ferocious

Example Sentences

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The noise here for competitive games is ferocious.

From BBC

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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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