How To Use Ferocity In A Sentence

An album that finally demonstrates that ferocity and intelligence coexist beautifully.
Large packs of black matted mastiffs prowl the streets for scraps, occasionally breaking into fights of heart-stopping ferocity.
In the 16th century, English mastiffs were famous for their courage and ferocity as war dogs, and were used in Spanish armies both in Europe and America.
It is this ferocity that is often unacknowledged or suppressed. Times, Sunday Times
I also recall the ferocity of the werewolf, and his insatiable hatred for humankind while in that form. Red dust

It feeds on aphids with a single-minded ferocity. Times, Sunday Times
In a place known as Nine Dragons, as the city's Hungry Ghosts festival burns around him, Bosch puts aside everything he knows and risks everything he has in a desperate bid to outmatch the triad's ferocity. Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly: Book summary
And the frequency and ferocity of the current crop of storms is truly terrifying.
The American replied in a similar playful ferocity — the two warriors made a little tournament for us there on the plains before Jaffa, in the which diachylon, being a little worsted, challenged his adversary to a race, and fled away on his grey, the Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
The temperature often topped 50 degrees celsius and the hot thermal winds blew with unbelievable ferocity.
The lion attacked its victim with great ferocity.
Today for most they are a faded memory; yet at the time, the battle was bloody and fought with great ferocity.
The destructive ferocity of nature is remote from the lives of most people in Britain. Times, Sunday Times
He tore into his guitar solos with a ferocity that seemed to forget the previous two years of druggy digressiveness.
Sure enough, the first dog pinned us into a corner with the sheer ferocity of its demeanour. THE DOG LISTENER: Learning the Language of your Best Friend
Competitive ferocity and a capacity to be philosophical must coexist in the nature of the jump jockey. Times, Sunday Times
The rebels dispersed and by the end of June the revolt had been repressed with ferocity everywhere.
Then I set about it with such ferocity that in minutes it lay in pieces.
So White Fang could only eat his heart in bitterness and develop a hatred and malice commensurate with the ferocity and indomitability of his nature. The Enemy of His Kind
Eerie and harrowing, the film seethes with barely suppressed ferocity.
The sheer ferocity of its will would appear to preclude compromise.
`He's Ferocity's younger brother, you know, and they say she used him as a sort of sparring partner when both of them were fledglings. THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
Sandstorms are hardly novel in Beijing, but the sheer ferocity of these tempests was.
Poppa had a glass prod inside the tank, poking at her and recording her ferocity.
The next two buttons only increased the ferocity of the jet. Times, Sunday Times
/"You can't handle the truth!" ferocity about – hold on to your hats, readers, this one's a gripper! How evil is Facebook?
At the far northern end of the beach we come across a dead fulmar and marvel at the size and ferocity of its beak. Wildwood
When Shylock is baptized, it's done in a pool of water in the middle of the stage and the baptizer thrusts his head under with ferocity, practically drowning the man in the process. Michael Giltz: Theater: Al Pacino in Subtle Merchant Of Venice; An Obvious Elf and More
The mercury is rising, the glaciers are melting and the hurricanes are hurtling towards the Americas with increasing ferocity. Times, Sunday Times
His crucial test will be the ferocity of his assault on spending.
That," he said, with a kind of leashed and restrained ferocity in his voice, "is Major P.tnam P. Stone -- and the P.stands for P.st, which is his middle name -- late of the Southern Confederacy. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights
an act of ruthless ferocity
Yet we do need some sort of violent metaphor to bring home the length, ferocity and success of the campaign.
Take the colorful effusiveness of Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen and the ferocity of the late Yankee skipper Billy Martin, and you begin to get a picture.
A double-page album conveys all the panic, speed, ferocity, movement and verve of the hunt.
Tarot Sport side of the boat, 'Surf Solar' and 'Olympians' harder and woozier than on the record, 'Rough Steez' and 'Phantom Limb' walling you in with ferocity and volume. The Line Of Best Fit
To fight tooth and nail is to fight with the intensity and ferocity of a wild animal: The resistance forces fought the invading troops tooth and nail. Tooth and nail
It has all the ferocity of a gust that has been snowballing since its departure from Cullen - 20 miles away, but clearly in view across Spey Bay - along the north-east coast.
