ferociously
Example Sentences
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But his stunning effort swerved ferociously and crashed into the top corner past Alisson's full-stretch dive.
From BBC • May 28, 2026
Dan Schlosberg’s seven-player arrangement of Barber’s technicolor orchestration, conducted by Mr. Ashworth, was clever but mostly loud with prominent trumpet and trombone, contributing to a musical performance that had just one gear: ferociously strident intensity.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
The Major League Baseball Players Association has spent decades ferociously fighting against a salary cap, viewing it only as a mechanism designed to suppress salaries without addressing competition.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
Nearly every line in the film’s ferociously hilarious first hour is like Jane Austen reborn as a shock jock, until Song runs out of material and starts repeating herself.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2025
She was pulling so ferociously on the door that I wouldn’t have been surprised to see a three- hundred-pound sumo wrestler on the other side.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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