Example Sentences

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The sun was a violent, rageful red, glowing like a stop sign through the murky haze.

From Slate • Jan. 16, 2025

I don't wanna have to be rageful on stage all the time.

From Salon • May 14, 2024

Audiences might expect it’s a bombastic speech or a tearful moment of heartbreak or a rageful tantrum.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2024

In a 2020 interview with The New Yorker, she said a lack of paid sick-leave and the declining well-being of the working class still gave her “grim and rageful thoughts.”

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2022

The volcano, rageful and belligerent, bellowed and rumbled and spat, trying to hock them free.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill