fulminate
verb (used without object)
to explode with a loud noise; detonate.
had fulminated
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past perfectof fulminate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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If you had fulminated then to your family and colleagues as even respected peers, novelists and philosophers now routinely fulminate on Twitter, you’d have alienated everyone you knew.
From The Guardian ● May 3, 2019
Earlier in the week the Japanese War Ministry had fulminated against the meddlesomeness in Manchuria of consular and military "observers" sent there by the Great Powers.
From Time Magazine Archive
He accepted, therefore, of Lewis's offer to renounce the council of Lyons; and he took off the excommunication which his predecessor and himself had fulminated against that king and his kingdom.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary by David Hume
The buffoons and mimes and masquers, against whom the Church had fulminated in the Middle Ages, and whom the scholars of the Revival looked down upon with condescending indulgence, now lifted up their heads.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi
Henry remembered how his father had fulminated against the smooth Englishman who had proposed to turn Glendalough into a place like the Potteries or Wigan.
From Changing Winds A Novel by St. John G. (St. John Greer) Ervine
