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How to use fury in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Fury means extreme anger. Example: “She tore her ex-boyfriend’s clothes apart in fury.”

Examples of fury by meaning

nounExtreme anger.

  • The building of the railway in this notable beauty spot roused the great Victorian writer John Ruskin to fury.1960 March, J. P. Wilson, E. N. C. Haywood, “The route through the Peak - Derby to Manchester: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 155

More sentences with fury

  • She tore her ex-boyfriend’s clothes apart in fury.From the entry tear apart
  • Her announcement was quite a surprise, coming a month after she published the words "I hate weddings with a passion and a fury I can only partially explain rationally."From the entry wedding
  • Breach hit a line, Zoe Harrison dabbed a kick in behind and Abby Dow chased like fury.2025 August 22, Mike Henson, “England open World Cup with 11-try win over USA”, in BBC Sport. From the entry dab
  • In the meantime, Tichborne worked himself into a fury about Bahama grass.2023, Zadie Smith, The Fraud, Hamish Hamilton, page 299. From the entry Bahama grass
  • But be warned: the full, hellish fury of the pyrocene has yet to arrive.2021 August 28, Graham Lawton, “The dawn of the pyrocene”, in New Scientist, page 24. From the entry Pyrocene
  • McGahn described the president’s fury toward the Russia investigation and the ways in which he urged Mr.2018 August 18, Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman, “White House Counsel, Don McGahn, Has Cooperated Extensively in Mueller Inquiry”…. From the entry investigation
  • So fish fury all round, as there has been in the past.2018 March 20, “Fish fury flares over Brussels Brexit deal”, in ITV. From the entry alliteration
  • They will continue until, as Shakespeare put it, they “consume the thing that feeds their fury.”[2016 May 16, Stephen J. Pyne, “Welcome to the Pyrocene”, in Slate, →ISSN. From the entry Pyrocene
  • Melody's velvet gray eyes were transformed instantly into boiling little infernos of fury.2011, Anne Barbour, Escapades. From the entry Haymarket ware
  • The songs built slowly with anger, ache, tearfulness and fury, with sustained notes and cascading melismas.2008 March 29, Jon Pareles, “Hip-Hop Assurance, R&B Suffering”, in New York Times. From the entry tearfulness
  • Fury at plan to site homeless hostel near top Capital school.2006, The Scotsman (15 Dec 06). From the entry site
  • Shadowy masked dominatrixes in stiletto-heeled hip boots snap commands and whips with equal fury.2003, Lora Shaner, Madam: Inside a Nevada Brothel, page 296. From the entry dominatrix
  • He churned the emptiness of my stomach, and stirred the fury of my famishment.1991, Ben Okri, The Famished Road, New York: Nan A. Talese, published 1992, Section 1, Book 5, Chapter 2, p. 329. From the entry famishment
  • I was like that, not in a state of fury but of sadness, when your letter arrived.1983, Robert de Montesquiou, translated by Terence Kilmartin, “From Robert de Montesquiou, around 8 July 1915”, in Philip Kolb, editor…. From the entry chagrin
  • Dolores flitted around the car, screaming like a banshee, her face bedizened with fury.1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 31, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →LCCN, page 240. From the entry bedizen
  • “You lousy, fornicating pimp!” he said, his voice shaking with fury.1958, A.G. Yates, The Cold Dark Hours, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 202. From the entry fornicating
  • And embittered Winter, fury consumed By thoughts of Spring's nighsome 'proach, can compass.1922, Charles Edwin Hewes, Songs of the Rockies. From the entry nighsome
  • The punishment was egregious, and Fulvet had commuted it, but the skiffers had been whipped into a fury.2021 December 7, M. A. Carrick, The Liar's Knot, Orbit, →ISBN. From the entry skiffer
  • Even more so than religion, even rational skeptical apistevists can suddenly become blindsided by the passionate fury of politics.2018 October 30, Oxyaena, “OT-ish: A Thought Experiment”, in talk.origins (Usenet). From the entry apistevist
  • Fuelled by their fury, Spurs surged forward and gave themselves hope after 56 minutes when Scott Parker's precise through-ball released Adebayor.2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 30 Mar 2022. From the entry continue
  • It's all sound and fury, signifying naught; but you've got a scooby that there's more to this than reaches the eye.2011, Charles Stross, Rule 34, →ISBN. From the entry scooby
