How to Use backlash in a Sentence

backlash

noun

• The move has prompted backlash from civil rights groups.
  — Marco Marcelline, PCMAG, 21 Dec. 2022
• Sinema’s decision prompted a quick backlash in the world of tri.
  — Zoë Rom, Outside Online, 17 Dec. 2022
• The policy has sparked intense debate and backlash in the community.
  — Jackson Walker, Baltimore Sun, 22 Dec. 2024
• In addition to having to pay a fine, the franchisee during the summer faced a backlash on social media for offering to pay food instead of cash.
  — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2022
• Then, after screenshots of pages containing racial slurs made the rounds, Stewart responded to the backlash by getting defensive and doubling down.
  — Meg Zukin, Vulture, 21 Dec. 2022
• Lively also faced backlash during her promotion of the film, as fans criticized her for downplaying and being overly dismissive of domestic violence, a key theme in the film.
  — Alison Durkee, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
• So much for a post-strikes backlash against the streamers!
  — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Dec. 2023
• And Garth Brooks has something to say about the Bud Light backlash.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 13 June 2023
• The San Diego backlash over a mileage tax may be just the beginning.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Jan. 2023
• The backlash appeared to have caught Bud Light by surprise.
  — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 31 May 2023
• The show has prompted backlash and support from those on both sides of the issue.
  — Jon Brown, Fox News, 22 Dec. 2022
• On the other there were the people ticked off by the knowledge that there was any backlash at all.
  — Richard Lawler, The Verge, 16 May 2024
• In 2018, Wu opened up about backlash she's faced for dating non-Asian men.
  — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2023
• But by the 1980s, backlash to these goals was ascendant.
  — Adia Harvey Wingfield, The Conversation, 11 Apr. 2024
• Auburn’s hiring of Freeze came with its share of backlash from fans and outsiders alike.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 12 Feb. 2023
• This time, the backlash against Biden’s buyback tax took me by surprise.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 7 Mar. 2023
• With Wayne slamming the backlash against Belichick, some fans flipped his words against him.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 13 Dec. 2024
• To be sure, there is little coherence to the backlash against EVs.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 19 Jan. 2023
• Will there be more outrage, protests and backlash on Oct. 7, less than a month out from Election Day?
  — Candy Woodall, Baltimore Sun, 12 Aug. 2024
• The ensuing backlash wasn’t just the result of a rabid fan base.
  — Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2022
• The backlash and cases like Cox’s raise a couple of key questions: Do pro-life laws change the culture?
  — Nicole Russell, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• Musk’s own attempts to respond to the backlash went poorly.
  — Laura Bratton, Quartz, 5 June 2024
• Some have posited that the tensions at Giant Rock may be fueled, in part, by the same kind of backlash.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
• And nowhere has seen more backlash to date than little Bal Harbour.
  — Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2024
• The airline then walked back some of those changes after facing backlash.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 9 Nov. 2023
• But there has been a backlash in recent years against the groups, which tend to oppose big changes and ambitious projects.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2023
• The danger, though, is how intense the backlash is at the moment, especially against the elites and the technocrats.
  — Patrick J. Deneen, Harper’s Magazine , 5 Jan. 2023
• Suddenly, Butch was caught at the center of mass backlash.
  — Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2024
• That led to a public backlash from the politicians who had protected Adel.
  — AZCentral.com, 8 Jan. 2023
• But the book also details Ford’s life after the confirmation: the death threats, the upheaval, the backlash.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Jan 2025