This vast necropolis of some two and a half million tombs, some with fractured columns and chipped headstones, still bears witness to the ferocity of second world-war bombing raids.
His intensity and the ferocity of his feelings alarmed me.
We may quite allowably heighten the above picture by supposing that the person in her trance, in addition to being mad, might have displayed some of the perceptive powers occasionally developed in trance; and so have evinced, in addition to her demoniacal ferocity, an "uncanny" knowledge of things and persons. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
They will fight with a ferocity, a determination, and a skill, that will astound us.
The pistol had been bought and prepared for the purpose with the utmost nicety, not only for use but show; nor is it unfrequent to find in such instances of premeditated ferocity in design a fearful kind of coxcombry lavished upon the means. The Disowned — Volume 08
He is capable of avuncular charm, wheezy laughter and mischievous wit as well as grizzly ferocity and stick-in-the-mud reactionary attitudes and walking-stick-in-the-hand swashbuckling.
The ferocity and full-throatedness of Thom Southerland's pent-in, close-up, unfussy production, in which everyone is true and Alastair Brookshaw as the pernickety desolate victim is outstanding, means that the small Southwark Playhouse, which earlier this year had a runaway hit with the dynamic Tender Napalm, has now hosted one of the musical events of the year. Decade; The Tempest; The Kitchen; Parade – review
The armed forces seem to have been taken by surprise by the ferocity of the attack.
That the eight-hour day is now under attack testifies both to the ferocity of the present big business offensive, and to the impotence and connivance of the trade unions and social democrats.
Her mind rebelled, clinging with stunning primeval ferocity to that deep-rooted fear of losing control.
His crucial test will be the ferocity of his assault on spending.
In Medieval Europe, wolves acquired a pungent reputation for trickery and ferocity.
One has to admire Hilary's ferocity, much like Muldoon in Jurassic Park really has to admire the escaped raptor's speed before it gobbles him as a pre-lunch amuse-bouche. Dragons' Den: Grace Dent's TV OD
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. George Bernard Shaw
With great ferocity mobs ferreted out Huguenots and hacked them to death. Bloodlust
The Pact includes: religious iconography, a stultified house, a sexy tough girl protagonist played with equal parts fragility and ferocity by Caity Lotz, a newly-dead and much-despised mother, a serial killer on the loose, a fragile girlwoman with raccoon eyes who sees dead people, wiry bald men slithering through small spaces, a hot cop who would like to save the day, but instead provides the movie's nod to gore. Heather Donahue: Sundance 2012: The Pact
His drawings of mature male warrior types of leonine or dragon-like ferocity are a wonderful case in point.
The bulldog, although bred originally for close encounters in blood sports, was a cuddlesome, affable creature beneath the ferocity and gore.
Perhaps a little too far, as it happens, as the downhill slope was fairly shallow and didn't even come close to hinting at the ferocity of the climb back up to the top.
In spite of its 20 million players in 185 countries, squash, by its very nature, will be always be hard-pressed to translate to telly's flatscreen blandness its unique snakepit ferocity, rat-a-tat machine‑gun speed and intimate competitive intensities. World champion Nick Matthew presses the case for squash | Frank Keating
The day after the bluegills spawned, Neff dangled a container with a pumpkinseed sunfish, which preys on eggs and fry, and scored the ferocity of the dads' defense.
He spoke of the long moonless night lyings-in - wait, the pestilential fens, the rivers envenomed by leaves of poison-plants, the deep snow-drifts, the scorching suns, the scorpions, and rains of grasshoppers; he also descanted on the peculiarities of the great lions of the Atlas, their way of fighting, their phenomenal vigour; and their ferocity in the mating season. Tartarin of Tarascon
First, he bulldozed French flanker Serge Betsen before forcing his way over the try line with similar ferocity on the hour mark after a period of sustained pressure.
