How to Use inveigh against in a Sentence

inveigh against

verb
  • Shehab inveighed against Hamas leaders who had declared that the people of Gaza were undefeated in the war.
    — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Democrats and liberals strongly believe Trump has overreached yet again — albeit not in quite such egregious terms — by inveighing against Bad Bunny.
    — Niall Stanage, The Hill, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Khomeini, by then an old man, inveighed against the Shah from Najaf, Iraq, because he hadn’t been allowed in Iran since 1964.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The aggression with which both parties have worked to manipulate district lines—while loudly inveighing against the other party for doing the exact same thing—is cynical and depressing.
    — Ian Crouch, New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Only Ginsberg remained true to himself, Naomi and Lewis’ good Jewish boy from Patterson who inveighed against injustice and for the restorations of tikkun olam.
    — Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
  • In imposing the penalty, the largest ordered by a court on a company in the history of Australia’s labor laws, Federal Court Judge Michael Lee also inveighed against the airline’s litigation strategy.
    — CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2025
  • At a recent campus campaign stop, Florida GOP gubernatorial candidate James Fishback dropped some unusual verbiage while inveighing against junk food in school cafeterias.
    — Andrew Lapin, Sun Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2026

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