Example sentences for: ferocious

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

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

  • Malone's reputation as "the Darth Vader of cable" and "a guy who knows how to run over people" spoke to his ferocious ability as a negotiator and deal-maker.

  • 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.

  • He was also a three-sport star and "the most ferocious competitor I've ever seen," his coach says today.

  • 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.


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