into our house.

Van Jones

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I know so many people, Muslims, who are such unbelievably great people, and they're being so badly tarnished by what's happening now, it's a shame, but it's a tremendous amount of horror and damage and vitriol.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
8 years ago

He's very reticent to engage in any kind of vitriol with his fellow Republican candidates, there's a lot of recommendations to do so, but it's not in his nature. He is statesman-like.

Kenneth Satterlee

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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