How to Use outrage in a Sentence
- The rule is an outrage against women.
- Public outrage over the scandal was great.
- Many people expressed outrage at the court's decision.
- This is an outrage! I won't allow this kind of behavior to continue.
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The woke left fell for its own outrage trap.
—Brilyn Hollyhand, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
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Ed looked at his face, tried for some outrage.
—Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
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Our outrage, yours and mine, will not be to scale.
—Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 16 May 2026
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That makes some of this outrage feel phony.
—ABC News, 10 June 2026
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Morris leaped for it, his face a mask of outrage.
—Stephen King, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
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Public outrage forced the city to shelve the idea.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2026
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Soon enough, there was even more reason for outrage.
—Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026
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Spare me your fake f****** outrage, Sean.
—Nidia Cavazos, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
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Ten weeks later, his killing has sparked grief and outrage.
—Leo Bertucci, Louisville Courier Journal, 11 Sep. 2025
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But that has not stemmed local outrage.
—Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 2 June 2026
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Her death sparked outrage across the country.
—Ryan Oehrli january 6, Charlotte Observer, 6 Jan. 2026
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The shootdown was met with outrage.
—Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 20 May 2026
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Democrats were quick to express outrage.
—David A. Lieb, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
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Stop with this fake outrage nonsense.
—Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 June 2026
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Quigley is an outrage, Birchmore may be even worse.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 26 Apr. 2026
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The ruling has sparked outrage.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 10 June 2026
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The first trailer for the show caused fan outrage over the racial issues.
—Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026
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The platform and the resellers soak up the outrage.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2026
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Kirk’s death was a much fresher outrage, not yet twenty-four hours old.
—Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2025
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Burr said about the outrage over the festival.
—Zack Sharf, Variety, 8 Oct. 2025
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His statement did little to quell the outrage.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2026
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Spare me the feigned outrage, Feeny.
—Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
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The idea has sparked outrage and legal action.
—Rick Maese, Washington Post, 14 May 2026
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The faux outrage has been truly insane.
—Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 June 2026
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Signing on to a boycott is an easy way to show outrage, to perform it.
—Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2025
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Meeting their needs requires more than outrage.
—Karen Parry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2025
- His comments outraged nearly everyone in the room.
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And he may well be outraged by the ruling.
—David Pozen, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2026
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Many fans online were outraged by the price.
—Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2026
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There is no reason to be outraged.
—Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
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So why isn't the media outraged about it?
—Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 June 2026
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If these protests outrage or upset you, well, that’s the point.
—Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2022
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But the video, which came out three weeks ago, has outraged many of the business class.
—Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 6 May 2026
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That those things just become sort of this way to outrage and anger people.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
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Some parents, shocked and outraged, kept their kids home from school in response.
—Rosanna Xiastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2019
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New Yorkers should be outraged.
—Betsy McCaughey, Boston Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
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The video of what Barkley does next has gone viral and outraged the bigots.
—Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
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The move outraged leading Democrats.
—Franco Ordoñez, NPR, 2 Oct. 2025
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Her attempt to close the book on the Epstein saga outraged many on the right.
—Joey Cappelletti, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2025
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My body was sharp, the dark air clean / and outrage my joyful companion.
—Brendan Fitzgerald, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
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Orlando was right to be outraged.
—Jesse Plunkett, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 May 2026
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The court of public opinion would also be outraged.
—Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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They were moved by Jan’s story and outraged by the injustice of her death.
—Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
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Baker, who has since deceased, was outraged at what the company was about to do.
—Sarah Bowman, IndyStar, 19 Dec. 2019
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In the comments section of the video, many users were outraged by the hotel’s actions.
—Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 21 Feb. 2024
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Fans were outraged by the remarks, as were some of Amell's fellow actors.
—Brendan Morrow, The Week, 1 Aug. 2023
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In many cases, residents have been outraged with the use of pepper spray at point-blank range.
—Minneapolis Star Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026
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Few of us are at our best when outraged, but Erykah Badu is not like everybody else.
—Jeremy Hallock, Dallas News, 23 Feb. 2020
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The gross attempt at humor prompted some laughs, but also outrage.
—Oliver Darcy, CNN, 28 June 2023
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This outraged me enough to call and inquire about the rest of the listings, the ones that didn’t mention vouchers at all.
—Leila Atassi, cleveland.com, 28 Aug. 2019
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This, apparently, was meant to outrage the viewers even more.
—TIME, 8 Jan. 2024
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That outraged many people, because there should be no context in which a call for genocide is allowed.
—Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2024
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Kennedy family members were outraged by the center’s name change.
—Garrett Downs, CNBC, 19 Dec. 2025
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The shooting has left many in the community outraged.
—Josh Sanders, CBS News, 25 June 2026
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As did a man in Germany, who was a fan of his book and outraged by his Instagram post.
—Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 22 Apr. 2026
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Waldorf and her family were outraged by the ordeal.
—Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 2 June 2026
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