fierceness

Example Sentences

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Chemaf’s founder, Shiraz Virji, son of a Zanzibar spice merchant, once hired dozens of Gurkhas, Nepalese soldiers with a reputation for fierceness, to guard one of the company’s mines against incursions by informal miners.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

“The fierceness and price and cost demands of China’s markets make the winners emerging from here far more globally fit than most any other country’s environment will produce.”

From Barron's • Nov. 7, 2025

The fierceness of the defence obviously stayed with Goldie - he later saw a poodle and hastily flew away.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2025

To generalize, we might describe Thracian art as embodying a barbaric style — not as a term of derision but merely descriptive of a blunt, skillful fierceness so often encountered in its forms.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2025

It’s the way she’s looking at Rosa with not only love, but a kind of fierceness, too, like she would do anything to protect her.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon