ferocity
Example Sentences
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Until that point, he had been hitting his groundstrokes with his usual ferocity.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
Ultimate fighting cage matches, despite their ferocity, have set rules and time limits, and end with a clear winner and a loser.
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026
They haven’t piled into single stocks with the same ferocity, and instead they’ve put money into the market through index-tracking ETFs.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026
Ursula has shades of Gellar’s famous characters — Buffy’s physical ferocity, Kathryn Merteuil’s ruthless cattiness, Daphne Blake’s affinity for mysterious games — but doesn’t play to one exclusively.
From Salon • Mar. 26, 2026
She had pursued his prosecution with a strange ferocity, while Jack turned away, vanished into his Ministry the moment he was needed.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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