Sentence examples for revile from high-quality English sources.

• The labour movement continued to revile Pullman.

• Unfortunately, many people in America revile them.

• Trump, whom many conservatives revile, at the top of the Republican ticket.

• “If we don’t have toilet paper, will we revile our family members who aren’t clean in the way we expect them to be?”

• Most American Republicans and some Democrats revile it.

• Tradition-minded Bolivians call her an anarchist and revile her lesbianism.

• “It is both ignominious and hypocritical to revile China with double standards.”

• The Saudis are seeking not only to thwart Houthi rebels, whose Iranian backing they revile.

Use revile in a sentence.

• The authorities across the Taiwan Strait probably revile Mr Lai even more than they do Ms Tsai.

• His task is to win over the kirchneristas without driving away the many Argentines who revile them.

• King Vajiralongkorn’s actions could determine whether Thailand continues to revere royalty, or starts to revile it

• But to succeed in the general election he must not drive away those voters who revile the sheriff and oppose his pardoning.

• But they revile the system of favouritism and patronage built by the ruling party, of which the 30% quota is a centrepiece.

• Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude you and revile you, and cast out your name as evil, on account of the Son of man!

• The scheme they revile, launched by the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet 35 years ago, was a model for other developing countries such as Peru and Colombia.

• But female netizens continued to revile “Lovely land”, or Jiangshanjiao by her Chinese name, as a symbol of all that is decidedly unlovely about women’s lives in their land.

revile sentence examples

• Salman Rushdie, an author whom Islamists revile, stayed away, warned by police that two assassins had been dispatched by a Mumbai mafioso to prowl among the literati and murder him.

• When we praise and reward certain stories or images, whether by big box office or gold statuary, we reveal what we as a society value, the kinds of people we find interesting, the characteristics we revere and revile.

• Then we must assume a control over the narrators of this class of tales as well as over the others, and beg them not simply to revile but rather to commend the world below, intimating to them that their descriptions are untrue, and will do harm to our future warriors.

• And surely not bad men, whether cowards or any others, who do the reverse of what we have just been prescribing, who scold or mock or revile one another in drink or out of drink, or who in any other manner sin against themselves and their neighbours in word or deed, as the manner of such is.