How to Use seethe in a Sentence

seethe

1 of 2 verb

• We found ourselves in the middle of a seething crowd.
• He seethed at his brother's success.
• In the 2012 Olympics, a seething Lloyd was benched for the opening game.
  — Kevin Baxter, latimes.com, 8 June 2019
• The island seems still to seethe and smoke, like the mouth of a gun after a shot.
  — Timothy O'Grady, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2019
• Let’s hope he’s not too close by as Trump seethes in the White House this week.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 10 Apr. 2018
• As the violence seethed, the bricks of the hospital came down.
  — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 5 July 2019
• But, of course, there’s a comic side to the seething dynamics.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Apr. 2023
• Camille, who is Gen X, seethes in silence and cuts in private.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 28 June 2018
• The Wings were bumped to fourth, leaving Yzerman to seethe.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 18 May 2021
• Emily renders the sun, a seething haze, and the quiet Tiber with a nimble touch.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2023
• The tent shudders on its stout poles and the tent fabric strains at its triple-sewn seams, seething and popping.
  — Barry Lopez, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
• At the time of the attack, eastern Ukraine was seething with multiple armed groups.
  — Washington Post, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2018
• The video rolls as Barakat approaches the door to record the exchange with his often-seething neighbor.
  — NBC News, 13 June 2019
• TobyMac rapped from a small stage in the middle of an arena floor, seething.
  — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2020
• That’s more than can be said for the white townsfolk, who seethe and tremble from a careful distance.
  — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 28 June 2018
• Players in the postgame locker were seething about being tired of losing.
  — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 16 Oct. 2019
• Whitecaps seethed and simmered on the ocean; gulls somersaulted in the squally air.
  — Aaron Hicklin, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
• By night, the pampered Midge turns into a malcontent, seething against the confines of her fairy-tale life.
  — Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2018
• Overseen: In the fifth, JaCoby Jones struck out looking and seethed.
  — Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 2 June 2018
• The wave of moral outrage passes, the news cycle moves on, and Black and brown people continue to seethe.
  — John Blake, CNN, 2 May 2023
• While a very real part of me was seething, another part was smiling as each rep of a heavy deadlift crashed to the ground.
  — Alyssa Ages, SELF, 13 Sep. 2023
• Scherzer seethed over the violation, but there was an inning to work, outs to get.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 9 Aug. 2023
• Her parents drank, her mother yelled and her father seethed.
  — Sabrina Tavernise, New York Times, 24 June 2019
• At the same time, tensions with Russia seethed—and continue to smolder on.
  — Natasha Frost, Quartzy, 31 Aug. 2019
• Some will seethe at the spire as an icon of arrogance, pointlessly pointing to the heavens.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 7 June 2021
• With Asia weeping and RuPaul seething, this was easily the most intense moment of the night.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 21 June 2018
• At the time of the attack in July 2014, the battlefield in eastern Ukraine was seething with different armed groups.
  — Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 24 May 2018
• All of this is going on as America seethes and riots over civil rights and the Vietnam War.
  — George Petras, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2018
• Once unleashed, the seething tone seemed to gather momentum.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2023
• The post earned Trump a gag order, setting in motion a parallel fight that left him seething at the limits a judge can impose on a defendant.
  — Graham Kates, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2023

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seethe

2 of 2 noun

• All the elders can do is sit back and listen, and seethe in silence.
  — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2021
• Carson Daly’s enjoying watching Blake seethe a little bit over letting this guy go.
  — Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 1 Dec. 2020
• Khloé’s sisters and mom rally around her — and seethe at Thompson in confessional interviews.
  — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2020
• Rebecca Hall and Tim Roth seethe and circle as a former couple with an extremely bad past in this super-tense Sundance thriller about stalking and obsession.
  — Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 13 May 2022
• Australia's seethes at proposal to move BHP Billiton listing.
  — Bloomberg.com, 4 May 2017
• There’s also the sheer pressure of time in quiet, contemplative sequences—walking, driving, fishing—that seethe with latent violence.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 1 June 2021
• Even the seemingly trivial minutes as father and son wait for the bus seethe with dramatic energy: the father, Ganapathy (played by Karuththadaiyaan), buys a pack of cigarettes from a vender at a kiosk—and nothing for his son, Velu (Chellapandi).
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2021
• Some studies go as far as to identify innate, psychological differences that explain why liberals are more likely to laugh while conservatives are more prone to seethe.
  — Matt Sienkiewicz, The Conversation, 24 Sep. 2021
• All the elders can do is sit back and listen, and seethe in silence.
  — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2021
• Carson Daly’s enjoying watching Blake seethe a little bit over letting this guy go.
  — Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 1 Dec. 2020
• Khloé’s sisters and mom rally around her — and seethe at Thompson in confessional interviews.
  — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2020
• Rebecca Hall and Tim Roth seethe and circle as a former couple with an extremely bad past in this super-tense Sundance thriller about stalking and obsession.
  — Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 13 May 2022
• Australia's seethes at proposal to move BHP Billiton listing.
  — Bloomberg.com, 4 May 2017
• There’s also the sheer pressure of time in quiet, contemplative sequences—walking, driving, fishing—that seethe with latent violence.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 1 June 2021
• Even the seemingly trivial minutes as father and son wait for the bus seethe with dramatic energy: the father, Ganapathy (played by Karuththadaiyaan), buys a pack of cigarettes from a vender at a kiosk—and nothing for his son, Velu (Chellapandi).
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2021
• Some studies go as far as to identify innate, psychological differences that explain why liberals are more likely to laugh while conservatives are more prone to seethe.
  — Matt Sienkiewicz, The Conversation, 24 Sep. 2021

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