How to Use backlash in a Sentence

backlash

noun

• This time, the backlash against Biden’s buyback tax took me by surprise.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 7 Mar. 2023
• The bill has since stalled in the House amid backlash, with nine sponsors removing their names as supporters.
  — Kimberlee Kruesi and Geoff Mulvihill, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2023
• The video went viral and quickly generated backlash from locals and foreigners alike.
  — Lilit Marcus, CNN, 15 Mar. 2023
• The Trump supporter's comments met with significant backlash.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
• Musk’s coziness with Republicans and leadership of the social network has been met with backlash from Democrats.
  — Cat Zakrzewski, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2023
• The news was met with some backlash from local residents, fearing further depletion of water resources and damage to the environment.
  — Sanam Mahoozi, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
• The rejection of the measure by Oklahoma voters points to a backlash against the state’s burgeoning marijuana business.
  — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2023
• During her tenure, Banks faced backlash from fans who slammed her for her several on-air mistakes, including mistaking one safe dance couple for another that was in the bottom.
  — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2023
• Similar law enforcement efforts in other California cities have been met with swift community backlash.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Fear of further controversy or a backlash from pro-Israeli supporters appears to have scared off U.S. distributors.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024