How to Use on the warpath in a Sentence

on the warpath

idiom
  • Ruth, for one thing, is clearly now on the warpath with her shotgun, ready to hunt down Javi and avenge her cousin.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Western went on the warpath last week, putting up 91 points against an overmatched Taravella squad.
    Adam Lichtenstein, sun-sentinel.com, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Cohen on the warpath can be funnily vulgar about Trump, but he’s also grown self-righteous about it.
    Laura Kipnis, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Dee should be on the warpath after she was suddenly blindsided and thrown into elimination.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 18 June 2020
  • For the last six weeks, McConnell and many other Republicans stayed silent as Trump went on the warpath to overturn the election by lobbing unprecedented challenges against the nation’s voting system.
    Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Among the left-of-center, this puts Reed at odds with just about everyone, which means that there are few more interesting developments in intellectual politics than the news that Adolph Reed is on the warpath.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
  • This is because Fifa is on the warpath to pierce the earnings bubble intermediaries have been receiving for some time and according to a report in The Athletic is poised to finally take significant action in doing so.
    Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 17 May 2022
  • Brockovich has been on the warpath fighting not only water contamination, but other problematic developments that impact vulnerable communities, like dangerous medical devices, for the past 24 years.
    Sam Gillette, PEOPLE.com, 27 Aug. 2020

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