How To Use Furious In A Sentence

  • Furious staff have lashed out at company bosses for not informing workers that the plant was in trouble before it became public knowledge.
  • Stewards held back furious fans, and security personnel had to duck as objects seemed to be thrown. Times, Sunday Times
  • I was so furious I couldn't control myself and I hit him.
  • As the phalanx of furious, excited inmates came sweeping into the servery, Jerrold recognised his danger. THE SCAR
  • That Sara’d mentioned a name Greg had never heard of made him furious. Scarlet Nights
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  • Assuming that I don't have some sort of malignant brain tumor *knocks wood furiously*, it must be that this alien life-form, this adorable-but-nonetheless-parasitic superbeing, is sucking every nutrient from my body and turning these to his own nefarious supergrowth purposes. Pass The Smelling Salts
  • He listened intently, jabbed furiously three or four times at the transmitting key, then leapt to his feet, tearing his headphones off. THE LONELY SEA
  • I hiked furiously, but it was pitch-dark and snowing.
  • She sat down in her chair looking furious and just gave me a sneer and a withering look.
  • Local district councillors are furious that they are being forced by the Government to introduce fees for commercial waste collection.
  • However, the women were furious, and the elderly man had been dishonored and humiliated.
  • I furiously scratched out what I had just written in the notebook, and replaced it with more than just a few malicious thoughts.
  • His furious lunge at the snapper has sullied his clean-cut image. The Sun
  • Romoeuf, riding a franc etrier, on that old Herb-merchant's route, quickened during the last stages, has got to Varennes; where the Ten thousand now furiously demand, with fury of panic terror, that Royalty shall forthwith return Paris-ward, that there be not infinite bloodshed. The French Revolution
  • She was furious - screaming bloody murder at the manager!
  • Flood victims were furious today after planners called for a £1 million defence scheme at Stamford Bridge to be put on hold.
  • He was wakened by a savage whiskerando of the other watch, who, seizing him by his waistband, dragged him most indecorously out, furiously denouncing him for a skulker. Israel Potter
  • Selena was more than mad at her daughter; she was furious.
  • Under a barrage of criticism from furious shopkeepers, the council admitted there were still no proper signs at the approaches to the town directing people to the public car parks.
  • He quickly drew back and slid towards the opposite edge of the bench, blushing furiously.
  • And aren't we furious when we find out that people like the engineers at the Deepwater Horizon oilrig, have downplayed the dangers? Lise Van Susteren: Psychic Pains and Spilled Oil
  • Swallowtails, cabbage whites, skippers, and orange sulphurs follow scent trails to the tiny patches of flowers blooming furiously in the middle of the city.
  • The seven-year-old child suffers from dyslexia, dyspraxia and attention deficit disorder, and his mother says she is furious at the way he was treated.
  • A dense fug of tobacco smoke hangs over them as they furiously puff away.
  • Fat, perspiring men and women were furiously fanning paper plates in a doomed effort to circulate the stale air.
  • His furious lunge at the snapper has sullied his clean-cut image. The Sun
  • When Rostnikov repeated that the primary evidence against Samsonov was the testimony of an Evenk shaman, Samsonov had to be restrained by Famfanoff who, surprisingly, found enough strength within his abused body to control the furious doctor. A Cold Red Sunrise
  • Michael furiously takes down all the witty sallies and asides, converting the evening into his next play.
  • Critics of fish farming are furious at what they consider to be an attempt to hoodwink the public.
  • But Mr. Mubarak's language and refusal to yield to what he called the intervention of foreigners left protesters furious, the scene in Cairo precarious and the White House seemingly unable to influence events. Crisis Puts White House in Disarray
  • He made a noise of what I took to be assent, muffled as it was by the furious flapping of his frilly pinny over the shrieking smoke alarm.
  • Sara, while remaining outwardly amiable toward all concerned, was inwardly furious.
  • She was furious after seeing his girlfriend enjoying the jet-set lifestyle she once had. The Sun
  • Life is just one big vain, greedy, acquisitive, covetous, furious orgy - and then you die.
