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Example sentences for "viciously"

Lexicographically close words:
vicini; vicinities; vicinity; vicino; vicious; viciousness; vicissim; vicissitude; vicissitudes; vicit
  1. The man thus adjured leaned back, and as Winters delivered a slow, easy ball he swung viciously and sent a smoking grounder straight for the pitcher's box.

  2. He swung viciously on the first ball that Bert offered him, which happened to be a fast in-curve.

  3. The first ball over the plate he slammed viciously at the pitcher, who stopped the ball, but fumbled it a few seconds, thus giving him a chance to get to first.

  4. They were all strong, well-grown lads, and striking blindly and viciously in the dark, had perhaps hit harder than they realised.

  5. We kept the Butterfly Man indoors for a week, while Westmoreland doctored a viciously black eye and sewed up his lip.

  6. So he cocked a knowing head, with a cruel beak full of egg, and flirted a splendid tail at his friend; then swallowed the last morsel and rowed viciously with Laurence and me; for the bluejay is wholly addicted to billingsgate.

  7. When at night around our camp fire we would relate to him the treachery of Kouaga, and our adventures in the hands of Samory and Prempeh, he would stir the embers viciously and call down the curse of Zomara upon them all.

  8. As he lay with eyes closed and a slight groan escaping from his lips at her feet, she suddenly raised her foot and kicked him viciously full in the face.

  9. While he lay there upon the floor, with his eyes closed before me, I kicked him viciously full in the face!

  10. The Orphan and his guns' crews on the wind'ard side would feel the ship quiver as a wave thudded against the casemate below them, and then had just time to duck their heads before millions of icy particles of spray soused viciously over them.

  11. He was viciously whipping a smaller man while four men held the small man a prisoner with his face to the wall of a big corrugated iron building.

  12. As I watched, suddenly this Man of the white face stood up from the grass just the shortest of gallops away, his thunder-stick roared, and something I could not see struck me most viciously in the shoulder.

  13. As we gained ground he gradually backed up to the edge of the cliff, snorting viciously but making no effort whatever either to escape along a lateral bench or to attack.

  14. I claimed my victory honestly; and as a man believing in himself and his personal rights, at a time when I was nervously unstrung and viciously attacked, I went away to rest, rather than deal in dirty defamation, alone.

  15. Here and there the hungry rocks were close to the surface, and over them the great waves broke, swirling viciously and spouting thirty and forty feet into the air.

  16. It was a sad sight, but my chief concern just then was the safety of the rudder, which was being attacked viciously by the ice.

  17. There the aggrieved Belgian saw him, and, maddened by drink, took advantage of his exhaustion to kick him viciously in the ribs; but Jones promptly laid the Dutchman out with a hand-spike.

  18. We leaned over the rail awhile and watched the tide clutching viciously at the piers as it swirled out, and then, farther up, I noticed a flock of ducks paddling about in a most delightful little mud-hole left by the falling tide.

  19. He made me even more nervous than I really was by walking up and down, up and down, and occasionally moving a chair as if he had run into it in his restless promenade and were pushing it viciously out of the way.

  20. I heard Corporal Cotton grind his heel viciously into the plank beneath him; and I answered, in desperation: "I do not know.

  21. Sir Lucius carried the unlucky picture under his arm, and he thumped the Pall Mall flagstones viciously with his stick; he walked like a reluctant martyr going to the stake.

  22. I ought to be satisfied with the blow I have dealt him, but if I get a chance to strike another--" A harsh laugh finished the sentence, and he hit out viciously with his stick at a cat perched on a garden wall.

  23. Now Rinkitink sprang forward to rescue his friend, but Cor kicked out viciously with her foot and struck the King squarely on his stomach--a very tender place to be kicked, especially if one is fat.

  24. Then he kicked out so viciously with his heels that he soon freed himself and dashed out of the doorway of the palace.

  25. When Bilbil paid no attention to the command and refused to stir, Kaliko kicked his heels viciously against the goat's body, and then Bilbil made a sudden start.

  26. She struck viciously when they let her up, but Joe had expected the attack and he dodged it.

  27. He caught up a fallen corn stalk, slashed viciously at the animal's rump, and the steer galloped off to join those in the oat field.

  28. My wounds sometimes set viciously to work to give me pain, but again would show mercy.

  29. She extended the paper to her brother, pinching him viciously under the table as he hesitated.

  30. Phoebe's eye was a little startled, and Bertha set her front teeth together on edge, and looked viciously at Juliana.

  31. He groaned, gave himself a slice under each ear, and viciously bit the end of the paper-knife.

  32. The door slammed viciously on Archie's arm as he landed on the running board.

  33. The face swam before his eyes and he pitched forward in his agitation, bumping his head viciously against the window.

  34. As the invaders broke line for the assault, he leaped at the Governor and swung at him viciously with a rifle.

  35. He had nearly finished this last task when a low growling was suddenly heard and the horse began to jump around and kick viciously with his heels.

  36. Why did you wickedly and viciously send the Rain of Stones to crack and break our houses?

  37. You are a stranger here except to York and that man Ponk--" Stella began, thrusting her hooks more viciously into her catch.

  38. Mrs. Bahrr hooked her eyes viciously into her caller.

  39. The result was that Sinbad had gone raving mad and Dane's hands were now covered with claw tears which ran viciously deep.

  40. At a wild shout of defiance Dane half turned to see the Salarik noble cast his net at sea level and then stab viciously with a well practiced blow.

  41. He winced and faltered, and Robert poked out viciously with his elbow.

  42. He's been smoking," Edith's voice declared viciously from somewhere in the background.

  43. She waved her hand in friendly thanks for the cigarette case which Francey tossed across to her, and, having selected her cigarette with blunt, viciously manicured fingers, poked Cosgrave for a match.

  44. And falling into a graceful fencing posture, the Viscount made his long, narrow blade flash and dart viciously while Sergeant Zebedee, taking himself by the chin, watched with the eye of a connoisseur.


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