How to Use lambaste in a Sentence

lambaste

verb
  • The coach lambasted the team for its poor play.
  • They wrote several letters lambasting the new law.
  • Sydneysiders in their 20s and 30s took to social media to lambaste the ad.
    — Washington Post, 15 July 2021
  • What to watch: Trump lambasted Powell and the Fed throughout his first term.
    — Courtenay Brown, Axios, 29 Jan. 2025
  • The idea was deservedly lambasted by those on the left, right, and center.
    — Tiffany Donnelly, The Mercury News, 5 June 2024
  • On April 20, the president took to Twitter to lambaste the cartel's push for higher prices.
    — Houston Chronicle, 25 May 2018
  • Most important, listen to the doubters, don’t lambaste them.
    — Stewart Easterby, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The mom then hilariously lambastes her husband for not switching to Spectrum and for the idea of putting the hole in their wall.
    — Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Democrats lambasted the speech as racist and insulting to Black voters.
    — Matt Brown The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 25 Feb. 2024
  • The idea of just lambasting stuff and trying to stuff it down people’s throats would be an anathema to myself and Ken.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Sanders saw CNN’s retraction as an opening to lambaste the channel more.
    — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 June 2017
  • Over the past few years, many have done a complete 180 and have embraced the former president after lambasting him in the past.
    — Hannah Demissie, ABC News, 9 July 2024
  • The White House has reserved most of its ire for top airlines, lambasting them for a raft of fees that Biden has described as costly and unfair.
    — Tony Romm, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
  • In the public backlash at the time, senior politicians as well as Clarkson’s own daughter lambasted the op-ed.
    — Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 1 July 2023
  • That was the case in the 1930s, when Republican leaders lambasted the New Deal as Bolshevism-lite.
    — Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 2 Mar. 2025
  • And there is hope that the brutal honesty of coach Michael Malone, lambasting his team’s Game 2 effort, will serve as the necessary wake-up call.
    — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2023
  • Cruz has joked at least three times about the trip, largely as an effort to lambaste high-profile Democrats for taking vacation.
    — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Tisch lambasted some of the reaction the fatal shooting has drawn, with some praising Mangione as a hero instead of a killer.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 18 Dec. 2024
  • McAfee loudly lambasted the Canadian fans, and the country as a whole, for the booing during the Peacock broadcast.
    — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 6 Mar. 2025
  • But when Sedgwick proceeded to lambaste Darwin in public, the mild-mannered Henslow pulled him back.
    — Christoph Irmscher, WSJ, 28 June 2019
  • Needless to say, this analogy was such a howler that many, many people besides just me took fingers to keyboard to lambaste Robert Bryce, the author of that OpEd.
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2011
  • In January 2023, the Border Patrol union lambasted her lack of progress.
    — Theara Coleman, theweek, 3 July 2024
  • Fans lambasted the pick for being a transparent favor to the team’s superstar, and few believed the younger James was ready to contribute to an NBA team.
    — Ryan Bort, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2025
  • In a final post that seemed to conclude his rant, Trump lambasted Engoron for being biased due to the gag order and the lack of a jury, both things that were Trump’s own doing.
    — Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The president's son had a plea agreement with the Justice Department related to tax and gun charges that many on the Right lambasted as a sweetheart deal.
    — Emily Jacobs, Washington Examiner, 11 Aug. 2023
  • In a final post which seemed to conclude his rant, Trump lambasted Engoron for being biased due to the gag order and the lack of a jury, both things that were Trump’s own doing.
    — Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2023
  • This is the same Partnership that once lobbied behind the scenes in Washington to kill Cape Wind, and helped pay for full-page newspaper ads to publicly lambaste it.
    — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2019
  • The announcement was met with some skepticism from Black consumers, who lambasted the founder for being a sellout.
    — Byruth Umoh, Fortune, 5 June 2024
  • About two dozen protesters held signs lambasting Musk outside a Tesla dealership in London as passing cars and trucks tooted horns in support.
    — CBS News, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Democrats in recent days have lambasted the proposal, which would boost defense spending and cut nondefense programs and was drafted largely without Democratic input.
    — Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 14 Mar. 2025

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