The Viking berserker was thought not only to have assumed the ferocity of an animal, but also to have acquired the strength of a grizzly.
The act of self-stabbing implies an unsurpassable hopelessness coupled with ferocity; it is the quintessential self-murder.
Women were now playing with the ferocity, commitment and sheer athleticism once associated only with men.
Shark fin is used as a thickener in Chinese shark fin soup, where part of the appeal is the idea of imbibing the strength and ferocity of the shark through its pulverized fins, an idea on par with thinking you'd stay warm if you ate polar bear fur. Carl Safina: Shark Attacked, Media Bites Rosie O'Donnell
But what I have already said will perhaps suffice to show to genuine philological students that a language which, preserving so many of the roots in the aboriginal form, and clearing from the immediate, but transitory, polysynthetical stage so many rude incumbrances, s from popular ignorance into that popular passion or ferocity which precedes its decease, as (to cite illustrations from the upper world) during the The Coming Race
Also, if you do buy on the Gulf, make sure first that your cottage is at least a couple of hundred yards back from the tide's high water mark, or it may be destroyed by another storm of that ferocity. Information on beach areas near Progresso/Merida needed
With dunks exceeded in ferocity only by the altitude of their apex, Wright lifted Dayton to heights not seen on its Ohio campus in nearly 20 years. USATODAY.com
The British appeared taken aback at the ferocity of the attacks. Times, Sunday Times
It feeds on aphids with a single-minded ferocity. Times, Sunday Times
The British appeared taken aback at the ferocity of the attacks. Times, Sunday Times
Some days she could suffer two migraine attacks with terrifying ferocity. Times, Sunday Times
And ferocity is required of Ree, since she is the only one who can keep disaster from her family's door. 'Boxing Gym': A Bout With Human Nature
In the course of that exchange I mentioned that while I understood the pushback against John and the announcement he made last week I didn't understand quite the ferocity of it.
One of the most striking things of arriving on these shores is the sheer ferocity of the battle for your money. Times, Sunday Times
At one time he formed part of that merciless decemvirate which -- with Robespierre at its head -- meant to govern France by laws of bloodshed and of unparalleled ferocity. The Elusive Pimpernel
Her words, and still more her self-devotion; touched two of the men, whose human hearts returned to them sufficiently to make them assist her in withstanding the ferocity of the rest. A Book of Golden Deeds
Some days she could suffer two migraine attacks with terrifying ferocity. Times, Sunday Times
The public debate about animal experimentation has been raging - albeit with varying ferocity - for nearly 140 years.
It engaged with the dynamic ferocity it brings to its surging open play. Times, Sunday Times
Given that local body elections are only 6 months away, the tempo was bound to increase, but I am still somewhat bemused at the ferocity of her attack and the level of her vitriol.
I find myself checking e-mails and responding to texts throughout the day with some kind of Pavlovian ferocity - it's not a conscious act, but a reflexive one. Tanya Schevitz: Josh Radnor Connects to Life Old School Style
The Justice indeed did not call for a bottle to determine whether it should be peace or war, but he did that which answered the purpose as well; for, happening to use the word ferocity, Mrs. Butterfield’s brilliant apprehension immediately understood him to have complimented her with the expression of veracity. Ashton Priory
I ran back to the bathroom and threw up, dry bile and undigested fear and horror at my own ferocity. FOOLS GOLD
It's a tale of love, hatred, betrayal and greed, which moves with the pace of a bull elephant, the ferocity of a wounded lion and with more twists and turns than a hunted gazelle.
The students' warning is loud and clear, but it has lost its former ferocity and urgency.
Found in the third century BC, the crocodile was respected by the Egyptians for its power and ferocity.
