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How to use seething in a sentence

15 example sentences · adjective, noun

Seething means filled with unexpressed anger; in a state of being livid. Example: “I struggle to put to words the seething, undying hatred that I feel for you.”

Examples of seething by meaning

adjectiveIn a state of extreme volatility; about to boil over; boiling, bubbling.

  • There Grendel was watching his blood flow out into the seething tarn.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 31

More sentences with seething

  • I struggle to put to words the seething, undying hatred that I feel for you.From the entry put to words
  • Those tapestries were like a zoological garden, seething with slaters and clipshears.2017, Catriona McPherson, Dandy Gilver and a Spot of Toil and Trouble, →ISBN. From the entry clipshear
  • The little man was seething and shaking, near collapse with fear and anger.2012, Carol Berg, The Daemon Prism: A Novel of the Collegia Magica, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry witch
  • In this seething cauldron of drastic change, what of the historical society?1961, The Iowa Journal of History (State Historical Society of Iowa), volume 59, issues 1–2, page 123. From the entry égalitarianism
  • Half the House itself was seething with indignation against the Government.1913 December 13, “The Scandal in Alsace. Indignation of the Reichstag.”, in The North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette…. From the entry chancellor
  • Celtic Park was a loud, seething pit of bias.2014 November 18, Daniel Taylor, “England and Wayne Rooney see off Scotland in their own back yard”, in The Guardian. From the entry din
  • The “wriggling and wraggling” of the fish in their mother's guts evokes the seething waters that expelled Pilate's body.2014, James Al-Shamma, Sarah Ruhl: A Critical Study of the Plays, page 124. From the entry wraggle
  • Wimbush, then let them fall on to the seething mass of élan vital that fermented in the sty.1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter 5, in Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus, page 40. From the entry élan vital
  • The day will come when Esau's seething will dissipate, and the scenario with Jacob and Esau will become only part of Esau's distant past.1995 September 26, Victor P. Hamilton, The Book of Genesis, Chapters 18-50, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, →ISBN, page 89. From the entry time heals all hurts
  • I sat there seething with fury.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter X, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC. From the entry stinker
  • Oh, they seem to be the picture of contentment, tripping about with their triple-sanitized trowels and weeding forks, but in reality these neatniks are a seething cauldron of aversions.2006, Des Kennedy, The Passionate Gardener: Adventures of an Ardent Green Thumb, Greystone Books, →ISBN, page 208. From the entry blennophobia
  • Elixation is the seething of meat in the stomach, by the said natural heat, as meat s boiled in a pot; to which corruption or putrefaction is opposite., Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.156. From the entry elixation
  • One of the earliest of all the silent screen stars, Norma Talmadge played the serene, madonnalike beauty with unseen fires seething within—a sort of pre-World War I Grace Kelly.1956 January 23, “Film Pioneers’ Roll of Their Living Immortals”, in Life, volume 40, number 4, page 120. From the entry madonnalike
  • Among the younger men who were winning fame—with the surge and thunder that heralded the youth of the nineties—was Rudyard Kipling; the seething brain of H.1921, Stephen McKenna, chapter II, in While I Remember. From the entry scientific romance

Meaning of seething

  1. adjective Filled with unexpressed anger; in a state of being livid.
  2. adjective In a state of extreme volatility; about to boil over; boiling, bubbling.
  3. adjective In a state of unceasing and furious activity.

Full definition of seething

Questions about seething in a sentence

How do you use seething in a sentence?
Seething is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “I struggle to put to words the seething, undying hatred that I feel for you.”
What is a short sentence with seething?
“I sat there seething with fury.”
What does seething mean?
Seething means filled with unexpressed anger; in a state of being livid.

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