fumed

Example Sentences

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The play earned O’Neill his second Pulitzer Prize for drama, but he fumed at the way critics accused him of copping out with what seemed to them a happy ending.

From Los Angeles Times

“Now I shall have to waste part of my salary on clothes, which I hardly need,” she fumed, although it was not really true, for the elbows of her sleeves were worn rather thin.

From Literature

“Next to the elephant’s-foot umbrella stand, he says. Why, the cheek!” the admiral fumed.

From Literature

“Awful, clumsy, incompetent workmen! I shall have them all fired,” she fumed.

From Literature

“He treated me like a little boy,” Kennedy fumed.

From Literature