And at Sneek, in the church of St. M.rtin, is buried a giant of more renown and prowess -- Peter van Heemstra, or "Lange Pier" as he was called from his inches, a sea ravener of notable ferocity, whose two-handed sword is preserved at Leeuwarden -- although, as M. Havard says, what useful purpose a two-handed sword can serve to an admiral on a small ship baffles reflection. A Wanderer in Holland
And sure enough, the regime has stepped up the ferocity of its attacks, confident now that there will be no international intervention. Times, Sunday Times
I was seized'throttled'muffled-pulled down to the ground with a force that left me breathless-enclosed in an embrace that held the ferocity of a deadly enemy instead of the affection of a spouse. The Curse of the Pharaohs
But there was in these eyes an expression of art and design, and, on provocation, a ferocity tempered by caution, which nature had made obvious to the most ordinary physiognomist, perhaps with the same intention that she has given the rattle to the poisonous snake. Rob Roy
The speed and ferocity of the attacks was astonishing. The Sun
Such was the ferocity the fire backed outbye against an air current of about 26,000 cubic feet per minute. Whitehaven News headlines
Now, with all the agony of a war which increases clay by day in ferocity, beyond anything ever known before, surely we must be ready to mean what we say this time when we talk of preserving peace in the years to come. Target For Tomorrow
The ferocity of Ashdown's attack, made after consultations within the party, followed what looks like certain defeat in the referendum on the alternative vote due to be announced on Friday. Liberal Democrats vent fury at David Cameron as party suffers election rout
You see, he has learned a thing or two from my own back-stabbing acts of rapine ferocity, and doubtless he is applying it to his own affairs.
What redeemed his venomous ferocity was the gusto with which he wrote about the shows he did like—and there were plenty of them—as well as the judiciousness with which he weighed the merits of serious plays about which he had mixed feelings. He Knew What He Liked—Not Much
Tony Hopkins tries out an array of voices and manners - befuddled vagueness, booming ferocity. dangerous, smiling brusqueness.
His face was hardly to be termed prepossessing, but it certainly did not denote the ruthless ferocity which the nature of the task he had undertaken would require, and which he exercised in its accomplishment. La Vend�e
Any idea of separating the careers of prosecutor and judge was attacked with ferocity.
The ferocity of that effort almost reduced the woodwork to rubble.
Probable enough, as long as you subscribe to the notion that the duration and ferocity of Ankersmit's reed assault is the product of some sort of bionic lung machine capable of infinite gale-force winds.
For many of the NO folks, opposition is so engrained as to be a matter of almost religious ferocity such as besets the minority Party of NO that holds our State Legislature hostage when it comes to financial matters. HALFWAY TO CONCORD
Reporters soon adopted the phrase accidental attack, a description that frustrated Pentagon officials, who felt it minimized the ferocity of the sustained assault that had killed or injured two out of every three men on board. The Attack on the Liberty
When he gets a properly written scene he seizes it by the scruff of the neck and shakes the juices out of it with Doberman ferocity.
Rain, and quite a lot of it, drew a bull's-eye on the Washington region with the same ferocity as last winter's relentless blizzards. D.C. region braces for deluge
With the whole power of the government at its back, and with a Constitution so amended as to extend the amplest protection to the new-made citizen, it left him to the inhuman mercy of men whose uncurbed passions, whose deeds of lawlessness and defiance, pale into virtues the ferocity of Cossack warfare. Black and White
Sixty years after the mine collapse, the units glimmered with a sentient robot ferocity nearly a mile below the oblivious world above. 365 tomorrows » Duncan Shields : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
It seemed as though some resolution were ripening within him, which he was himself ashamed of, but which he was gradually getting used to; one single thought kept obstinately and undeviatingly moving up closer and closer, one single image stood out more and more distinctly, and under the burning weight of heavy drunkenness the angry irritation was replaced by a feeling of ferocity in his heart, and a vindictive smile appeared on his lips. A Sportsman's Sketches
The fact that the keeper got a touch as the shot flew past him into the corner of the net was immaterial, given the ferocity of the 23-year old's strike.
In meteorological jargon, a perfect storm is one unsurpassed in ferocity and duration a description that fits the so-called Halloween Gale of October 1991 in the western Atlantic. The Perfect Storm: Summary and book reviews of The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger.
Having conquered New Zealand years ago the army is beginning to lose its elan and ferocity and is drifting into empty formalism and bureaucratisation.
Leontius bred hounds of great size and ferocity.
