How to Use wrathful in a Sentence

wrathful

adjective

• The title refers to a wrathful landlord, Mr. Sunshine, who has rooms to let.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
• In Salinger’s, the wrathful recluse determined to give his readers nothing more.
  — Benjamin Taylor, The Atlantic, 21 Apr. 2020
• The card read 'A crest to commemorate your big win against the deadliest of foes, the wrathful Widow-Maker.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 22 Mar. 2018
• Adulterous wives pay men to stand in as their lovers to apologize to their wrathful husbands.
  — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 17 Dec. 2020
• Those holy words come from a wrathful place, admonishing the sinners to revel in their own rebuke.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 21 Sep. 2017
• Dmitri Shostakovich lived and composed under the threat of official reprimand or worse from a volatile and wrathful leader.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 28 Apr. 2018
• Still reeling from the death of her mother, Kela finds a magical comb near the ocean that summons a wrathful mermaid that will grant her a wish — but at a dangerous price.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2022
• Specifically, Twitter is Dante’s fifth circle of hell, in which the wrathful fight endlessly in ships on the River Styx while the sullen gurgle in the muck until the world ends.
  — Abby Ohlheiser, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2019
• Even so, his wrathful attempt to overturn the result of a free, fair election qualifies as shocking.
  — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 11 Dec. 2020
• Circe’s reckless and bloodstained niece, Medea, arrives once, her wrathful father not far behind.
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• His story seemed to confirm the existence of a wrathful nemesis stalking the family.
  — James Lasdun, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
• The Nazi Reich is collapsing all around them, and they, like hundreds of thousands, are fleeing the wrathful Soviet advance.
  — M. T. Anderson, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2016
• King David appears to exhibit an almost superhuman equanimity in the face of the death of his son, whose life was taken by a wrathful and vengeful God — and David’s first act after the killing of his son is to go to worship the killer.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 18 July 2019
• At her most powerful, Maleficent is also her least wrathful.
  — Jeanna Kadlec, Longreads, 8 Oct. 2020
• It’s one of Hopkins’s finest performances, by turns wrathful and befuddled, helpless and defiant.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2021
• The sometimes savage themes of her paintings have been interpreted as expressions of wrathful catharsis.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
• Everything about the DIs—their cuffed sleeves and wide belt, their boots, their campaign cover tilted to a severe angle—is meant to communicate a wrathful-God sort of authority.
  — Alex French, Esquire, 11 Jan. 2017
• In addition to unveiling the poster art, the panel revealed that one of the characters will have an (as yet unspecified) connection to one of the franchise's most famous wrathful villains.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2022
• At Madoff’s sentencing in June 2009, wrathful former clients stood to demand the maximum punishment.
  — Michael Balsamo and Tom Hays, Chron, 14 Apr. 2021
• For example, the Dalai Lama has navigated the modern world while consulting on all matters of import with oracles possessed by wrathful deities.
  — Donald S. Lopez, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2020
• Kapogiannis asks me 70 in all, covering subject matter from God as being angry and wrathful to God as being loving, with a variety of topics in between.
  — David Ewing Duncan, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2019
• While Alonso de Santos is none too convincing when Segismundo turns wrathful or virtuous, the actor does ace moments of pathos, when the prince huddles twitchily in his jail cell, fidgeting with his chains.
  — Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2019
• His eyes smolder like burning coals in anticipation of the violence that his wrathful mission will inevitably entail.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2021
• Like Hotei, Daikokuten underwent significant transformations in Japan, from a wrathful protector to a jolly god of wealth.
  — Megan Bryson, The Conversation, 4 Jan. 2023
• Their disclosure also made Snowden a fugitive from a wrathful U.S. government.
  — Danielle Chapman, The Atlantic, 16 May 2017
• While my beat is usually non-wrathful grapes, my curiosity dragged me into this literary mystery.
  — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 21 June 2021
• At Madoff’s sentencing in 2009, wrathful former clients stood to demand the maximum punishment.
  — Michael Balsamo, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Apr. 2021
• His most religious album to date, its 14 tracks are populated with countless references to scripture, both direct and indirect, each conjuring the image of a wrathful god.
  — Irvin Weathersby, Esquire, 20 Apr. 2017
• Satellite images showed a wrathful planet, raging with defiance.
  — Chantel Acevedo, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2017
• Mack had a rough childhood marred by domestic violence, forging his understanding of God as wrathful, punishing and judgmental.
  — Katie Walsh, Orange County Register, 2 Mar. 2017

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024