TIRADE in a Sentence

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Milady had listened to all this menacing tirade with a smile of disdain on her lips, but rage in her heart.

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 Meanings and Examples of TIRADE
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tirade
 n.  extended scolding; long angry or violent speech
Classic Sentence:
1  Mr. Alleyne began a tirade of abuse, saying that two letters were missing.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In COUNTERPARTS
2  The tirade continued: it was so bitter and violent that the man could hardly restrain his fist from descending upon the head of the manikin before him.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In COUNTERPARTS
3  'It's not of him I want to hear; I've heard enough of him,' said the stranger, stopping Mr. Bumble in the outset of a tirade on the subject of poor Oliver's vices.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
4  Milady had listened to all this menacing tirade with a smile of disdain on her lips, but rage in her heart.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 58 ESCAPE
Example Sentence:
1  Your tirade is juvenile, hypocritical, and dare I say, unprofessional.
2  He would whip them into a frenzy with tirades against blacks and their traitorous white sympathizers.