How to Use revile in a Sentence

revile

verb

• Many people reviled him for his callous behavior.
• Whether beloved or reviled, the AR-15 is more than just a gun for much of the United States.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 3 Mar. 2018
• The site has been renowned and reviled for such lightning scoops.
  — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2023
• Chardonnay — no grape on the planet is so revered and so reviled at the same time.
  — Dave Eckert, kansascity.com, 24 May 2017
• Time to give more head space to those who revile him, and their reasons why.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 2 Jan. 2020
• Worse, Trump has urged his followers to revile the rest of the country.
  — William Saletan, Slate Magazine, 8 Aug. 2017
• The Marine Corps quickly made fun of the attempt at cool, and the campaign came to be reviled in the Army as well.
  — Dave Philipps, The Seattle Times, 2 Jan. 2019
• In his time, the Baptist preacher was reviled as much as he was loved.
  — Andrea K. McDaniels, baltimoresun.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• In the end, mother! is a film certain to be revered by some and reviled by others.
  — Christopher Orr, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2017
• Tebow is too revered for his own good; Kaepernick is too reviled.
  — Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 July 2017
• The purpose was to transform Coldplay, which was just about the most popular band in the world—and just about the most reviled, too.
  — Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
• The birds are widely reviled for their carrion-eating ways.
  — Natalie Angier, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
• Few things are reviled in life quite like the middle seat—in fact, some hotels even offer upgrades to those who've been stuffed there en route.
  — Gilbert Ott, CNT, 19 July 2017
• And that children as young as eight years old need to learn the shame and failure of their bodies, to prime them for a lifetime living in a world that reviles their shape.
  — Your Fat Friend, SELF, 30 Sep. 2019
• Most people who revile Jerry Jones do it because of his dismissal of Tom Landry.
  — Peter King, SI.com, 23 Oct. 2017
• Johnson is reviled by critics who brand him a racist and a serial liar, a man whose thirst for power knows no bounds.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 18 June 2019
• They may be reviled as a scourge of urban living, but most of the world's cockroaches don't scurry anywhere near a city.
  — National Geographic, 26 May 2017
• Mr Taylor is still popular in some places—and reviled in others.
  — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
• Suicide Squad, though a financial hit, was even more reviled a few months later.
  — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2019
• Few animals have been as reviled and feared over the years, thanks to Dracula and other blood-sucking lore.
  — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Sep. 2017
• She is reviled by the old boys’ club of a multibillion-dollar industry.
  — Jeff Maillet, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Apr. 2018
• The public flocked to him even while reviling his airline for its poor on-time performance and, soon enough, for its safety record.
  — New York Times, 18 Sep. 2019
• Twenty years later, she was reviled for the same decision and called an enabler.
  — Elizabeth Toohey, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 May 2020
• Many, perhaps most, in Medellin revile him as a homicidal fanatic who turned the town into a free-fire zone.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2022
• And even then, Eyde predicted that magazines like hers wouldn’t always be banned and reviled.
  — Julia Carpenter, Washington Post, 10 July 2017
• Gamal Mubarak, in particular, was reviled more widely than his father during the last years of Mr. Mubarak’s reign.
  — New York Times, 22 Feb. 2020
• Good actors are in bad movies all the time, though admittedly, few have a body of work so largely reviled by critics as Sandler.
  — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 29 Dec. 2019
• Joseph Smith is a deeply divisive figure, and the same basic camps that existed in his own day to either revile or revere the man are alive and well in our own.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 July 2022
• The villains are the ISPs, long reviled for high prices, poor service, and aggressive retention tactics.
  — Michael Wade, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2017
• However, Ravana himself is not reviled across the board.
  — Harish C Menon, Quartz India, 19 June 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024