  • In France, the Elysee Palace is still reeling after a "bossnapping" - manufacturer 3M improved the severance packages for more than 110 workers in exchange for the liberty of manager, Luc Rousselet, who spent more than 24 hours as prisoner of his own furious employees. Undefined
  • He then celebrated in quintessential Paterson style, sprinting away down the line while furiously dabbing.
  • If you criticize him, it's like a red rag to a bull-he gets absolutely furious.
  • The horrors of the spring were fading as the winners came fast and furious through the autumn. FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
  • The ambitious architecture student was furious when the Congo government closed a university in the capital Kinshasa. The Sun
  • A furious player kicked his racket into the grandstand.
  • When it is bubbling furiously, salt it generously then add the linguine.
  • Furious now, his mother stormed across the room and yanked open his vanity drawer, rummaging around until she found a pair of shears.
  • Another time, the Skink commander was fired on by a sniper. Unhurt but furious, the commander directed the Skink's guns to fire in the direction of the sniper.
  • The opening stages were predictably fast and furious. The Sun
  • Feffer in the furious whirling of his spirit took hint for a fixed point.
  • When it comes to compassion and humanity, everyone I talk to is furious over such behaviour.
  • And she is in for a furious row with her daughter. The Sun
  • Furious residents are battling for the second time to stop huge mobile phone masts going up in Corsham town centre.
  • He that would know the operation of the herbs must look up to the stars astrologically," says this master; and so to him briony is "a furious martial plant," and brank ursine "an excellent plant under the dominion of the moon. Apologia Diffidentis
  • As the fingerpicking gets faster and more furious, you get swept up in the frenzy without even once noticing how out-there the opinions or plans you're contemplating are.
  • Residents in the area are furious at the decision.
  • The dog raced ahead, its tail wagging furiously.
  • Sammy tapped her thumb furiously on the kick button, blocked Jack's move, and sent the character spiraling into the air.
  • She was like a terrier worrying an elk hound, charging in and pressing an attack so fast and furious he had no choice but to defend himself.
  • Andy and Vicki had a furious row outside their house, in full view of the neighbours.
  • Presently it opened and disclosed fifty horsemen, gathered together to waylay merchants on the highway, and their captain, by name Kahrdash, was a lion in daring and dash; a furious lion who layeth knights flat as carpets in battle-crash. — The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • They were furious that lorries could go to and from the site at a rate of one every five minutes to take tens of thousands of tonnes of rubble from the old mill to landfill on the site.
  • The frantic and furious beating took on the dimension and character of a collective crew of railroaders pounding spikes in unison on a stretch of track.
  • Nine inches long and screaming at the top of its lungs, the cat was paddling furiously.
  • It might seem a bit petty but we're all furious because we were robbed. The Sun
  • Furiously he elbowed his way through the crush, his men behind him.
  • She knew she ought to be furious; he hadn't exactly snowed her, but he'd taken advantage of a faith she didn't put in many people, of the memories of her childhood.
  • He gave a faintly malicious smile at her furious expression.
  • Of this much I'm certain - Down will be absolutely furious when I tell him that his words have been twisted in this way.
  • She saw again the Dinard letter and his furious despair at a word overheard at a wine-shop table. The French Immortals Series — Complete
  • Yetwhile my mind spins furiously with all these things I should do andshould want to do, my bodyfeels awfully stubborn about remaining perched in one spot, complaining with increased aches and stiffness about gardneing orbiking, invoking extra effort to read with eyes that can no longer bring fine printinto focus. 2008 July « Becca’s Byline
  • Told in mockumentary style, the film is fast and furious and the humour's down and dirty. The Sun
  • English doesn't have the equivalent of enojadísimo, but "furious" is a better translation than "very angry. Viboras--Snakes (Poisonous ones at that! Ouch! )
  • The press release provoked furious protests from the Gore camp and other top Democrats.
  • Little red berries, like blood stars, peeped at them from the setting of silk lace moss -- wintergreen berries, and grouse berries, and lowbush cranberries, all blushing a furious red. The Outcasts
  • Row upon row of desks was spread out before the panel in an intricate latticework, and numerous academy students were already scribbling furiously onto sheets of parchments with well-inked quills.
