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Sentence Examples His singing talent aside, he brings together energy, ferocity, sexuality, swagger, and sensitivity in a powerful Byronic persona. Ana is a nurse whose husband is zombified by the neighbour girl and turns on his wife with incredible speed and ferocity. Retailers of the legend seem stupefied by Tamerlane, never knowing whether to praise him for his military prowess or shudder at his ferocity. His drawings of mature male warrior types of leonine or dragon-like ferocity are a wonderful case in point. His ruggedly handsome features and lion-like eyes lend him a subtle air of ferocity, despite his blank expression. A double-page album conveys all the panic, speed, ferocity, movement and verve of the hunt. I heard not a few gasps of shock from the audience as the pianist moved from near silence in lento to a sudden ferocity in attacca. She was elegance, sensuality, and ferocity all rolled into one luscious woman. But none of these battles had the ferocity that battles had back in the day, and most were very subliminal. He struck the ball with ferocity, tearing into the Lincoln attack with relish. You see, he has learned a thing or two from my own back-stabbing acts of rapine ferocity, and doubtless he is applying it to his own affairs. You respected him as an unbelievable scrapper with a never-say-die ferocity to play every match as if it was his last. When he gets a properly written scene he seizes it by the scruff of the neck and shakes the juices out of it with Doberman ferocity. Large packs of black matted mastiffs prowl the streets for scraps, occasionally breaking into fights of heart-stopping ferocity. Found in the third century BC, the crocodile was respected by the Egyptians for its power and ferocity. The Viking berserker was thought not only to have assumed the ferocity of an animal, but also to have acquired the strength of a grizzly. The winds, from which we had been somewhat shielded when we were behind the superstructure, began to churn the helicopter with new ferocity. The bulldog, although bred originally for close encounters in blood sports, was a cuddlesome, affable creature beneath the ferocity and gore. He also has an eminently sane attitude to the ferocity of past arguments about the relative influences of nature and nurture. What was most striking to an outsider's sensibility was the impression that the ferocity of the battle for power was matched only by its vacuity. Show More Sentences Were the sadness, the fear, the ferocity, related to the darker side of Nubian culture? The ferocity of the assault was such that he passed out and remembers nothing further of the attack. The temperature often topped 50 degrees celsius and the hot thermal winds blew with unbelievable ferocity. Then there's the shockwave, a phenomenon of such ferocity that it jams the hydraulics and freezes the controls. Some may be put off by the sheer ferocity of her coloratura and expressive devices, but I find them apt, thrilling, and awesomely accurate. The ferocity of the seas and winds however, meant that the rescue was far from straightforward. An album that finally demonstrates that ferocity and intelligence coexist beautifully. All the way down from Glasgow there is a downpour of such ferocity that I fear for my life. They will fight with a ferocity, a determination, and a skill, that will astound us. Never listen to those who warn that ferocity on our part reduces us to the level of the terrorist. Any idea of separating the careers of prosecutor and judge was attacked with ferocity. The students' warning is loud and clear, but it has lost its former ferocity and urgency. This power, we learn, has been asserted with ferocity over the past five decades. And the frequency and ferocity of the current crop of storms is truly terrifying. Back then, his face had been firm and strong and his bright amber eyes had had a ferocity to them that could be intimidating but also very warm. Sandstorms are hardly novel in Beijing, but the sheer ferocity of these tempests was. Asked about why this issue was so close to her heart, the full ferocity of her anger really takes off. Yet we do need some sort of violent metaphor to bring home the length, ferocity and success of the campaign. Columbus records it during his very first voyage as the name of a people whom his informants fear for their ferocity. An example of the ferocity of the fighting was illustrated by the Third Battalion of the 137 th Infantry Regiment. Show More Sentences Instead of looking at the sea, he found himself at the boulevard, his eyes being stung by the intense ferocity and strength of the pounding gust. The Gestapo took these efforts seriously enough to crush them with the utmost