Sanakirja.org

Esimerkit

• “… No rogue e’er felt the halter draw, with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it. If this long diatribe bores you, just say so, and I’ll cut it short.”
• The senator was prone to diatribes which could go on for more than an hour.
• You know, it’s all this racial diatribe, and very strong language, screaming at the top of his lungs into the telephone. – Bill Crow, Jazz Anecdotes, 1991, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780195071337, page 316.
• Aunt Petunia wasn’t eating anything at all. Her arms were folded, her lips were pursed, and she seemed to be chewing her tongue, as though biting back the furious diatribe she longed to throw at Harry. – J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000, Scholastic Press, ISBN 9780439139595, page 41.