How to Use ferocious in a Sentence

ferocious

adjective
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  • Her Tashi is all length — long arms, long legs, long braid — with a ferocious little chin set in anger.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2024
  • But even still there’s a part of me that’s a ferocious defender, who wants to correct the record piece by piece.
    — Sophia Bush, Glamour, 25 Apr. 2024
  • This April, the biggest show in town just might be two ferocious birds hatching eggs on a big screen in Berkeley.
    — John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2024
  • In the 1970s, the tree was struck by lightning at least three times during a ferocious thunderstorm.
    — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2024
  • Of course, the action and fights are ferocious, especially one scene involving handcuffs.
    — Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Image Yet the city has lived through heavy assault before and its inhabitants put up a ferocious resistance.
    — Oleksandr Chubko, New York Times, 6 June 2024
  • Continued border incursions flared into a ferocious clash in 2020 that threatened to lead to all-out war.
    — Sameer Yasir, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2024
  • But by the time the 28-minute overture concluded, the sextet had been as ferocious as a pack of bloodthirsty velociraptors, and majestic as a pack of gliding pterodactyls.
    — Journal Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2024
  • And Thomas was ferocious with wanting to train all the time.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 15 June 2023
  • It was designed to withstand the ferocious storms that blow through the area, and a portcullis at the front door keeps the sheep out of the house.
    — Mark David, Robb Report, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The build takes what was already a ferocious coupé and adds even more power to the mix.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 18 July 2023
  • At least 17 people have died in wave of ferocious storms that have rolled across the state in the last two weeks.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The arms move, the head rotates, and a button on the back of the figure activates the ferocious chomp.
    — Maya Polton, Parents, 7 Nov. 2023
  • North of the border, it's been a ferocious Spring for wildfires.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 3 June 2023
  • The event was triggered by a ferocious storm, but the tempest wasn’t of Earth’s making.
    — Katherine Kornei, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Her ferocious Scrabble game comes with a set of Rose’s Rules.
    — Celia McGee, New York Times, 12 June 2023
  • The odd wounds are the hallmark of a small attacker with a ferocious bite: the cookie cutter shark.
    — Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 26 July 2023
  • During May and June, which is prime safari time, the nights are cold and the air is often cool during the day, but the sun is ferocious.
    — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The 22-year-old forward, fresh off a ferocious club season, is the hottest scoring threat on the team aiming to win a third World Cup in a row.
    — Rachel Bachman, WSJ, 20 July 2023
  • To the west, the paper reported, the waters of the breach devour the sandy beachfront underneath the home with ferocious speed.
    — Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Feb. 2023
  • And those who have worked with Ramsey—and adored her—are ferocious in their protection of this choice.
    — ELLE, 16 Jan. 2023
  • The engine is a ferocious beast chock full of character.
    — David Beard, Car and Driver, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The bottom line From the AI wars to the streaming wars, the tussle in tech is more ferocious and competitive than it’s been in years.
    — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
  • So far the most ferocious blast on record, which occurred in 1859, simply messed with telegraph wires.
    — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 16 Feb. 2023
  • But the video captures a different side of the ferocious hunter — that of a patient angler.
    — Mitchell Willetts, Kansas City Star, 22 May 2024
  • But hundreds of ferocious wildfires were still raging in Canada, meaning that more smoke could waft across the U.S. in the days to come.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 9 June 2023
  • Now, a new threat is set to bring ferocious winds and devastating rains to Auckland and the North Island.
    — Taylor Ward, CNN, 10 Feb. 2023
  • It's engaged in a ferocious battle right now along the eastern and southern fronts.
    — Rachel Scott, ABC News, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Some of the largest and most ferocious dinosaurs of all time had an anatomical secret to their success.
    — Riley Black, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2023
  • There are three resolutions to it: Biden steps aside (potentially starting a new, more ferocious fight), Democrats fall back in line behind him, or Election Day arrives.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 8 July 2024

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