  • The thug strove furiously to clamp his meaty paws around the lighter man's neck, but the deceptive strength of the other's rangy thews held him at bay.
  • She painted white-out over a few names, then blew and waved furiously until it was dry.
  • The language is filthy, furious and comically hyperaggressive, and even the fight scenes are convincing. Times, Sunday Times
  • The evocator, furious, throws him out of the circle. Là-bas
  • Adrienne blushed furiously, but Janet's crimson cheeks outdid hers. ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
  • Furious at the loss of her mother, Marian is filled with a surge of unfamiliar power. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Query Workshop
  • I feel that two furious winds obliterate noodles but lead, then appeared 2 rightnesses to dash away a ground of feet scaleboard in view, "Xiu" a Shan entered a crystal temple so big palace door.
  • She handselled it, and hastening where he lay, cried in furious fashion, "You are unbound already. French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France
  • So furious had he been that he had wanted to perform an abortion himself, immediately.
  • Lorenzo is furious with Launcelot and his insubordinate trickery.
  • He ran on to the rebound, but again he was thwarted as the keeper back-pedalled furiously to complete his solo stand.
  • Given that it is two papers out of a single edition of nature which are “in question”, I can see why this paper is soft-pedalling furiously. The Hwang Affair: A Chronology « Climate Audit
  • Ken was furious, but forced himself to appear calm on the outside.
  • His sinewy arms flailed around uselessly, his legs kicked furiously, but the ocean's grip on him only got stronger as it pulled him further down.
  • But it left me to sort out the mess with opponents furious and TV execs pulling their hair out. The Sun
  • Johnny and Harry straggled along, trying to keep up with Hugh's furious pace on the walk home.
  • Well, really quite cross anyway, sufficiently furious to blow the froth off a cappuccino perhaps.
  • The act closes with a terzetto of great power ( "O! di qual sei tu"), in which both the priestess and Adalgisa furiously denounce the faithless Pollione. The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers
  • Furious government officials branded her story "garbage".
  • He boiled tea for the customers in an enormous, pitted stainless-steel kettle, watching with furious concentration as the water seethed, overspilled, and sizzled into the gas flame. THE WHITE TIGER
  • Staff are furious that their benefits are being crunched while top brass pocket huge sums. The Sun
  • If so, no wonder David Blunkett is reported to be furious at the publication of Archer's book.
  • I can imagine Whitman at the end of his life posting furiously, orgiastically. Adam Hanft: Do We Need Another Place to Kvetch? More Than You Realize
  • The move has sparked a furious reaction from employees and triggered fears of a middle management cull at the group. Times, Sunday Times
  • One boy assumes the head, turning it this way and that, blinking furiously, another boy was in charge of the lion's hindquarters and its wagging tail.
  • What a furious final finger to the world. Times, Sunday Times
  • I look up and see fat feathery fledglings flapping furiously, flying fairly fast (look at me, I'm alliterating)!
  • Amongst the personages of a lower class, the most prominent is Toussaint Gilles, landlord of the Cheval Patriote, and son of one of the revolutionary butchers of the Reign of Terror; a furious republican, who wears a _carmagnole_ and a red cap, inherits his father's hatred of the vile aristocrats, and prides himself on his principles, and on a truculent and immeasurable mustache. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
  • Looking visually back on the last three presidents, from the entitled jaws of Clinton to the dumb, glazed emptiness of Bush's head and eyes to the now-furious Obama, it is easier to find a worthwhile summer movie than a psychologically appropriate person to be our President. Dr. Cheryl Pappas: Obama: The Words and the Missing Actions
  • Life in Spain is fast and furious, with lots of nightlife and fantastic restaurants. Times, Sunday Times
  • At one point the linesman was the busiest man in the ground waving his flag furiously every few minutes.
  • The enemy quickly overran most of the South Vietnamese position, but not even a furious 5-hour assault could dislodge the Americans.