ferocity. Notwithstanding his currishness and the cowardly ferocity which comes out with the night, there is something definite about him. Poppa had a glass prod inside the tank, poking at her and recording her ferocity. When threatened, this hognose usually spreads its head and neck, hissing loudly to feign ferocity. He tore into his guitar solos with a ferocity that seemed to forget the previous two years of druggy digressiveness. The choruses consist of some Mark Solomon-like wails, followed by screaming of such ferocity that it is almost disturbing. Those eyes had undergone a change from murky grunge to acid green as he repeated his question with more ferocity. In Medieval Europe, wolves acquired a pungent reputation for trickery and ferocity. From songs neatly woven into the story's fabric to the dances that are performed with athletic ferocity, Minnelli's name is stamped all over it. Slave rebellions were put down with a ferocity which made Peterloo look like a picnic. Her mind rebelled, clinging with stunning primeval ferocity to that deep-rooted fear of losing control. The ferocity of the game helped establish then-fledgling American football as a major sport. The rebels dispersed and by the end of June the revolt had been repressed with ferocity everywhere. The same ferocity with which a young, disadvantaged Motherwell side have fought their corner for much of the league campaign was the game's most compelling feature. The Challenger crew sighted their first iceberg on February 10, 1874, after weathering a storm of such ferocity that the ship was forced to run under treble-reefed topsails. Wolves, bears, and cougars were the massed enemy on the hill, and our stories were of their unbridled ferocity. Even the Mohammedan religion has failed to excite his ferocity. The little child was pudgy, but with puppy fat rather than overeating, and he waved a stick with as much ferocity as he could muster in his right hand. But the face expresses the same deadpan ferocity as the film. Show More Sentences First, he bulldozed French flanker Serge Betsen before forcing his way over the try line with similar ferocity on the hour mark after a period of sustained pressure. The film illustrates this shift in consciousness with a visceral ferocity. I ask if the ferocity of his violent outburst surprised him and he says yes, it did. Townshend led a master's class in aggressive guitar, windmilling power chords, strumming with blitzkrieg ferocity and firing out staccato solos in intensive bursts. Streamlined wheelchairs crash into each other with the ferocity of a demolition derby, and coaches bark orders from the sideline, with their usual bluntness. Eerie and harrowing, the film seethes with barely suppressed ferocity. Perhaps a little too far, as it happens, as the downhill slope was fairly shallow and didn't even come close to hinting at the ferocity of the climb back up to the top. The sheer ferocity of its will would appear to preclude compromise. The fact that the keeper got a touch as the shot flew past him into the corner of the net was immaterial, given the ferocity of the 23-year old's strike. Having conquered New Zealand years ago the army is beginning to lose its elan and ferocity and is drifting into empty formalism and bureaucratisation. Then I set about it with such ferocity that in minutes it lay in pieces. In the 16th century, English mastiffs were famous for their courage and ferocity as war dogs, and were used in Spanish armies both in Europe and America. The ferocity of that effort almost reduced the woodwork to rubble. The largely unreported clashes that ensued were of exceptional ferocity. And he does so not with the wit and winking of the jester, but with the blunt ferocity of the herald. Also, on their honeymoon, Edward breaks the bedframe from the ferocity of boning. The German Panzers fought with suicidal ferocity, storming the hill until it was rimmed with a bulwark of bodies. The day after the bluegills spawned, Neff dangled a container with a pumpkinseed sunfish, which preys on eggs and fry, and scored the ferocity of the dads' defense. That night a wind-storm of unexpected ferocity gathered over the island. The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace. Show More Sentences These towns, overwhelmed by the enemy's numbers and ferocity, called on Rome for help. But are they really tougher? And if so, is there any connection between their manelessness and their ferocity? Their strength and ferocity coincided with the impending trade growth of the maritime silk and spice routes. Historian Mark Knights, argues that by its very ferocity, the debate may have led to more temperate and less hypercharged political discourse. The English lost 1600 men, an unusually high figure for