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How to use infuriate in a sentence

23 example sentences · verb, adjective

Infuriate means to make furious or mad with anger; to fill with fury. Example: “Infuriated by his adoption yesterday, the chess master has resolved to study twice as long and twice as hard.”

Examples of infuriate by meaning

verbTo make furious or mad with anger; to fill with fury.

  • I was still revolted by their accents and infuriated by their habitual rudeness.1937, George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier, Penguin, published 1962, Part 2, Chapter 9, p. 131
  • US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has left Taiwan after a one-day visit that has infuriated China.2022 August 3, Zaheena Rasheed, “Pelosi in Taiwan live news: Tsai slams ‘unnecessary’ China drills”, in Al Jazeera, archived from the...

adjectiveFilled with, characterized by or expressing fury.

  • With an infuriate scream the dead awakened.1929, Thomas Wolfe, chapter 20, in Look Homeward, Angel, New York: Modern Library, page 280
  • He looked at his wife’s body with suspicion and his own with infuriate guilt.1951, William Styron, chapter 2, in Lie Down in Darkness, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, page 51

More sentences with infuriate

  • Infuriated by his adoption yesterday, the chess master has resolved to study twice as long and twice as hard.From the entry adoption
  • Not the infuriated creature who had nearly killed a werewolf in his prime.2020 March 31, MaryJanice Davidson, “Chapter 3”, in Bears Behaving Badly, volume 1, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN. From the entry werehare
  • Slash infuriates actors even when it focuses only on fictional characters."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
  • His assertion infuriates my mother, who denies Cymry's freakhood and calls her a gift from God.2003, Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas. From the entry freakhood
  • She kept right on reading, and for some reason this infuriated the father.1988, Roald Dahl, “The Ghost”, in Matilda, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN; republished as “The Ghost”, in Matilda, New York, N.Y.: Puffin…. From the entry box
  • For this you apparently needed three kiwi fruits, but the idea infuriated him.1969 May 10, Cleveland Amory, “Review: The Galloping Gourmet”, in Merrill Panitt, editor, TV Guide, volume 17, number 19 (841 overall)…. From the entry kiwi fruit
  • He was infuriated, and wrote forthwith a challenge to Daniel scrawled on a newspaper headsheet.1934, Hervey Allen, Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe, page 614. From the entry headsheet
  • Kennedy — stunned and infuriated the activists.2026 February 20, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Hiroko Tabuchi, “MAHA Moms Turn Against Trump: ‘Women Feel Like They Were Lied To’”, in The New…. From the entry glyphosate
  • It's the injustice of the whole thing that infuriates me.2014, Daniel P Mannix, Freaks: We Who Are Not As Others, eNet Press, →ISBN, page 139. From the entry thin as a yard of pump water
  • Consulate, who infuriated him with arch and Delphic answers.1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 18. From the entry delphic
  • "I can't see that it will make any difference in the long run whether I infuriate him or not.1920, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan the Untamed. From the entry deader
  • Even their "soft tones" infuriated Bogan: "Stop the mad dogs of Fascism," these young communists mildly offered, "help our boys dodging Franco's bombs."2009, Alan Filreis, Counter-revolution of the Word, →ISBN. From the entry mad dog
  • Breezy, confident and ultracompetent, Rajiv serves as a maddening counterfoil to his struggling younger brother, whose waffling and zigzag career path infuriates their father.2008 January 11, William Grimes, “A Physician Caught Trying to Heal Himself”, in New York Times. From the entry ultracompetent
  • Possibly the light would infuriate it.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)…. From the entry manlike
  • Late last year, Chinese e-commerce giant JD faced a boycott by customers infuriated by its casting of trailblazing woman comedian Yang Li in a promotional live stream.2025 July 26, Chris Lau and Joyce Jiang, “Joking about her abusive husband launched this Chinese comedian to stardom. The authorities…. From the entry diktat
  • A new book defending vaccines, written by a doctor infuriated at the claim that they cause autism, is galvanizing a backlash against the antivaccine movement in the United States.2009 January 13, Donald G. Mcneil Jr., “Book Is Rallying Resistance to the Antivaccine Crusade”, in The New York Times, archived from the…. From the entry antivaccine
  • The remark stung Cattaraugus to the quick, and he called Catiline a catapult; this infuriated Catiline beyond endurance, and he threw down the gauntlet and called Cattaraugus a catso.1992 [1880], Mark Twain, “A Cat-Tale”, in Louis Budd, editor, Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays. From the entry catso
  • This humiliating capitulation of the young republic to the Germans was forced through by Lenin despite the infuriated opposition of his own party and nearly the whole of Russia.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford…. From the entry capitulation
  • The Eagle quotes Professor Shapiro as being “infuriated by Reagonomics.” Would he be less infuriated by Trumanomics or Johnsonomics, with another nice little war to drive the suicide rate down?1982 November 2, John S. Kebabian, “Statistics on suicide”, in The Berkshire Eagle, volume 90, number 149, Pittsfield, Mass., page 8…. From the entry Johnsonomics

Meaning of infuriate

  1. verb To make furious or mad with anger; to fill with fury.
  2. adjective Filled with, characterized by or expressing fury.

Full definition of infuriate

Questions about infuriate in a sentence

How do you use infuriate in a sentence?
Infuriate is used as a verb and adjective. For example: “Infuriated by his adoption yesterday, the chess master has resolved to study twice as long and twice as hard.”
What is a short sentence with infuriate?
“Possibly the light would infuriate it.”
What does infuriate mean?
Infuriate means to make furious or mad with anger; to fill with fury.

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