How to Use rhetoric in a Sentence

rhetoric

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  • But the rhetoric in the crowds at protests in April and May was heated.
    — New York Times, 9 Jan. 2021
  • The rhetoric by the United States here is way off base.
    — Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 29 Feb. 2024
  • But with every first comes the rhetoric of hope and change.
    — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 1 Feb. 2022
  • And, often, this rhetoric around tough on crime is the first tack.
    — ABC News, 19 Dec. 2021
  • And in the wake of the developments, both sides have ramped up the rhetoric.
    — David Rising, Star Tribune, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The turnout was light, but the rhetoric was just as passionate.
    — Luke Money, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2020
  • We’re being asked to tone down the rhetoric in our press, and that is BS.
    — John Shea, SFChronicle.com, 10 June 2020
  • De Niro has been known for his fiery rhetoric against Trump.
    — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The rhetoric from the right has continued to ratchet up.
    — David Gilbert, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2024
  • There’s a lot of tough rhetoric that makes the road to a middle ground — if there is one — tough to find.
    — Michael Smolens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 July 2018
  • The rhetoric from Russia is that it’s the one being threatened.
    — Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Whether that is true or just fall camp rhetoric remains to be seen.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Aug. 2023
  • For years, most of the fiery rhetoric has been coming from North Korea.
    — Dasl Yoon, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Meanwhile, the gun control rhetoric has helped to push gun sales to record heights.
    — Aaron Smith, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The problem with that kind of rhetoric is that a public square is governed by the state.
    — Washington Post, 6 May 2022
  • Her Majesty's words are a sharp turn from Trump's initial rhetoric.
    — Krystin Arneson, Glamour, 17 Nov. 2018
  • All of that was seen in the past week of political rhetoric.
    — Hope Yen, The Denver Post, 14 Sep. 2019
  • So, the ‘overwrought rhetoric about book banning has no place’ in this case.
    — Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 21 Aug. 2022
  • But her rhetoric can be just as bilious, if not more so.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The heated rhetoric is part of a larger fight over oil drilling and climate change.
    — Matthew Daly, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The rhetoric is something like: sure, cardio’s good for your heart, blah blah blah.
    — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Feb. 2023
  • But with so much at stake in this election, this kind of rhetoric was inevitable.
    — Luke McGee, CNN, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Faber’s rhetoric is stronger than most CEOs will venture.
    — Cassie Werber, Quartz at Work, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Some of the rhetoric coming from Labour has been concerning.
    — Svenja O'Donnell, Bloomberg.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The dearth of action being taken to confront these threats have not lived up to the rhetoric.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 22 June 2021
  • Trump’s rhetoric around science may be contributing to the split.
    — Victoria Knight, Quartz, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Stoltenberg would have been so certain in their rhetoric about the enlargement.
    — Eli Stokols, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2022
  • Despite the rhetoric about labor shortages, there are not enough jobs to go around.
    — Sarah Damaske, Time, 7 July 2021
  • The rhetoric that inspired the gunman in El Paso hasn’t lost its prominence.
    — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023
  • But some of it in terms of the rhetoric reflects this sense that America needs to fix itself at home.
    — CBS News, 17 Sep. 2023

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