Example Sentences

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“What’s getting these guys so apoplectically mad is how loved our music is,” Adams said.

From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2020

That way lies a life of apoplectically watching Question Time and raging at the dying of the polite.

From The Guardian • Aug. 17, 2019

Goodman, who plays Sheriff Hartman, puts on a festival of mugging — his eyes apoplectically bulging, his pants being hoisted over his girth as a comedic exclamation point.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2016

Bone At Uniontown, Pa., three-year-old Betty Coughanour's eyes popped; her face flamed apoplectically; her mouth gaped.

From Time Magazine Archive

Up the walk, from the road, came running an apoplectically red and puffing man of late middle age;—a man whose face bore traces of lather; and who was swathed in a purple bathrobe.

From Further Adventures of Lad by Terhune, Albert Payson