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How to use enrage in a sentence

22 example sentences · verb

Enrage means to become angry or wild. Example: “He was so enraged that he screamed lividly for fifteen minutes.”

More sentences with enrage

  • He was so enraged that he screamed lividly for fifteen minutes.From the entry lividly
  • Supported by an enraged and desperate public, this new alliance set out to achieve two goals.From the entry enraged
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:enraged.From the entry enraged
  • His hebetudinous lack of curiosity enraged the instructor.From the entry hebetudinous
  • Blackenwood grew enraged and shouted, “I am not a common tree nymph”.2015 December 27, R. J. Confiant, “Chapter 9 Loren”, in The Crux: Lendaw Series:, Book 1, volume 1, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN. From the entry treent
  • Indians who were enraged and dumbfounded at the Spaniards' barbarity, heathenhood, and moral shipwreck.2002, Reinaldo Arenas, Hallucinations. From the entry heathenhood
  • This further enraged the mother-in-law who reprimanded the girl for answering back to elders.1990, K. D. Gangrade, Rameshwar Prasad Misra, Conflict Resolution Through Non-violence: Development without destruction, Concept…. From the entry answer back
  • It was standard diplo-speak, but it enraged Miami's ultrarightists.2016, Reese Erlich, Stephen Kinzer, Dateline Havana. From the entry ultrarightist
  • Most enraging to the peasants was the tax he forcibly levied on irrigation water from the Mansŏk-po reservoir .2012, Jinwung Kim, A History of Korea, page 301. From the entry enraging
  • An old term for the bull etc., enraged, or furiosant.2009 06, Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry, Genealogical Publishing Com, →ISBN, page 107. From the entry furiosant
  • Men had been known to quit work here, claiming that the Tatzelwurms were becoming enraged by all the drilling and explosions.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 736. From the entry Tatzelwurm
  • Any plan to unpick the carefully constructed compromise to keep the Irish border free of checkpoints will enrage other European governments, especially Dublin’s.2020 September 7, Martin Farrer, “Monday briefing: Johnson plans to unpick Brexit treaty”, in The Guardian. From the entry unpick
  • In a move clearly designed to stoke the fires of Ford Nation and enrage left-leaning councillors, Ford came out swinging at left-leaning special interest groups.2012 June 1, Don Peat, “Ford vows to march on”, in Toronto Sun, Canada, retrieved 08 Aug 2014. From the entry Ford Nation
  • An early article on Slate, otherwise sympathetic to slash fiction, declared that "actorfic" violated fanfic's basic principle of being fantasy: "Writers risk enraging straight actors.2007, Kristin Thompson, The Frodo Franchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 179. From the entry actorfic
  • Her predecessors, Stephen Tumim and David Ramsbotham, pillars of establishment bufferdom with impeccable social consciences, had enraged the Home Secretaries to whom they reported.2002 August 5, Mary Riddell, The New Statesman. From the entry bufferdom
  • Enraged at the number of non-seniors occupying this prized space, a group of these graduating seniors decided to form a Senior Patrol.1978 October 18, Steve Kaufman, “Ramblings”, in J[ohn] Hart Clinton, editor, The Post, North County edition, volume 32, number 42, San…. From the entry watchperson
  • On another occasion, a Quislingist became enraged at the size of a collection taken up in one of the churches served by a loyal clergyman.1943, The Link - Volume 1, Issues 1-8, page 35. From the entry quislingist
  • However enraged I might be at the new revelation of Addicks' extraordinary veniality, the other elements in the situation remained as before.1905, Thomas W. Lawson, Frenzied Finance. From the entry veniality
  • He perceived three French Gentlemen, who alone, with an incredible and undaunted boldnesse, gainstood the enraged violence, and made head against the furie of his victorious armie., Folio Society, 2006, p.5. From the entry gainstand
  • Also in November, in Wanrong County, Shanxi Province, in central China, two policemen were killed when enraged construction workers attacked a police station after a traffic dispute.2004 December 31, Joseph Kahn, “China's 'Haves' Stir the 'Have Nots' to Violence”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry Wanrong
  • And all the while that this agonized questioning went on within him, he talked flippantly to Conrad, enraging the cross-grained doorkeeper to the point of homicidal mania.1922, Agatha Christie, “Chapter 16”, in The Secret Adversary. From the entry cross-grained
  • Hundreds of enraged parents whose children were killed in a flash flood in Heilongjiang province blocked the main roads of Ningan city yesterday, demanding a full investigation into the tragedy.[2005 June 13, Shi Jiangtao, “200 pupils dead in flooding, parents claim”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry Ning'an

Meaning of enrage

  1. verb To become angry or wild.
  2. verb To fill with rage; to outrage; to provoke to frenzy; to make furious.
  3. verb To provoke to madness, to make insane.

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Questions about enrage in a sentence

How do you use enrage in a sentence?
Enrage is used as a verb. For example: “He was so enraged that he screamed lividly for fifteen minutes.”
What is a short sentence with enrage?
“For quotations using this term, see Citations:enraged.”
What does enrage mean?
Enrage means to become angry or wild.

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