Example sentences for: ferocity

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

  • They had wandered a long way from their home east of the Ural Mountains, and fell upon the land with such ferocity that the local people thought they too were Huns (one might be tempted to think this is the origin of the English Hungary).

  • If, say, his Medicare numbers don't add up, expect him to be roasted for it with a ferocity explicable only by reporters' frustration over what they perceive as the Big Lie about sex.

  • 2, 2001 (in which Nashiri is described as widely known to be one of al Qaeda's most committed terrorists and, according to one of his mujahideen colleagues, so extreme in his ferocity in waging jihad that he "would commit a terrorist act 'in Mecca inside the Ka'aba itself ' [the holiest site in Islam] if he believed there was a need to do so").

  • The ferocity of later Cretan resistance against the Turks had all the trademarks of their fiercely independent spirit.

  • Yet New York state senators and legislators privately admit they assented to the legislation because they were impressed with the ferocity of the support for the bill.


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