How to Use firebrand in a Sentence

firebrand

noun

• This messy firebrand was now out there sounding like a damn goober.
  — Allison P. Davis, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2021
• That could also work with moderates who see him as more of a manager than a firebrand.
  — New York Times, 14 Apr. 2021
• Friends and colleagues from his younger days wouldn’t easily peg Ruddy as a right-wing firebrand.
  — Washington Post, 6 May 2021
• Claire Foy plays Salome Friesen, the colony’s firebrand.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Republic, 19 Dec. 2022
• Carter’s gamble to hire this clever firebrand paid off.
  — Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2022
• The far-right firebrand Eric Zemmour did clear that bar with a 7 percent share.
  — Arthur Goldhammer, The New Republic, 11 Apr. 2022
• Jonathan had cast a vote for Vivek Ramaswamy, the 38-year-old firebrand businessman.
  — Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2024
• Gottheimer is no populist firebrand; his commitment to the repeal of the SALT cap gives away the game.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 4 July 2022
• Hard not to believe in him now, still at just 37, a wunderkind turned firebrand of fashion.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 5 May 2022
• Far-left firebrand Jean-Luc Melenchon — one of half a dozen candidates on the left — has seen a late rise in the polls.
  — Thomas Adamson, ajc, 10 Apr. 2022
• That has left an opening for Nigel Farage, the populist firebrand who leads Reform.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 12 June 2024
• But charges of politicization – and a firebrand senator – doomed the project.
  — Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2024
• There have been whispers that Kohli, unfathomably, should be dropped although no one close to the scene is brave enough to suggest that to the firebrand.
  — Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
• Arnn—a friend of one of the committee members, the conservative firebrand William F. Buckley, Jr.—was at the top of the shortlist.
  — Emma Green, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
• Others seem to believe Mr. Jordan is too much of a firebrand to serve as the party’s frontman.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2023
• The Bryant, a firebrand of a preacher, was the engine behind the growth, which the church touts as the most rapid for any Black congregation in history.
  — Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 2 July 2021
• It was designed, consciously or not, to enhance her brand—or firebrand, in this case.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2021
• But it was built on the skeleton of a soap, with Alex in the role of aging diva and Witherspoon’s firebrand Bradley Jackson as a younger upstart.
  — TIME, 14 Mar. 2024
• Fiona O’Leary is a fearless firebrand, who is a mother of five children, four of whom were diagnosed with autism.
  — Kristen V Brown, Bloomberg.com, 1 Feb. 2023
• Click here for a look at what the two-term senator from Texas and conservative firebrand told Fox News about 2024.
  — Paul Steinhauser, Fox News, 5 Sep. 2021
• Nadler became a fan of Bella Abzug, the feminist firebrand who was elected to Congress in 1970.
  — Paul Schwartzman, Washington Post, 19 July 2022
• Kelly is not a firebrand, not a pitcher who barks at umpires or leaps off the mound to celebrate strikeouts.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 15 May 2023
• His firebrand past dissolved as age and illness took its toll on the once-charismatic figure.
  — NBC News, 18 Sep. 2021
• Mickelson, with a reputation as a golf firebrand, might relish a court challenge to the PGA Tour’s right to ban him.
  — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 6 June 2022
• Reuven Kahane has also been identified as a cousin of the firebrand rabbi in past media reports through the decades.
  — Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 8 May 2024
• Candace Owens took aim at Lizzo‘s appearance this week, and the pop star’s fans stepped in to defend her from the firebrand’s body-shaming commentary.
  — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 13 Apr. 2023
• For Nachminovitch, the firebrand by nature was stepping out from behind the diplomat by need.
  — Gene Weingarten, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2021
• Now, the firebrand congresswoman is just one more first-place finish away from what is probably a safe House seat for life.
  — Kaleigh Rogers, ABC News, 10 May 2024
• Macron’s Ensemble allies have also called on their supporters to prevent the far right taking office, but have warned against lending their votes to the firebrand Melenchon.
  — Saskya Vandoorne, CNN, 1 July 2024
• The judge who heard the case, Stephen J. Roth, was a Hungarian immigrant and former prosecutor who was hardly a liberal firebrand.
  — Michelle Adams, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024