Despite the ferocity of this storm, the typhoon season this year has been much quieter than usual. Times, Sunday Times
Competitive ferocity and a capacity to be philosophical must coexist in the nature of the jump jockey. Times, Sunday Times
Fortresses construct the Blood Obelisk to increase the ferocity of their town defenders.
And according to Lelyvard, Gandhi the pacifist was a wife-beater, denied sex to his wife for decades, was purported to be a "celibate" living life as an ascetic, but actually was a pedophile who ritualized sleeping naked with underage girls in order to test "the ferocity of his sexual desires," and at one point left his wife for a male lover. Irene Monroe: The Gandhi None of Us Knew
There was a new ferocity in her outburst, a bitterness far removed from her usual cool acerbity. A WORM OF DOUBT
Women were now playing with the ferocity, commitment and sheer athleticism once associated only with men.
An example of the ferocity of the fighting was illustrated by the Third Battalion of the 137 th Infantry Regiment.
You respected him as an unbelievable scrapper with a never-say-die ferocity to play every match as if it was his last.
A noxal action was granted by the statute of the Twelve Tables in cases of mischief done through wantonness, passion, or ferocity, by irrational animals; it being by an enactment of that statute provided, that if the owner of such an animal is ready to surrender it as compensation for the damage, he shall thereby be released from all liability. The Institutes of Justinian
He had never heard such ferocity in a man's voice.
Some days she could suffer two migraine attacks with terrifying ferocity. Times, Sunday Times
For example, the decline of ‘low dives,’ where working-class men had celebrated toughness and ferocity, undercut some of the aggressive rituals of plebeian culture.
I knew what was coming but was still surprised by the ferocity of his anger. FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
Columbus records it during his very first voyage as the name of a people whom his informants fear for their ferocity.
The vatic ferocity of it all seems numbing and alien.
The choruses consist of some Mark Solomon-like wails, followed by screaming of such ferocity that it is almost disturbing.
Yet we were still surprised by their ferocity. Times, Sunday Times
Asked about why this issue was so close to her heart, the full ferocity of her anger really takes off.
But after ‘a fierce shout of mirth’, Heidegger checked himself, and ‘his expression reverted to its habitual ferocity’. Archive 2009-06-01
Without fossil fuels, or some form of alternative energy that can be scaled up to the consumption level of fossil fuels, these non-adaptive social systems will collapse, and all the ferocity of tribal competitiveness, which they had been holding in abeyance, will appear. What a Bunch of Apes! « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
Ana is a nurse whose husband is zombified by the neighbour girl and turns on his wife with incredible speed and ferocity.
My head wants to thank you for all of your pain, because after all this work, your ferocity will be my mane. Ode to “Lox”
If now, in addition to all these things, you have properly reflected upon the odd disorder of the chamber, we have gone so far as to combine the ideas of an agility astounding, a strength superhuman, a ferocity brutal, a butchery without motive, a grotesquerie in horror absolutely alien from humanity, and a voice foreign in tone to the ears of men of many nations, and devoid of all distinct or intelligible syllabification. The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Criticize us if you will for the speed and ferocity of the response to Zumbo, but “sic semper tyrannis” and be instructed by it. Friendly Fire: Gun Nuts Go Full-Auto on One of Their Own « Lean Left
The Gestapo took these efforts seriously enough to crush them with the utmost ferocity.
Freddie might have taken only one wicket himself but the sheer ferocity of his bowling surely accounted for a couple of victims at the other end. The Sun
The velocity and ferocity of some of the attack moves that zoom around the arena are truly bestial in their utter savagery.
The recital which they gave on their return made Germany so unpopular among the brethren that they said that none ought to go there but such as aspired to martyrdom, and that many prayed to Heaven to be preserved from the ferocity of the Germans. The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
The Challenger crew sighted their first iceberg on February 10, 1874, after weathering a storm of such ferocity that the ship was forced to run under treble-reefed topsails.
