Example Sentences

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He harangues referees and reporters and doesn’t hold back when communicating with his players.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Prigozhin somewhat toned down his harangues against the military leadership after that, but remained defiant.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2023

It contains one sequence from a local TV programme where a young Johnson, sporting long hair, harangues a group of politicians for ruining the environment of his native Canvey Island.

From BBC • Nov. 23, 2022

Even as futurists and Dadaists “laid siege to a Wagnerian culture, they worked from a Wagnerian script” of “artistic harangues in an apocalyptic register.”

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2020

These threatening harangues managed to delay matters, but the Deep South lacked the votes.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis