ferocious
Example Sentences
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The velvet was soft and the inner lining held a secret pocket, which Nine had explained was for emergency food, because if human children didn’t eat constantly, they became ferocious beasts.
From Literature
What in fact kills patients is the ferocious overreaction of their immune systems, which cause widespread blood clotting and organ failure.
Scream queen Samara Weaving has an extraordinary yell: shrill, feral and ferocious, like a mongoose before it goes on the attack.
From Los Angeles Times
He was no longer a cub; he was a ferocious young wolf defending his pack-brother.
From Literature
OpenAI and Anthropic have taken steps toward public listings that could take place as soon as this year, plans that have added extra urgency to the ferocious competition between the two companies.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