  • How mad they are, how furious, and upon small occasions, rash and inconsiderate in their proceedings, how they dote, every page almost will witness, — — — delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Nevertheless, liberals are furious about what they're calling a stonewall tactic, reminiscent of the Bush-Cheney years. CNN Transcript May 13, 2009
  • The Chilean's eyes popped from his head as he struggled furiously to tear away the steel-sinewed hand that had stopped off his breath. "Terrors Unseen" by Harl Vincent, part 8
  • CAR assembly line workers are furious after bosses set strict times when they go to the loo. The Sun
  • Since we had begun scudding she had ceased to take the seas over her bow, but amidships they broke fast and furious. Story of a Typhoon off the Coast of Japan
  • A new home owner furious at faults with the construction has put up a warning notice to other potential buyers.
  • The last thing I'd ever do is sermonize that "you should have gone home first," which is why this story makes me furious as well as intensely sympathetic. Bad news from the Crüxshadows
  • A furious storm of rain impeded the promised advance of the army, but a statement received from the South announces that General Hooker had crossed the Rappahannock. Foreign and Colonial Intelligence
  • Laura had, in fact, been sputteringly furious at the idea of Eugenia refusing to let him keep the dog. Dreaming of the Bones
  • The furious hotel worker says she left without a diagnosis for stomach pains and vomiting blood. The Sun
  • The departments are furious at the misuse being made of their facilities.
  • He stepped off the train surrounded by a large, furious crowd, fuming at the little man who had brought such hardship to their community. Ben Brandzel: Rally to Restore Satyagraha?
  • Flies buzzed, cockerels crowed, goats bleated and a chorus of dogs was howling furiously.
  • This just makes me furious," said Castor, who rides his lava red sunglow Harley Davidson IndyStar.com Top Stories
  • 'You're welcome to stay as long as you like.' Michelle shot him a furious glance.
  • Tol yer chib, or I'll heat the bones of you with the fires of Bongo Tem," she screamed furiously, and in a mixture of her mother-tongue and English. Red Money
  • The new import laws have provoked furious complaints from business groups.
  • The song is an instrumental, centered around a long guitar solo in which Pike again keeps it slow, taking a break from his trademark hammering trills and letting the notes hang while the rhythm section pummels away furiously.
  • Her eyes burning furiously like an untamable fire.
  • She was furious, but she still carried a vague guilt, a concern that Gavin suspected she had pinpricked her diaphragm. Strangers at the Feast
  • This was not a display from a side supposedly fuming and furious about losing a manager. The Sun
  • Swept along, we paddled furiously to miss the many boulders that appeared in front of us.
  • I was absolutely furious with him.
  • We were about to ask for a table for dinner, but furious at being treated so rudely we just walked out.
  • As the Bounty drew closer to the hurricane, the churning seas and furious winds intensified. Times, Sunday Times
  • I was annoyed, indeed furious, over what happened.
  • Furious with herself, she cut into the fruit cake, watching steam rise from its centre, and placed a comfortingly large slice on his plate.
  • The man gasped agonizedly and went to his knees, but his tall mate lunged in, in ferocious silence, raining blow on blow so furiously that Valeria had no opportunity to counter. The Conquering Sword of Conan
  • Day after day people read of projects going way over budget, and they are getting furious. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was attacked after a furious row with his girlfriend. Times, Sunday Times
  • Nikki was spotted having a furious argument with Danny outside the set of the show.
  • We can't let the furious, intense opposition from Wall Street, the insurance companies, Big Oil and the far-right fringe discourage or dispirit us. Robert Creamer: 10-2-10 Rally Gives Progressives a Chance to Stand Up Straight
  • As I do not travel at a furious speed I manage to avoid most things, even the wandering loveless oil-beetle and the small rose-beetle and that slow-moving insect tortoise the tumbledung. Afoot in England
  • 'Night Stalker' supect described as 'fantasist' Pathologist found guilty of misconduct new Sixty children saved from abuse in UK as paedophile ring is broken Military furious at plans to prepare cover for prison staff strike Sixty children saved from abuse in UK as paedophile ring is broken The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • The new building steers the straits between meticulous restoration and furious demolition, refusing a puritanical stance towards the glass-cased bibelot.