These wretches undismayed, unmoved by the terrors of the bombarding ravages around, strove and vied with each other in the committal of every act of the most unlicensed ferocity and depredation, breaking open houses, assaulting the inmates, murdering such as shewed resistance, denuding the more submissive of their clothing, abusing women — particularly in the Jewish quarter — to all which atrocities the Europeans were likewise exposed. Travels in Morocco
The police were shocked by the ferocity of the attack.
At such an early stage of the season, this was never going to be exactly a relegation dogfight - but it was certainly competed with the ferocity of one.
Those eyes had undergone a change from murky grunge to acid green as he repeated his question with more ferocity.
It struck with the same kind of ferociousness or ferocity in aboriginal communities as it did in non-aboriginal communities," says Mary-Ellen Kelm, a social historian who has studied the Spanish flu's impact on native communities in British Columbia. Canadian Online Health News
The lion attacked its victim with great ferocity.
The largely unreported clashes that ensued were of exceptional ferocity.
Only let us not deceive ourselves as to this point in future, Germany is the dangerous nation because it is the uncivilizable nation, because its castles, its fields, and its barracks have remained the inexhausted, and perhaps the inexhaustible, reservoirs of human ferocity. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915
However, as the pandemic unfolded with a terrible ferocity across Africa, she became increasingly frustrated with the, in her view, often misdirected efforts of charitable organisations in the Western world.
With the whole power of the government at its back, and with a Constitution so amended as to extend the amplest protection to the new-made citizen, it left him to the inhuman mercy of men whose uncurbed passions, whose deeds of lawlessness and defiance, pale into virtues the ferocity of Cossack warfare. Black and White
Large packs of black matted mastiffs prowl the streets for scraps, occasionally breaking into fights of heart-stopping ferocity.
A battalion of Allied soldiers just half a mile away was unable to help because of the ferocity of the fighting. The Sun
No-one, though, could have predicted quite the extent of the fog and the ferocity of the gales which left the third round, already delayed, uncompleted by all players in the field.
These works leave few expressive facets of the instrument unexplored, and they require a technique that can reproduce everything from a baby's caress to passages of sledgehammer ferocity.
You see, he has learned a thing or two from my own back-stabbing acts of rapine ferocity, and doubtless he is applying it to his own affairs.
The ferocity of the seas and winds however, meant that the rescue was far from straightforward.
His ruggedly handsome features and lion-like eyes lend him a subtle air of ferocity, despite his blank expression.
Retailers of the legend seem stupefied by Tamerlane, never knowing whether to praise him for his military prowess or shudder at his ferocity.
Politicians correctly understood that their ability to generate these since-unequaled rates of voter mobilization, as well as their ability to hold their own parties together, depended on the sharpness, the ferocity, of interparty conflict. Party rivalry past and present
All the way down from Glasgow there is a downpour of such ferocity that I fear for my life.
The ferocity of the attack stunned the team, the judge heard. The Sun
The winds, from which we had been somewhat shielded when we were behind the superstructure, began to churn the helicopter with new ferocity.
That ferocity perhaps explains why her porcelain complexion quickly reddens inside the protective headgear fencing requires. Ward ready to slash her path to the Olympic podium
What was most striking to an outsider's sensibility was the impression that the ferocity of the battle for power was matched only by its vacuity.
And sure enough, the regime has stepped up the ferocity of its attacks, confident now that there will be no international intervention. Times, Sunday Times
Thomas Jefferson had one of his henchmen—excuse me, surrogates—accuse John Adams, in a series of newspaper essays, of being a "hideous hermaphroditical character," a "strange compound of ignorance and ferocity, of deceit and weakness," a "repulsive pedant. How Honest Is 'Honest Abe'?
These are in effect as follows, viz.: Our domestic dog is derived from a species, one or more, akin to the wolf, the jackal, and the fox; to a group of animals not characterized by great native intelligence, but distinguished for their ferocity and their general untamableness. Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization
This tiny falcon's single-minded ferocity in pursuit of its prey is a sight to make you catch your breath. Times, Sunday Times
Playing with ferocity, thinking with velocity, about ornithology or anthropology, and even episcope (ph), and this real history ... Guru: Hip-Hop's Elder Statesman Dies Young
Europe's powers would have fought over their differences without Napoleon. But the scale and ferocity of conflict was due in large part to the emperor's "aggression, egomania and lust for power".
