The phrase "a storm of abuse" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where someone is subjected to a large amount of criticism or insults, often in a sudden and overwhelming manner.
Example: "After the controversial decision was announced, the politician faced a storm of abuse from the public and the media."
Alternatives: "a barrage of insults" or "a flood of criticism".
Both he and Devlin then copped a storm of abuse on social media.
c7018c16-5a32-4399-809f-7f977a830a04 EARLIER this month the president's chief economic adviser, Gregory Mankiw, once Harvard's youngest tenured professor, attracted a storm of abuse.
This essay set off a storm of abuse: lectures by Judt were cancelled under pressure and he was dropped by magazines he had written for.
All the same, Frances Ryan, whose article arguing that "cripping up" will one day be seen to be as wrong as blacking up – which brought a storm of abuse – made some fair points.
"If even a small thing like this, a nice middle-class debate about putting Jane Austen's picture on the opposite side of a bank note from the queen causes a storm of abuse like this, what will happen when we get to the bigger issues?" she said in a telephone interview.
The next day, 19 Brumaire, when the councils met at Saint-Cloud, blundered blundered through a speech before the Ancients and later was met by a storm of abuse in the meeting place of the Five Hundred, whose members, hearing rumours and seeing troops all about, began to perceive the real plot that was brewing.
Her appointment prompted fierce criticism from the anti-immigrant Northern League and a storm of vituperative abuse on the web, some of it obscene.
But what became very clear in Jones's case was that relying on people to report this type of behaviour is completely inadequate in cases where a storm of coordinated abuse has been stirred up and deliberately incited against an individual.
When the theory of creation by evolution "was first advanced it was met by a storm of dogmatic abuse.
For almost a year, Anglin has been on the lam in an attempt to avoid responsibility for urging his readers to direct a "troll storm" of abuse at Tanya Gersh, a Jewish real estate agent in Whitefish, Montana, who had become embroiled in a feud with the mother of Richard Spencer, a prominent white nationalist.
And the Speaker was forced to suspend the Commons for 10 minutes after the prime minister was subjected to a storm of jeers and abuse as he confirmed the total.
