ferocious
Example Sentences
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Paul in early January, it faced a ferocious backlash.
Doc walked through the doorway with a ferocious look on her face.
From Literature
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Adam Baron, a fellow at the New America think tank, said despite the "ferocious" public attacks, "there's still a bit of a ways to go" before a full-blown rupture.
From Barron's
Even when the bus swerved, which it did constantly, the hawk didn’t sway with it, just gripped a little tighter, his tiny, ferocious hawk face glaring straight ahead.
From Literature
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They're now countering on an unprecedented scale - a ferocious security crackdown and near total internet shutdown has been unleashed on a scale unseen in previous crises.
From BBC
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