Example sentences for: ferocious

How can you use “ferocious” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • They were ferocious Cold Warriors, but they favored military action only to defeat the communist menace, not for any greater moral purpose.

  • The popular portrayal of bloated plutocrats has changed enormously in the last 150 years, devolving from the 19 th century's ferocious robber barons, to that guy on the Monopoly box who was always chasing his secretary around his desk in New Yorker cartoons, to the addled and ineffectual potbellies of Depression-era screwball comedy.

  • It's the handiwork of the Shuar, a notoriously ferocious tribe that inhabits the forests of Ecuador and Peru.

  • The building collapsed into itself, causing a ferocious windstorm and creating a massive debris cloud.

  • On the east coast are beaches of fine black or red sand — another legacy of the volcanic activity — which heat to a ferocious temperature in the summer sun.


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