How to Use vehemence in a Sentence

vehemence

noun

• The vehemence with which the question is posed these days seems linked to a turn to pessimism across the West.
  — Matti Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2023
• The cat bites with vehemence and a yowl that communicates even to the unschooled.
  — Alexandra Horowitz, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2022
• The mentions of that word — impeachment — run the gamut from vehemence to caution.
  — Chelsea Bailey and Sam Petulla, NBC News, 19 May 2017
• The vehemence and endurance of the protest movement seems to suggest that gaslighting is no longer working.
  — Washington Post, 10 May 2022
• The difference this time is the vehemence with which young Burmese refuse to revert to the tyranny and poverty their parents knew.
  — The Economist, 13 Mar. 2021
• The vehemence of the opposition to the clinic has come as a shock to Chris Viens, 49, one of three board members who has supported the idea.
  — New York Times, 5 June 2022
• When Moctar played at the Cat 16 months ago, backed by the same three musicians, the vehemence of his performance came as a surprise.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2019
• Arthur Jussen, handling the piano solo that runs through the piece, played with jaunty flair that darkened to vehemence.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Sep. 2019
• Dawson seizes the humor, pathos and tragedy of the sorrow songs of the cottonfield with an oracular vehemence.
  — Joseph Horowitz, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2020
• For the last two years, Trump has bullied Powell for keeping rates too high—and has done so with increasing vehemence.
  — Gwynn Guilford, Quartz, 31 July 2019
• Does that indicate the vehemence of the hen's rejection?
  — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 26 Aug. 2011
• During the past week, I’ve been fascinated by the response — and the vehemence of that response — from various quarters of the Mormon world.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 July 2022
• The hall’s old incarnation tended to muffle some of that vehemence, so the orchestra had to blare louder and bow harder to get its points across.
  — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2022
• The sheer vehemence of Winogrand’s career is even more astonishing than the excellence of his work.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2019
• Throughout her career, the richness of O’Connor’s music was often surpassed by the vehemence and scorch of her politics.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 27 July 2023
• But in recent days, some men are pushing back, publicly and with increasing vehemence.
  — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2018
• It’s that kind of vehemence or zealotry, which comes with a point of view and wanting to indoctrinate people with a very polarized and divisive view.
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2021
• Silva has come to intervene on Joe’s behalf, but his loyalties are tested when Jake’s vehemence about staying on the right side of the law leads to a volatile three-way showdown.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2023
• Amid this epidemic of hatred masquerading as holiness, the vehemence with which Lil Nas X rejects this false gospel should be the least of our concerns.
  — Rev. Jacqui Lewis, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Apr. 2021
• And anyhow, this account still doesn’t explain the vehemence of Trump’s preelection denials.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 31 Oct. 2017
• Each competitor in the agon is expected to stake his or her claims on truth; Nietzsche advanced his own opinions with utmost vehemence.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
• The trio was pilloried with a vehemence that suggested the group had committed multiple acts of treason.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 July 2022
• What comes through now is the vehemence and sulky confusion of a generation’s anti-American snit.
  — Armond White, National Review, 2 June 2021
• Usually in a good way, but not always: Although related, vehemence and eloquence are different, the way that mass and muscle are.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• Then, in an orchestral transition, comes that second burst of vehemence.
  — New York Times, 11 May 2018
• Some scholars believe violence and vehemence may share a common Latin origin, a lost participle of the verb vehere, to carry.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2016
• Pence talked over the moderator and Harris but without any real vehemence.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2020
• The Maricopa County Board, which had long opposed the recount, has ratcheted up its pushback with uncommon vehemence.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2021
• And a certain smoldering vehemence in Hopper puts me in mind of Théodore Géricault, except tamped down to static views of drab actualities.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
• In this case, the judge expressed, with equal vehemence, his skepticism about the department declining to challenge the CVS-Aetna merger more forcefully.
  — Brent Kendall, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2018

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