How to Use ferocity in a Sentence

ferocity

noun

• We were stunned by the ferocity of the storm.
• The ferocity of the winds sent embers swirling through the air.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 19 Aug. 2023
• The first one arrived with a muted ferocity, hit the back of my head, and fell to the floor with a thud.
  — The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
• The team also found that the amount of food impacted the ferocity of the bouts.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Nov. 2020
• No fan base fights through all the L's with such ferocity.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 27 June 2023
• The ferocity of the storm was unlike that of any the region has seen, Poloncarz said.
  — Melissa Chan, NBC News, 26 Dec. 2022
• The summer brought fires of rare ferocity that leveled the town of Greenville.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2021
• Both the ferocity of the backlash to the Fed’s ethics dilemma and the speed of the review might have owed in part to the sensitive timing.
  — New York Times, 21 Oct. 2021
• At the trial — Juliet was 15 and Pauline was 16 — the details of the ferocity of the killing sent shock waves around New Zealand.
  — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023
• The ferocity of the delivery sells the message better than the words do.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 27 Jan. 2023
• Did the Vikings match that ferocity at any other point in the season?
  — Steve Silverman, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• Hochul said the scale of the storm will be worse than the famous blizzard of 1977 in its intensity and ferocity of the winds.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 25 Dec. 2022
• At the far end of the gallery hangs a suite of small, square and tranquil seascapes, but their mood is hardly enough to calm the show’s overall ferocity.
  — Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2021
• His was the only door open, save the doors of his mind which were opening and closing with the ferocity of mystery.
  — Riley Van Steward, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• In India, the ferocity of the second wave left hospitals too full to treat the sick.
  — Washington Post, 17 June 2021
• The music, the words, the Warhol, the attitude, the androgyny, the fragility, the ferocity.
  — Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2023
• Davis shows us the pain and pride fueling the ferocity.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Apr. 2021
• Both plays had a similar design, schemed up with the same goal in mind: use the Colts speed and ferocity against them.
  — Jim Ayello, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Dec. 2020
• But experts say the ferocity and scale of this downturn could end up leading to more of an ice age.
  — Julian Mark and Gerrit De Vynck, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2022
• The ferocity of that response has been condemned by many countries around the world.
  — Cary Spivak, Journal Sentinel, 2 Mar. 2024
• The searing heat, the choking smoke, the sheer ferocity of the fires and the intense activity all around is hard to process at times.
  — Eleni Giokos, CNN, 11 Aug. 2021
• Watts used to be the coolest cat in the room by virtue of the implacability that came hand in hand with his ferocity.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 15 Oct. 2021
• The coach’s presence in the stands did little to slow Carlos Vela’s ferocity.
  — Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 20 Dec. 2020
• But the beds around him are unlikely to stay empty for long, given the ferocity of the fighting in the Donbas.
  — Hanna Arhirova, ajc, 15 Jan. 2023
• Moses, a hardened denizen of the streets, is played by Jon Michael Hill with a ferocity that attests to a lifetime of hard luck and racist gut punches.
  — Marilyn Stasio, Variety, 22 Aug. 2021
• Kentucky’s governor said Sunday the ferocity of the storm was so great that there was nowhere safe to hide inside the plant.
  — al, 14 Dec. 2021
• Kentucky's governor said Sunday the ferocity of the storm was so great that there was nowhere safe to hide inside the plant.
  — CBS News, 13 Dec. 2021
• Fish McWilliams and Isaiah Forte are the leaders of the defensive line and are plugging holes with ferocity.
  — Evan Dudley, al, 20 Oct. 2022
• The stock peaked in early July at $200 and gapped down with ferocity at the beginning of August.
  — John Navin, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2024
• After Beethoven died in 1827, musical Europe paid its demigod homage by building ever more generous halls to enshrine his music — halls that neutralized its trapped, cage-rattling ferocity.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024