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How to use philippics in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word philippics? Here are some examples.

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They have also launched countless philippics against Labour's love of the target and the quota, and all manner of diktat from Whitehall.
I wonder if the new editor of the Daily Telegraph has any Irish blood and will tone down the paper's anti-euro, anti-EU philippics.
The Athenian orator Demosthenes despised the invader Phillip of Macedon, and berated him in a series of stinging speeches, or philippics.
As my prior philippics against employer-provided insurance suggest, I think this case ultimately fails.
In exile in the West from 1974, his gloomy philippics and increasingly turgid prose aroused more bafflement than appreciation.
The principal burden of all this fell upon Asquith, but Lloyd George gave him vigorous support in a series of notable philippics against the aristocracy and the rich.
My own favorite atheist blogger, Jerry Coyne, the University of Chicago evolutionary biologist, regularly offers unanswerable philippics against the idiocies of intelligent design.
Examples from Classical Literature
We stood on this Pnyx, beyond doubt on the same spot where Demosthenes thundered his philippics in the ears of the Athenians.
While he was speaking his philippics they could not but be243 enthusiastic on the same side.
Cicero, in his philippics, actuated in great measure by personal animosity, gives a highly unfavourable view of his character.
Here he took a leading part in the opposition to Antony, against whom he delivered the fourteen orations known as the philippics.
Herennius cut off his head and the hands, pursuant to the command of Antonius, with which he wrote the philippics.
At length Lawyer abruptly left the council in the midst of one of Looking Glasss philippics, and retired to his lodge.
The momentum of his own philippics had brought Saul Fulton to his feet.
He himself called these philippics, and there are three of them.
I will venture to quote from a contemporary his praise of the philippics.
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