  • With Ickes lobbying furiously on behalf of the Bureau, how-ever, the full Congress refused to go along.
  • He furiously pointed at Powell and launched a broadside of obscenities at the Secretary.
  • Businesses and households will be furious if there is fresh disruption. Times, Sunday Times
  • I mocked as innocently as possible, batting my eyelashes as furiously as I could.
  •  She wanted to make a furious retort, to tell him that she thought the saggar had been inviting her to stroke the bird, but pride prevented her. Falcon's Prey
  • I was so furious I just couldn't contain myself .
  • And the mogul is telling Hollywood folk there that "the strike is over", according to emails coming fast and furious out of that venue. STRIKE OVER?
  • Swallowtails, cabbage whites, skippers, and orange sulphurs follow scent trails to the tiny patches of flowers blooming furiously in the middle of the city.
  • It's the kind of kewl kid gossip they furiously blackberry to each other all day long. Hullabaloo
  • I am absolutely furious that he divorced me to marry her.
  • The people who are furious that their tax rate might go up so that the undeserving poor won't die of the flu - these are just ugly, ugly horrible mean people, who are more interested in what other people * aren't* doing with their lives than they are in what they * are* doing with theirs. Time to make crullers
  • Hot hurricane action: water crashes furiously over the sea wall, palm trees whip back and forth in an orgiastic frenzy and street signs waggle suggestively in the wind.
  • Many were killed because a rope might break or because a climber could be startled by the sudden appearance of a furious bird.
  • Amid chaotic scenes, furious workers launched a barrage of fruit and vegetables and eggs from their packed lunches. The Sun
  • Finally the flame would engulf his head and he'd explode in a furious orange ball of flame.
  • The tide was still ebbing furiously and the course lay once again upwind, and for a few minutes I amused some onlooking fisherman by not making any headway at all.
  • These scampered through his brain and tore up his heart and tumbled about in his throat and lungs, and maintained a furious harlequinade, and in short behaved in a way that was quite disgraceful, and that caused the poor young man alternately to amuse, annoy, astonish, and stun his comrades, who beheld the exterior results of those private theatricals, but had no conception of the terrific combats that took place so frequently on the stage within. The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains
  • I was furious, absolutely livid. The Sun
  • After being cast -- and then replaced by Liam Neeson -- for a comedic cameo in the sequel to the hit 'The Hangover,' Mel Gibson is downright "furious" with producers of the film, according to Page Six. Mel Gibson Reportedly Furious About 'Hangover 2'
  • But he admits that just because he is not screaming claret and blue murder at his blundering players does not mean he is not furious inside. The Sun
  • The furious debates over power ‘reforms’ have raged mostly around the massive hikes in tariffs that squeeze millions of small farmers.
  • Paul Tranter and James Warn of the University of New South Wales wanted to see if following professional motor sports as a fan added to the need to be fast and furious.
  • As the Frenchman back-pedals furiously, the ball lands on the roof of the goal.
  • Morales told the Mexican press over a week ago -at that time, unaware of the additional US gunrunning probe- she had demanded a full explanation from the United States government, and also confirmed that at least 200 murders have occurred in Mexico as a result of Operation Fast and Furious. Aurelia Fierros: Mexicans Irate About Fast and Furious, Wide Receiver
  • The furious hotel worker says she left without a diagnosis for stomach pains and vomiting blood. The Sun
  • Instead, they are furious about the vastly teenier expenses of education, healthcare, job creation, banking regulation -- you know, the things that actually benefit the protesters themselves. Bag the Tea Bagging
  • The enemy opened the attack on our lines with furious artillery fire. Times, Sunday Times
  • I fired off a furious letter to the editor.
