ferocious

How To Use ferocious In A Sentence

• Its heroes were beastly revellers or cruel and ferocious plunderers; its heroines unsexed hoidens, playing the ugliest tricks with their lovers, and repaying slights with bloody revenge, -- very dangerous and unsatisfactory companions for any other than the fire - eating Vikings and redhanded, unwashed Berserkers. The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism
• No whimper, nor sound, nor sign of fear, came from Jerry — only choking growls of ferociousness, intermingled with snarls of anger, and a belligerent up-clawing of hind-legs. CHAPTER XVI
• The ferocious battle for good schools and good universities is so expensive and emotionally draining that no parent would want to endure it twice. Times, Sunday Times
• He is also tall, good-looking and ferociously lucky. Times, Sunday Times
• Sustained rain and ferocious winds caused severe weather conditions across Cumbria overnight on Friday, some of the worst the region has seen for decades.
• The Democrat convention has set the scene for a ferocious election campaign this autumn.
• She looked less ferocious and was actually smiling brightly at us.
• For a while now a ferocious battle has been going on for the soul of our bit of London. Times, Sunday Times
• They tackle ferociously, hit the rucks hard and pass beautifully. Times, Sunday Times
• They simply ripped them limb from limb in the second half with a ferociously determined and hungry display which left Cork begging for mercy.