How to Use invective in a Sentence

invective

1 of 2 noun

• Though not to the folks who’ve had to endure the invective.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 14 Sep. 2017
• And there is no doubt that the level of invective on the left runs pretty hot.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 20 Apr. 2018
• The threats are like a bad faucet, a ceaseless stream of invective and hatred.
  — Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 7 Oct. 2019
• If that's you, head to the comments now and unleash that invective!
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2019
• The invective may tell us something about the origins of Covid.
  — Perry Link, WSJ, 13 June 2021
• For a third straight day, profane invective rained from the crowd onto the Astros.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2021
• By the end of today, no invective will have been spared in the decrying of Trump’s insult.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 29 June 2017
• Not exactly the kind of invective that would bring Newt Gingrich to his knees.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2022
• Brown usually breaks the huddle before the first snap with a deluge of invective aimed at the other side of the ball.
  — Brian Hamilton, SI.com, 13 Sep. 2016
• This is 2019, and one of the villains is a pale teen boy who posts offensive invective on Twitter.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2019
• In the videos, the women, with three children in tow, can be heard unleashing a steady stream of invective against Muslims.
  — Mallory Simon, CNN, 16 Mar. 2018
• Firing a water bottle to the back wall of a suite, a la Cam Neely, may be good drama, but not so firing invectives back at the fans.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2023
• Will some of those emails be filled with hateful invective, like several were last fall?
  — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Mar. 2021
• As Ackman widened the scope of his invective from academia to the media in the past week, lampooning and more criticism followed.
  — Annie Massa, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2024
• The final days of the race have especially inflamed the invective.
  — New York Times, 2 Nov. 2017
• Someone who was proud of his heritage but smart enough and self-disciplined enough not to fight back when the racists, in the stands and on the field, started hurling invectives his way.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
• But the torrent of invective against Trump was relentless.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2020
• What stuck with me most, however, were the scenes where Brown looks in the mirror and delivers a bitter stream of brutal invective.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Nov. 2022
• For Caldwell, who is 62, this sort of invective is simply part of American life.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 14 Sep. 2017
• The daily stream of invective from Trump was dizzying to keep track of, and so voluminous as to almost insure that no one could, in fact, do so.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2019
• Others face streams of invective in their inboxes and on their Twitter feeds.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 7 July 2020
• But acting white didn’t stop people from hurling racist invective at her.
  — Esmeralda Bermudez, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
• Each side ended up hurling bitter invective against each other, much of which was true.
  — David Graeber, The New York Review of Books, 13 Jan. 2020
• And in tweets available for anyone to see, the man suspected of killing five at a Maryland newspaper this week broadcast his hate with a stream of invectives.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 29 June 2018
• Two years later, Spiro Agnew, Nixon’s vice president, launched a Trump-style campaign of invective in the off-year elections.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2022
• Trump invective, the former Slim Shady even lambasts his old self for pulling a publicity stunt with the current president back in the day.
  — Raisa Bruner, Time, 15 Dec. 2017
• Infuriated, Herbert launched a stream of invective at the lad who served him.
  — Robert Mitchell, Washington Post, 23 June 2018
• That quickly spread to invective for Taylor, followed by woe-is-us and general malaise.
  — Paul Daugherty, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2020
• Mr Trump’s invective smacks of bigotry: congressmen from poor white districts do not receive insults in the same vein.
  — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
• As the semester wound down, several Black students received threatening phone calls laced with racial invective.
  — TIME, 19 Dec. 2023

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invective

2 of 2 adjective

• Please come to the plate with facts and reason, not invective.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 3 June 2020
• When the quit this year, , a tsunami of invective washed over social media, calling him a communist, a traitor, a crook.
  — Washington Post, 3 June 2020
• Now, Carroll is seeking millions of dollars more to stop the river of invective.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
• This is not a time for cynicism or invective or second-guessing.
  — Andrew Taylor, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2020
• After pounding on the dashboard, raising the hood, and hurling invective at the hapless Jeep, Arutunoff headed for a telephone to call Aberlich and threaten to set his Jeep on fire.
  — William Jeanes, Car and Driver, 9 Apr. 2023
• The report also said board members received threatening and invective-laden emails.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 16 Nov. 2021
• Hytner tends to stay away from the self-revealing (except for his run-in with Harold Pinter, which is so invective-strewn it can’t be reproduced here without making the paragraph look like a night sky of asterisks).
  — Peter Lewis, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2017
• Spend your fight on nasty jabs at the opposition, invective at party rivals, cable-show drama, and personal crusades?
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
• Critics have praised both the show and Australian actor Jason Clarke’s intense portrayal of West as a volatile man given to bursts of invective, impressive in their duration and profane inventiveness.
  — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2022
• Trump threw invective at mainstream media outlets, but readers, subscribers, viewers and advertisers all threw dollars at them.
  — Jacob S. Hacker, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2022
• The column is a strange mélange of quotes from celebrities, conservative political analysis, invective against foes real and perceived, anecdotes about the peculiarity of life in Manhattan, and aphorisms and puns.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 20 Aug. 2021
• Daldry achieves latitude by balancing invective with humor in confrontations that are always honest and leveling.
  — Armond White, National Review, 3 Sep. 2021
• Please come to the plate with facts and reason, not invective.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 3 June 2020
• When the quit this year, , a tsunami of invective washed over social media, calling him a communist, a traitor, a crook.
  — Washington Post, 3 June 2020
• Now, Carroll is seeking millions of dollars more to stop the river of invective.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
• This is not a time for cynicism or invective or second-guessing.
  — Andrew Taylor, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2020
• After pounding on the dashboard, raising the hood, and hurling invective at the hapless Jeep, Arutunoff headed for a telephone to call Aberlich and threaten to set his Jeep on fire.
  — William Jeanes, Car and Driver, 9 Apr. 2023
• The report also said board members received threatening and invective-laden emails.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 16 Nov. 2021
• Hytner tends to stay away from the self-revealing (except for his run-in with Harold Pinter, which is so invective-strewn it can’t be reproduced here without making the paragraph look like a night sky of asterisks).
  — Peter Lewis, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2017
• Spend your fight on nasty jabs at the opposition, invective at party rivals, cable-show drama, and personal crusades?
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
• Critics have praised both the show and Australian actor Jason Clarke’s intense portrayal of West as a volatile man given to bursts of invective, impressive in their duration and profane inventiveness.
  — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2022
• Trump threw invective at mainstream media outlets, but readers, subscribers, viewers and advertisers all threw dollars at them.
  — Jacob S. Hacker, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2022
• The column is a strange mélange of quotes from celebrities, conservative political analysis, invective against foes real and perceived, anecdotes about the peculiarity of life in Manhattan, and aphorisms and puns.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 20 Aug. 2021
• Daldry achieves latitude by balancing invective with humor in confrontations that are always honest and leveling.
  — Armond White, National Review, 3 Sep. 2021

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