them, far greater than their losses at Agincourt, indicating the ferocity of the fight. Their ferocity impressed the Catti so much, that the wildcat became their symbol. Marko defies dominant depictions of women by replacing the elements of provocation with ferocity and urban trendiness. Phone lines would catch fire from the velocity and ferocity of his words. The Civil War was a contest marked by the ferocity and frequency of battle. These specially trained dogs were feared because of their strength and ferocity. The ferocity of the campaign against the English populace was enough to end all future resistance. The ferocity of the water cascading down the hillside removed the topsoil and revealed the rakes beneath. But this momentary ebullition of feeling is but a storm in a tea-kettle compared to the ferocity of a jealous lover seeking to devour his rival. What is it about the era we live in that means these kind of Twittermobs can emerge with such speed and ferocity? London was startled by a crime of singular ferocity and rendered all the more notable by the high position of the victim. The reputation of ferocity enhanced the value of their services, in making them feared as well as hated. The luxuriant mop is also gone in Sugar-house as Hoodwink is a skinhead, which only adds to his visual ferocity. The final blows were struck with such ferocity that Maccarinelli was knocked unconscious and required oxygen and medical attention before being able to leave the ring. There's actually been a gradual decrease in numbers and ferocity of cyclones and hurricanes over the last few decades, but this is no barrier to the doomsayers. Examples from Classical Literature He combines the ferocity of the tiger, the slyness of the fox, and the shape of a monkey. The two had an air of bristling, hog-backed ferocity, strangely out of keeping with the normal reserve of a man-of-war. Grasping his snider by the tip of the barrel the man looked at his wife with sullen, dulled ferocity. All afternoon she drenched herself with soapsuds in the ferocity of her washing. As he emerged the captain was on his back with all the ferocity of a hyena. The boys had their own beliefs about the different animals, and one of these concerned the inappeasable ferocity of the zebra. The breastplate and the cilice of bristles she took and dashed with feeble ferocity on the floor. A pumpman had picked up a piece of heavy timbering and thrown it at him in mock ferocity. Bartoldus then guesses that it is a bajan, a creature which Camillus has never seen, but of whose ferocity he has heard. This incautious speech by no means tended to appease the ferocity of the crowd. His only virtues were courage and patience, but they were counterbalanced by a tameless ferocity. Their prowess was equal to their ferocity, and this was enough to make them seem endowed with preterhuman powers. Sucking at a crack of light the red setter's kindled nose glowed and snorted with dragonlike ferocity. And camphire has been frequently found serviceable in excessive ferocity and want of sleep. The sounds of indignation and ferocity that followed this statement are not translatable. The one producing a temper of hardness and ferocity, the other of softness and effeminacy, I replied. Far from evincing any ferocity towards his master's foes, he danced about with a joyous bark, evidently considering it famous fun. All ferocity must be misinterpretation of the divine law of harmony and mutual help. He can not compete with carnivores in strength and ferocity, nor with herbivores in fleetness. The struggle was deadly, but the numbers and ferocity of the pirates prevailed. Show More Sentences Valeria found her indifferent callousness more repugnant than Olmec's naked ferocity. Their ferocity, as well as their voracity, surpasses anything that can be imagined. On no other hypothesis can we account for the ferocity with which Johnson turned and rended him. Sime, following him, his neuro hissing death from side to side, marveled at his ferocity. The horror of the struggle, filled with the dead and dying, far surpassed in ferocity any representation of the newsreel. He restrained the ferocity of Nero and checked the ambition and vengefulness of Agrippina. She adored courage, and had always cherished a belief that Bismarck's sharklike jaws implied the possession of latent ferocity. I have seen a good deal of ferocity and savagism, and it was not at all confined to people acknowledged to be barbarians. Despite its ferocity, fulguration is ineffective in pooled blood due to its highly conductive nature. They have the ferocity of a bulldog and the venom of the Egyptian asp. Haynes' bass drum pulsed with the ferocity of a summer rainstorm hitting a metal roof or a nervous soldier