How to Use livid in a Sentence
livid
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The judge had the final word, and the father was livid.
— Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 July 2021 -
Huge swathes of the public seem livid Markle can’t grin and bear it.
— Raven Smith, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2021 -
Joan is livid, but a meeting with her lawyer gets her nowhere.
— Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2023 -
Health officials in New York were livid over the event.
— Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 6 June 2019 -
Brother 2 was livid and hasn’t spoken to us for three years.
— Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 10 Aug. 2021 -
My husband was livid, and drove the three hours to the police station to bail him out and bring him back home.
— Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 10 July 2019 -
By this time David is livid, and shouting; the director can’t tell him what’s wrong with the take.
— Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2021 -
Conway was livid, and Ballard said the two of them haven’t spoken since.
— Trisha Thadani, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Mar. 2018 -
Egger was so livid over the final vote that a deputy had to ask him to quiet down.
— Gregory S. Schneider, Anchorage Daily News, 26 July 2023 -
Just a few days earlier, a livid red rash had spread across my cheeks and chin.
— Jancee Dunn, Vogue, 8 Nov. 2019 -
Ruth decides to open up about what happened with Tom Grant, and Sam is livid.
— Kathryn Lindsay, refinery29.com, 29 June 2018 -
One of the most livid was actress Mimi Rogers, who stands ready to lead the charge against the utility.
— Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023 -
Lions coaches were livid and ran onto the field to confront the refs.
— Darron Patterson, al, 23 Sep. 2022 -
Chris is livid and yells about how young everyone at start-ups look.
— Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 31 May 2019 -
Readers who wanted O’Neal to stay with the Magic were livid.
— Jeff Pearlman, orlandosentinel.com, 21 Dec. 2020 -
Trump was livid about the Fox call, in particular, and lashed out at the network, a source said.
— Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy, CNN, 5 Nov. 2020 -
After his knockout loss to Fury in 2020, Wilder was livid that Breland had thrown in the towel to stop the fight.
— Josh Katzowitz, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2021 -
Police and Mayor Rahm Emanuel were livid when the charges against Smollett were dropped.
— Ryan Parker, Billboard, 23 Apr. 2019 -
Aurangzeb was livid when news reached him in Delhi about what had happened on the Gunsway.
— Howard Schneider, National Review, 15 Aug. 2020 -
Trump’s scowl was partly buried in a mass of livid, blood-red and bruise-purple brushstrokes.
— Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017 -
Tartaglia was livid, even though Cardano acknowledged his work in the book.
— Quanta Magazine, 30 June 2022 -
While some were livid and others brushed it off, everyone was on the same page about the content.
— Arika Herron, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Aug. 2021 -
The last call of the first half had Steve Donahue absolutely livid.
— Mike Jensen, Philly.com, 15 Mar. 2018 -
Fultz was livid upon learning about what Jones said Brown told him.
— Keith Pompey, Philly.com, 29 Jan. 2018 -
Bob Irsay was livid and had set up a meeting with Meyer.
— Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Dec. 2021 -
When Belmonte didn’t send him the money, Whitehead was livid.
— Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2023 -
His associate called Beyler, who was livid to learn Lively was still in prison.
— Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2020 -
Natalie Roberts, 43, shouted at the drivers of a pickup truck with a Trump sign in the back, who grew livid.
— Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2020 -
The collective rage from both parents and non-parents all over the internet has been loud and livid.
— Tanay Howard, Parents, 12 Aug. 2024 -
Dunaway, who ended up wearing a hat to film the scene, was livid and screamed a stream of obscenities before storming off.
— Jeremy Helligar, Peoplemag, 13 July 2024
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