Instead of looking at the sea, he found himself at the boulevard, his eyes being stung by the intense ferocity and strength of the pounding gust.
Anyone notice the increase in ferocity of these things this year? Salmon Fishery: Another Ecosystem on its Last Gasp « Colleen Anderson
It is easy, I think, to imagine this band being a group of mere copyists - a page from Talking Heads here, a page from Fred Wesley there - but they manage to escape these charges on what I see as sheer ferocity.
She's wild-haired and wailing, her body buckled and that voice chasing down melody with a search-and-destroy ferocity. Times, Sunday Times
Back then, his face had been firm and strong and his bright amber eyes had had a ferocity to them that could be intimidating but also very warm.
But the fact that these changes have happened, and that other accidents of time have edulcorated that general ferocity which made even men of worth in England refuse to lament the death of the Prince Imperial in our service, should on the whole be rather favourable to a quiet consideration of this remarkable book. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
This power, we learn, has been asserted with ferocity over the past five decades.
It was not the ferocity of the attack that was so ominous for the Government so much as its desperation. Times, Sunday Times
He is capable of avuncular charm, wheezy laughter and mischievous wit as well as grizzly ferocity and stick-in-the-mud reactionary attitudes and walking-stick-in-the-hand swashbuckling.
It has all the ferocity of a gust that has been snowballing since its departure from Cullen - 20 miles away, but clearly in view across Spey Bay - along the north-east coast.
The ferocity of his attacks on women began to build. Times, Sunday Times
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. George Bernard Shaw
Competitive ferocity and a capacity to be philosophical must coexist in the nature of the jump jockey. Times, Sunday Times
The clearing had become a dome of light, a circle watched over by the ferocity of a dozen halogen lamps. BLOOD IS DIRT
The bulldog, although bred originally for close encounters in blood sports, was a cuddlesome, affable creature beneath the ferocity and gore.
Smythe says, "They are generous, friendly, and hospitable in the extreme; but mixed with such an appearance of rudeness, ferocity and haughtiness, which is, in fact, only a want of polish, occasioned by their deficiencies in education and in knowledge of mankind, as well as their general intercourse with slaves. Patrician and Plebeian Or The Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion
Some may be put off by the sheer ferocity of her coloratura and expressive devices, but I find them apt, thrilling, and awesomely accurate.
Such were the stories of that abandoned dog's blunderheaded ferocity to which I was forced to listen, while all the time the brute sat opposite me on the hearth-rug, blinking at me from under his shaggy mane with his evil, bleared eyes, and deliberating where he would have me when I rose to go. Stories by English Authors: London (Selected by Scribners)
Those eyes had undergone a change from murky grunge to acid green as he repeated his question with more ferocity.
Found in the third century BC, the crocodile was respected by the Egyptians for its power and ferocity.
Those of us who were close to her saw clearly that Madalyn loved and defended her children with the intensity and ferocity of a broody hen and could never understand or recover from the loss of her older son William.
He hewed to his original self-conception with unrepentant ferocity, engaging in a type of human alchemy, changing himself into an imaginary creature who lived in place of the ordinary man.
There's not much room for subtlety here, but the sheer ferocity of the writing sometimes shocks. Times, Sunday Times
They are a nocturne in argent and gold, and they burn with the ferocity of dying (which is to say, the luminosity of what’s living hardest). Darkness Audible: Negative Capability and Mark Dotys 'Nocturne in Black and Gold'
Though his gap-toothed smile would light up his face, anger him and he revealed a very dark side, a natural ferocity accentuated by intimidating, sharklike eyes. Kill the Irishman
He also has an eminently sane attitude to the ferocity of past arguments about the relative influences of nature and nurture.
But the face expresses the same deadpan ferocity as the film.
The film illustrates this shift in consciousness with a visceral ferocity.

How To Use Ferocity In A Sentence

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