ferocious
Example Sentences
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Scream queen Samara Weaving has an extraordinary yell: shrill, feral and ferocious, like a mongoose before it goes on the attack.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026
Gyllenhaal zips between tones and styles with a ferocious abandon.
From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026
“We have never seen a demand cycle like what we are experiencing now in the AI/datacenter infrastructure space,” wrote JPMorgan analyst Stephen Tusa, calling the current environment the “most ferocious we have ever seen.”
From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026
Falconers believe that the milder the name, the more ferocious the hunter.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
One of the ferocious birds came to rest on the Crochan and for an instant remained poised there, beating its wings.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.