  • This was not a display from a side supposedly fuming and furious about losing a manager. The Sun
  • They came out from the shelter of the cedar forest with a rush, yelling furiously, each man waving his long jezail in his left hand, while a long curved tulwar, keen as a razor, flashed in his right -- big, stalwart, long-bearded, dark-eyed men, with gleaming teeth and a fierce look of determination to slay painted in every feature. Fix Bay'nets The Regiment in the Hills
  • I immediately hunched over the old manual pencil sharpener and furiously cranked that handle.
  • Ashamed of her unbased fright and furious that he had witnessed it, Lessa sat rebelliously down on the fur-covered wall seat, heartily wishing him a variety of serious and painful injuries that she could dress with inconsiderate hands. DragonFlight
  • He took his backpack off before lying completely on the floor and furiously scrabbling at the mortar with his fingers.
  • My father was furious at first, but eventually we came to an understanding.
  • A similar danger recalled the intrepid prince to the defence of the front; and, as he galloped through the columns, the centre of the left was attacked, and almost overpowered by the furious charge of the The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • His salacious grin faltered then disappeared and he glared at her, furious with himself for being tricked so easily.
  • She began furiously rowing the boat to the right, trying to escape the current.
  • Because of the movie "The Fast and the Furious" many people today think that the word "nitro" means having something extra on your car that boosts its speed. ... Feeds4all documents in category 'SEO'
  • There has always been a furious doggedness to him, a strong-willed purposefulness that drove him, sometimes headlong, through life.
  • After consulting with the linesman, the referee gives the goal despite animated protests from the furious German team.
  • The pavid matron within the one vehicle (speeding to the Bank for her semestrial pittance) shrieked and trembled; the angry Dives hastening to his office (to add another thousand to his heap,) thrust his head over the blazoned panels, and displayed an eloquence of objurgation which his very Menials could not equal; the dauntless street urchins, as they gayly threaded the Labyrinth of Life, enjoyed the perplexities and quarrels of the scene, and exacerbated the already furious combatants by their poignant infantile satire. Burlesques
  • He realises that the best pictures need subtlety and depth as well as all that furious foreground action. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is some furious lobbying going on by the main terrestrial broadcasters to change government policy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Edgardo, red-faced, furious, retreated, met the manager coming across the dining room. Shortcut Man
  • But now that he could look at her properly, he could see two coal-black eyes, glaring furiously at his own green ones.
  • At the hippodrome on the city's edge, thousands of cheering and whistling spectators watched about 50 riders, many in red-and-black traditional robes, compete furiously at buzkashi.
  • I couldn't go fast, no matter which gear I tried or how furiously I pumped my chubby legs.
  • Furious Martin, an independent financial advisor, called Teide but they insisted they just hadn't booked the courses yet. The Sunday Mail - Home
  • Parents and health campaigners are furious, saying it encourages promiscuity. The Sun
  • I was still furiously wiping at my eyes with my sleeve, and my skin was raw from the friction.
  • A chilling hospital scene depicts zombified patients walking up and down a small corridor in rhythmic despair, pushing their IV stands and furiously puffing away on their oral fixatives.
  • Some of the men broke ranks in a furious gallop to the river where they gulped water in joyous abandon.
  • The Lamb was furiously unwishful to be dressed in his warm clothes again, but Anthea and Jane managed it, by force disguised as coaxing, and he never once whooping-coughed. The Phoenix and the Carpet
  • He was furious with himself for letting things get so out of control.
  • I blinked furiously, quite fascinated by the fact she's being so open with me.
  • Churchill was furious when he learned Donovan planned to slip his men back into the Chetnik camp. Wild Bill Donovan
  • She smiled, but privately she was furious.
  • My heart pounded furiously in my chest, and dizziness washed over me in waves.
  • What a furious final finger to the world. Times, Sunday Times
  • Residents of Netherlands Avenue were furious after their road was used as a diversion onto Huddersfield Road.
  • We tear around the house, sticking fingers in unattended saucepans, risking furious yells by opening the fridge and PEEKING; we laugh wildly and imagine the things le pere Noel will bring. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Ghosts of Christmas Past
  • Boris, who I love dearly, is furious about the rampant double standards of those dreadful Tabloid Newspapers. Archive 2007-02-18

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