  • Chess clambered to his feet, feeling power surge along nerves and muscles, electrifying and painful with his fury.2010, Gemma Files, edited by Sandra Kasturi, A Book of Tongues (The Hexslinger Series; 1), Toronto, Ont.: ChiZine Publications, →ISBN. From the entry inflood
  • Antapologies come in two flavors: gracious acceptance and self-righteous fury.2008, Ammon Shea, Reading the OED, New York, N.Y.: Perigee Books, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry antapology
  • When he heard that Devaki was pregnant again, for the seventh time, he tore his hair in fury.2005, Shanta Rameshwar Rao, Krishna. From the entry tear one's hair
  • You could see the giant's scorn and fury dim down all at once, as if it were on a rheostat.2004, Tom Wolfe, “The Tailgaters”, in I am Charlotte Simmons, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 312. From the entry rheostat
  • Fury at men, conspicuously, and also at themselves, which is why she has been called both feminist and antifeminist.2003 June 4, Richard Eder, “BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Writing Off a Past to Write Freely of a Future”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry far-fetchedly
  • Otherwise I use fury as my normal attack.2001, Edward Glamkowski, alt.games.diablo2 (Usenet). From the entry pwn
  • I augurise lots of sound and fury.1976, The New Review - Volume 3, Issues 25-30, page 69. From the entry augurise
  • A long line of lighted windows flashed past, and then, in decrescendo, the sound and fury passed northwards.1954 January, H. P. White, “Vignettes of the Rail”, in Railway Magazine, page 53. From the entry decrescendo
  • The look of hurt fury which she hurled at the Bishop's back might have singed his clerical broadcloth.1942, Emily Carr, “The Bishop and the Canary”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC. From the entry broadcloth
  • Big Paddy nursed his grief in a quiet, mad fury.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 26. From the entry old man
  • The eyes in the cadaverous face blazed fiendishly at me and I blanched from the concentrated satanic fury in them.1929 October–December, Robert E[rvin] Howard, “Skull-Face”, in Weird Tales, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Pub. Co., →OCLC…. From the entry fiendishly
  • The woman had slipped to the very edge of the rock—the edge that lipped the fury of the Pit.1924, James Oliver Curwood, chapter 3, in A Gentleman of Courage, New York: Cosmopolitan, page 36. From the entry lip
  • Restrain also the keen fury of my heart which provokes me to tread the ways of blood-curdling strife.1914, Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Hesiod, the Homeric hymns and Homerica, London: W. Heineman, page 435. From the entry blood-curdling
  • As we all know, Harry’s gravamen, the nub of his incandescent fury, is how he and Meghan were sold out by the institution.2023 January 17, Tina Brown, “Spare by Prince Harry review – magical thinking in Montecito”, in The Guardian. From the entry gravamen
  • Just like with Parkland, the anguish in Uvalde was compounded by fury after claims of officers failing to immediately stop the gunman.2023 February 14, Holly Yan, “5 years after the Parkland school massacre claimed 17 lives, here’s what has changed (and what hasn’t)”, in…. From the entry Uvalde
  • He was perched up top attending to the roof lantern when he was stuck down (literally) by a storm of "preposterous fury" (Bizarre Berkshire, D.2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Reading (1840)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 56. From the entry strike down
  • Meanwhile, during ‘Verdanagate’, unbridled fury was unleashed after furniture store Ikea made what it thought was an innocuous switch from Futura to Verdana.2013 April 30, Etan Smallman, “To Helvetica and back: Our love/hate relationship with typefaces”, in Metro, archived from the original on…. From the entry Verdanagate
  • This post examines an element potentially even more frightening—partly because of its nukelike fury, partly because it might be perfectly legal to stockpile this weapon.2010 July 28, Sam Kean, “Hafnium: Building the Doomsday Device of Tomorrow”, in Slate. From the entry nukelike

Meaning of fury

  1. noun Extreme anger.
  2. noun Strength or violence in action.
  3. noun An angry or malignant person.

Full definition of fury

Questions about fury in a sentence

How do you use fury in a sentence?
Fury is used as a noun. For example: “She tore her ex-boyfriend’s clothes apart in fury.”
What is a short sentence with fury?
“I augurise lots of sound and fury.”
What does fury mean?
Fury means extreme anger.

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