How to Use backlash in a Sentence

backlash

noun

• How does Netflix prepare you for any backlash or bullying from the public?
  — Vulture, 7 Apr. 2023
• Even by the light-speed standard of social media, Olaplex had a fast rise—and suffered an even quicker backlash.
  — Chavie Lieber, wsj.com, 6 Apr. 2023
• The worldwide backlash was instant and ferocious — and because of his close ties to his sibling, Jake felt it, too.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2024
• This move indeed would require courage to withstand potential backlash and loss of votes, which happily, though, may not happen.
  — Norma Adams-Wade, Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2023
• But after the conservative backlash, Anheuser-Busch sought to calm things through a statement that only seemed to anger everyone.
  — Matt Novak, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• Following backlash, Chilikin removed the offending photo from his page, replacing it with an apology video.
  — Heather Chen, CNN, 5 Apr. 2023
• The recent announcement of Amazon's five-day, in-office mandate has triggered a significant backlash among its employees.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 3 Oct. 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 backlash appeared to have caught Bud Light by surprise.
  — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 31 May 2023
• 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
• But by the 1980s, backlash to these goals was ascendant.
  — Adia Harvey Wingfield, The Conversation, 11 Apr. 2024
• 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 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
• Suddenly, Butch was caught at the center of mass backlash.
  — Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2024
• 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
• Gosling is at the top of his industry and was willing to put himself out there and support his co-star and colleagues – even in the midst of the backlash.
  — Teresa Hopke, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• The video received over 700 thousand likes as well as some backlash, but Fritz was quick to defend his girlfriend.
  — Jamie Ballard, Peoplemag, 11 Aug. 2023
• In 2020, Sia faced backlash for casting Ziegler, who is not autistic, as a nonverbal autistic teen in the film.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• And that backlash has been strong and angering and frustrating.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2023
• Jack Black opened up about the return of Tenacious D after the band abruptly canceled their tour amid backlash.
  — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2024
• The backlash that resulted from the bad optics of splurging on a big party at Cannes led Warner Bros. to pull back this year.
  — Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 15 May 2024
• But the company regards the backlash as a serious threat.
  — John D. McKinnon, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2023
• Four years after George Floyd, the backlash is underway.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2024
• As part of the backlash, the progressive prosecutor Chesa Boudin was recalled by a 55% vote last year.
  — Veronica Miracle, CNN, 16 May 2023

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024