emptying a machine gun. There had been no abatement in the ferocity of the tempest, nor was there indication of any. He thumps his chest in anger, and roars and quivers with cataleptic ferocity. Strickland had the directness of the fanatic and the ferocity of the apostle. A wild cry of exultation arose from the Heliumite squadron, and with redoubled ferocity they fell upon the Zodangan fleet. We had confidence in cypher's sullenness and smouldering ferocity. He was scowling at me in an instant with all his old ferocity. There ensued a battle royal which for sustained and frightful ferocity transcends the power of imagination or description. With all his cruel ferocity and coldness there was an undercurrent of something in Tars Tarkas which he seemed ever battling to subdue. With a roar that was almost lionlike in its ferocity, he again hurled himself at the man. Show More Sentences They have the ferocity of a chained dog, and are proud of it. But her eyes remained very keen, sharpened as it were by ferocity. The agency said the captain was aware of the storm in The Minch but still made the crossing despite being unprepared for its ferocity. As the stringency increased, the attack on the clergy gained in ferocity. The name may, perhaps, have been given to denote the peculiar ferocity of this clan, and to convey a special stigma along with it. The strength, agility, and blind ferocity of these two creatures is approached by nothing known to earthly man. She turned on me with what I can only describe as tigrish ferocity. Only if a thing fled did the mantis pursue with deadly ferocity. Otrepiev was shaken by the tsar's manner, by the ferocity of his mien. He was perhaps unlucky in serving in the Guards, who attacked with ferocity and manoeuvred unskilfully. Thousands of peaceful natives were treated with unjustifiable ferocity. He of the black coat tremendously outclassed his adversary in point of size and strength as well as in ferocity. And the storm raged at intervals with all the ferocity of unspent passion. She was the star turn, relishing this vocally fearsome role and emphasizing the tigerish ferocity which made her a memorable WNO Tosca. The ocelot is next only to the jaguar in ferocity and daring. Don't you know the devilry of lingering starvation, its exasperating torment, its black thoughts, its somber and brooding ferocity? Those of the little band who escaped fled in consternation to the camp, and spread direful reports of the force and ferocity of the enemy. It was an ominous sound, with something of wolfish ferocity in it. It was a rough-coated beast, showing its fangs with a wolflike ferocity. He knew of the brutal ferocity of which that peasantry was capable. Show More Sentences From beneath their broad-brimmed hats of palm-leaf, gleamed eyes which, even in good-nature and merriment, had a kind of animal ferocity. He rushed among them with all the force and ferocity of a bull elephant gone mad. As described by Sola, this monster was the exaggerated personification of all the ages of cruelty, ferocity, and brutality from which he had descended. That it is a beautiful animal there is no gainsaying, but if its size and colors are magnified here within Pellucidar, so is the ferocity of its disposition. They advocated government ownership of such trusts as the railroads and telegraphs, and excessive income taxes, graduated with ferocity, to destroy large accumulations. So White Fang could only eat his heart in bitterness and develop a hatred and malice commensurate with the ferocity and indomitability of his nature. However, the Delhi rape case has been discussed not only inside India but internationally because of its brutality, diabolism, cruelty, shamelessness and ferocity. None was more stealthy in the mimic hunt, none more ferocious than he in the wild ferocity of the attack, none who leaped so high into the air in the Dance of Death. He was, with a young man's squeamishness, rather sick of her ferocity. In time of actual warfare they form a part of the reserves, and when the necessity arises fight with even greater intelligence and ferocity than the men. The gigantic stature, the prodigious strength and activity, the wild ferocity, and the imitative propensities of these mammalia are sufficiently well known to all. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of ferocity? Words that rhyme with ferocity What is the plural of ferocity? What is the adverb for ferocity? What is the adjective for ferocity? What is the noun for ferocity? Translations for ferocity Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words ferociousness ferociously ferocious ferny ferns fernlike ferox ferragamo Ferrara ferrari Ferrari ferraro 8-letter Words Starting With f fe fer fero feroc feroci ferocit