Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "raging"

Lexicographically close words:
raggedness; raggie; ragging; raght; ragi; ragione; ragman; ragout; ragpicker; rags
  1. In countryes strange, both farre and neere, All raging foes her force doth feare.

  2. These particulars were repeated to the crowd outside, which filled the whole Place, and was in a state of raging fury; till at last the officers in charge made their appearance and commenced a more regular examination.

  3. He had sickened from the poison, yet refused to give up to the disease, until the fever was raging in his veins.

  4. Sidenote: 1643] While the civil war was raging in England, Louis XIII.

  5. In July the regiment proceeded to Old Brandenburg, and on its arrival, a pestilential disease raging in the city, the regiment was ordered to encamp in the fields.

  6. And so those two waifs drove off in the raging waves.

  7. The raging water burst into the basement of the building, and ran off in a shoreless river toward the Potomac.

  8. The Hudson, set backward on its course, rushed northward with a raging bore at its head that swelled higher until it licked the feet of the rock chimneys of the Palisades.

  9. I could not shoot on account of the dog, and the raging brute dashed over the prairie, holding Trusty in the air, who only every now and then was able to touch the ground with his feet.

  10. The jurymen, raging with thirst, soon lapped up the whole.

  11. While that war was raging in the British Isles, what might not Lewis attempt on the Continent?

  12. When war was actually raging in the kingdom a mutineer or a deserter might be tried by a military tribunal and executed by the Provost Marshal.

  13. Queensberry observed that their reports would lead any person, who had not been a witness of the tumult, to believe that a sedition as formidable as that of Masaniello had been raging at Edinburgh.

  14. While the war was raging in the Middle and Southern States," proceeded Grandfather, "Massachusetts had leisure to settle a new constitution of government instead of the royal charter.

  15. A new War between France and England had broken out in 1702, and had been raging ever since.

  16. By the time that Lafayette appeared, roused from untimely slumber, his men were masters of the Palace, and stood between the royal family and the raging mob of baffled murderers.

  17. As the cart moved slowly through the raging streets, he said to her, "You must find the way long.

  18. He was greatly vexed, and went to the war then raging between Scotland and Denmark, to drown his sorrow by activity and danger.

  19. He is said to have killed an angry lion, to have held by the heels a raging bull and thrown it helpless at his feet, to have stopped a chariot in full career, etc.

  20. The mother, in her distraction, threw herself headlong from a lofty precipice, and Lord Randolph went to the war then raging between Denmark and Scotland.

  21. Raging furiously, the Rakshasa tore up a tree, and Bhima rose leisurely and waited until it was flung at him.

  22. In the far distant time, when he had been amidst the world of men, he had known how to utter the words that burned, and charm to stillness a raging multitude.

  23. It was a summer of raging trades which seemed to lift the sand dunes from their foundations and hurl them through the choking city.

  24. The fire that Tony lit in the grass at Barellan would have been of no value in saving the station had not another been lit farther away and nearer the onward rushing line of raging fury.

  25. A mighty eygre reared his crest, And uppe the Lindis raging sped.

  26. The gold fever is, indeed, a rampant, raging disease which few can withstand.

  27. Scarcely twenty yards away fully a score of tall, bemuffled warriors were speeding towards us, silent and grim, like a raging Nemesis.

  28. They were to the south and above his altitude, and when he jerked his gaze up that way he saw two huge raging balls of flame arc out across the sky and down, leaving behind long tails of winking sparks.

  29. They didn't see him in the light of the raging flame, but they would have in the next split second.

  30. Raging like a tiny fiend, Jerry found himself picked up by the neck, half- throttled, and flung through the air.

  31. Jerry did not know drunkenness, but he did know unfairness; and it was with raging indignation that he knew it.

  32. By this time Jerry had become a raging little demon.

  33. But that was otherwise accounted for when they left the mine; for they stepped out into a tremendous storm which was raging all over the mountain.

  34. From the state of the brooks, now swollen into raging torrents, it was evident that the storm had been storming all day.

  35. And how is it that you are out at such an early hour, prowling about like a raging lion looking for its breakfast?

  36. It was only a sample of what the day held in store for the captain, and before it was half over he was reduced to a condition of raging impotence.

  37. Mr. Vyner noticed it, too, and, raging inwardly against a tongue which was always striving after his undoing, began with a chastened air to criticise the architecture of the new chapel in Porter Street.

  38. The next year, 1776, Piccinni was called to Paris as an unwilling conscript in the musical revolution, which was raging no less fiercely than the American Revolution of the same time.

  39. He landed there in the very midst of the tempest raging around Gluck.

  40. He was hysterical bedlamite--unmanned man--raging tiger of jealousy .

  41. I should think you could see that for yourself," he said impatiently, raging with the second tie.

  42. Asa was in a rage when he imprisoned the prophet (a fit work for a raging man).

  43. Even Asa will be raging wrathful, and imprison the prophet that reprehendeth his sin, 2 Chron.

  44. And those that flatter them as glorious conquerors, do but stir up the fire of their pride, to make more ruins and calamities in the earth, and do the work of a raging pestilence.

  45. Bid but a neighbour speak some hard speeches of him, or one of his family neglect or cross him, and he is presently like the raging sea, whose waves cast up the mire and dirt.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "raging" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.