Sentence examples for giving vent to from inspiring English sources

"giving vent to" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to indicate that someone is expressing their feelings or opinion in a strong, sometimes potentially explosive manner. For example, "The crowd was giving vent to their anger as their team lost the championship game."

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Probably hundreds of people were giving vent to frustration in much the same way.

At first Roy demurs; soon he is giving vent to his own resentments.

It can be a way of creating your own pornography and giving vent to unactable desire.

Truffaut answered by giving vent to fifteen years of pent-up grudges in a furious twenty-page letter.

But the leadership clearly reckons that giving vent to public anger would be even more destabilising than suppressing it.

So I don't write, but I do bore my friends at lunch giving vent to my fear.

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He also gave vent to his cantankerous, contrarian personality.

Iain has recently given vent to his feelings about immigration.

Mr Fisher's Twitter feed also gave vent to his republican sympathies.

As she said, "Acting gives vent to all the people I want to be".

She gives vent to her displeasure by attempting to kill both her daughter and her grandson.

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