How to Use flack in a Sentence

flack

noun

• Don’t give these guys too much flack here.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026
• Some people still give them flack, but others can’t thank them enough.
  — Sarah Weinberg, House Beautiful, 9 Aug. 2018
• The indie’s gotten recent flack for its sub-par wages.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2025
• There are flacks, and then there are people who really work a story.
  — Los Angeles Magazine, 19 Dec. 2017
• Twitter’s board will take flack for getting outfoxed by Musk.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 18 May 2022
• While the action may have received some flack, Southwest stood by their good deed.
  — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2022
• Young people get a lot of flack these days, for killing mayonnaise and golf and lots of other things.
  — Casey Newton, The Verge, 25 Oct. 2018
• The show has gotten some flack for its stiff acting and canned lines in the past, but hey, what teen drama hasn't?
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 20 May 2020
• Blocks), but now the series has been getting some flack for featuring its first-ever trio, too.
  — Blair Donovan, Country Living, 27 Feb. 2019
• The omission earned the sketch series flack from Internet users.
  — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 15 Oct. 2017
• Here are the other times Braun has gotten flack for what some view as political gaffes.
  — Kaitlin Lange, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Mar. 2022
• Netflix’s original and acquired films have gotten a lot of flack in recent years.
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2023
• Actress Blanca Blanco ditched the black dress code for a red cut-out dress, and was catching flack for it.
  — Hayley Kaufman, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2018
• Scream 3 is often dealt a short shrift by series fans and critics alike, but the flack is largely undeserving.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 11 Jan. 2023
• The industry has received a lot of deserved flack for the dubious provenance of these metrics.
  — Aaron Fletcher, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2021
• Kelce got some flack for the ’fit, as people who are in high profile positions often do for, simply, wearing anything at all.
  — Nick Remsen, Vogue, 26 Sep. 2023
• In the last few weeks Netflix has also had some flack around its plans to stop password sharing, which has drawn heavy criticism from users.
  — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
• The title, much like the addition of the x that makes these Spanish words gender neutral, has received some flack.
  — Alán Pelaez Lopez, refinery29.com, 12 June 2022
• And the company has taken plenty of flack for its failure to keep extremists and scammers off its channels.
  — Brian Barrett, Wired, 14 Oct. 2021
• The app caught some flack this spring over reports that some sessions were hacked or hijacked – similar to Zoom-bombing reports months ago.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2020
• This is the network of aggressive public relations flacks and lawyers who guard the secrets of those who employ them and keep their misdeeds out of public view.
  — Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2017
• Wear Daily, Parker also lauded the cast members, who have gotten a lot of flack for their maturing looks.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2021
• Earlier this year, the two got flack for their Kendall + Kylie Shiloh slip-on, for how similar their shoe was to a Chanel style.
  — Donna Freydkin, Allure, 29 June 2017
• Davis, meanwhile, drew mild criticism for requesting a trade out of New Orleans, but took no flack for teaming with James.
  — Tania Ganguli, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2019
• The two players ignored me completely, instead zeroing in on the NBA flack.
  — Tom Scharpling, Vulture, 12 July 2021
• Snapchat took a lot of flack for its redesign, including from celebrity users like Chrissy Teigen and Kylie Jenner.
  — Kurt Wagner, Recode, 24 Apr. 2018
• Despite this transparency, Uber still got flack for refusing to release the full report commissioned in the wake of Fowler’s memo.
  — Jessi Hempel, WIRED, 11 July 2018
• For all the feverish love and acclaim Game of Thrones has accrued over the years, the show has also taken plenty of flack for its gender politics.
  — Emma Dibdin, Marie Claire, 8 Sep. 2017
• John Deere has gotten a lot of flack in recent years for keeping a pretty tight grip at how customers use the farming equipment that John Deere sells.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2023
• The aforementioned flack offered to put me in touch with his client, the CEO of a company that runs corporate gift card programs.
  — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2022