enrage

Example Sentences

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After all, what could enrage reactionaries more than a confident, gender-bending, anti-colonial Puerto Rican performing in Spanish on the country’s most mythologized stage?

From Salon • Feb. 12, 2026

These predictions—and still more disturbing ones—both confuse and enrage Oedipus, and lead him to accuse Creon of unseemly ambition and betrayal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

That would clearly enrage Mexico, with consequences that would extend far beyond a willingness to cooperate on the issues of drug trafficking.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2024

The arrival of the USS Ronald Reagan is expected to enrage North Korea, which views the deployment of such a powerful U.S. military asset as a major security threat.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 11, 2023

She hesitated, conscious that in answering she would be offering a form of defense, a rationale, and that it might enrage him further.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan