Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "wrath"

Lexicographically close words:
wras; wrasse; wrastle; wrastled; wrastling; wrathe; wrathful; wrathfull; wrathfully; wraththe
  1. Hidden from the wrath of Winter, have they not squatted patiently round the primitive, smokeless fire of the mystic depths?

  2. And we are assured that the Boss did not remain immobile as be spurted forth this mixture of wrath and wisdom, nor did the stogies; for moved by his own words, he rose promptly to his feet.

  3. It is a city that enticed and still entices the mighty of the earth; Roman Emperors in the past came to appease the wrath of its gods, a German Emperor to-day comes to pilfer its temples.

  4. In Greek tragedy the powers of fate assumed mythical forms: the wrath of the gods, the disfavor of evil spirits, disastrous oracles.

  5. The wrath of Rolland's opponents, of which the only remaining record is a pile of pamphlets, bears witness to the heroism of him who was the first to take his stand "above the battle.

  6. When wrath remains powerless, the spirit of mockery is still in being, and can be shot like a fire-arrow across the darkening world.

  7. Johnson's wrath was evidently appeased by the complaisance shown by leading men of the South.

  8. The wrath of both men was fully aroused, and the controversy closed by leaving them enemies for life--unreconciled, irreconcilable.

  9. Does not the murder of Lincoln appease the vengeance and wrath of the opponents of this Government?

  10. The wrath of man was made to praise the righteous works of God.

  11. Wherefore there was wrath in his soul when he went on board and gave the order to cast loose.

  12. How long, O goddess whom I know and whom I know not, shall the wrath of thy heart be unappeased?

  13. He vented his wrath at the escape of Xisuthros and his family upon the Igigi or angels, who, as spirits, were more under his control than the gods.

  14. The lord in the wrath of his heart has regarded me; god has visited me in the anger of his heart; the goddess has been violent against me, and has put me to grief.

  15. They are the questions put to the penitent in order that the priest may discover why the wrath of the gods has fallen upon him.

  16. They may now have the satisfaction of thinking that, in spite of themselves, those impious plaudits have been turned by the wrath of God into hisses.

  17. In his wrath Attilio's voice had risen until he literally shouted.

  18. Or could a painter have witnessed that silent assembly, he would have found a subject for a splendid picture of deep-seated wrath and terror.

  19. The priests were in mortal terror lest the thread by which the sword of popular wrath was suspended should be cut.

  20. Their principal wrath was exercised against religious houses and persons.

  21. The wrath of the Duke was even greater than his surprise.

  22. It was Philip's enthusiasm to embody the wrath of God against heretics.

  23. It was Alva's enthusiasm to embody the wrath of Philip.

  24. His breath was eager, his blood was on fire and in his fierce wrath he intended to yield himself to the boiling heat of sensual passion.

  25. In his thoughts he knelt always before that ineffaceable image, which struck him to the earth with a flame of divine wrath in her eyes.

  26. These are they who suffer the wrath of God on the earth.

  27. When shall our motions and delight Be free from wrath and strife?

  28. That is the word of Ras al Had, and, though no pledge to an infidel is binding, may the wrath of Allah fall on me if I break this one.

  29. He would be compelled to state where he obtained the disguise, and that would turn the wrath of the enraged Moslems against old Abraham.

  30. Bright hope you bring and vigour back To minds outworn upon the rack, And put such courage in the brain As makes the poor be men again, Whom neither tyrants' wrath affrights Nor all their bristling satellites.

  31. There once more you have the unpredictable Celtic temperament--obscenity of wrath dissolving in the tenderness of unbidden tears, fond regret stung suddenly to a rage foul and unscrupulous.

  32. For though he had spent the whole day in listening, he had scarcely heard a word of blame for the scene which had roused him to wrath that morning.

  33. Almost instantly the whole truth of the transaction seemed to rush upon her mind, and her wrath was inconceivably violent.

  34. I am very much amazed that she accepted Mrs. Mirvan's invitation, as she was in such wrath yesterday.

  35. She fanned herself in an emotion made up of wrath and grief and dignity, glancing at me from time to time, and looking away again with an expression of disdain, which was hard for an innocent man to bear.

  36. I could simply retire to my own apartments; but I did it in such a passion of wrath and impotence that I could have taken that stupid and credulous old woman by the shoulders and shaken her to reason.

  37. A sudden gust of wrath swept through me, and blew away before it the last sense of compunction in my mind.

  38. But I was horrified, and I can't even write about it now without the old wrath and disgust and shame.

  39. And he said that Gymbert and his men would hide till Offa's wrath was past.

  40. Across the Welsh border might indeed be the safest place for any man who had brought the wrath of the queen on him.

  41. Keep your wrath for those who are not yet named.

  42. She held out her hand to me, and I bent and kissed it; and on the white wrist I saw the blue marks of the clutch of the wild men, which made a great wrath rise in my heart straightway.

  43. Wherefore Gymbert, if he cared aught for the wrath of the Church, might be desperate, and would heed little whom he destroyed, so that he ended those he meant to harm.

  44. Now Offa had turned angrily as he heard Sighard speak to the queen in no courteous wise, but Erling had not heeded his look or what wrath might light on him.

  45. Then I said, with a cold wrath on me, "At whose orders was this done?

  46. Yea Lord, I fear the swiftness of thy heart, Thine edgèd wrath and more than royal soul.

  47. When from that deadly light Zeus saved the babe, and up to Olympus' height Raised him, and Hera's wrath would cast him thence Then Zeus devised him a divine defence.

  48. Grant likewise that he find through all his streets Loud scorn, this man of wrath and bitter threats That made Thebes tremble, led in woman's guise.

  49. Hither with lifted sword, Justice, Wrath of the Lord, Come in our visible need!

  50. But should this Theban town Essay with wrath and battle to drag down My maids, lo, in their path myself shall be, And maniac armies battled after me!

  51. The village folk in wrath took spear and sword, And turned upon the Bacchae.

  52. And this King, he bit his lips and straight Fell on and bound it, hoof and limb, with gasping wrath and sweat.

  53. Adair, in his outburst, railing against governments in general now, calling down the wrath of the gods on the heads of all policemen, and expressing himself most forcibly on the subject of newspaper men in particular, attracted a crowd.

  54. Bess let the words out before she realized what she was doing, and the wrath of Adair MacKenzie descended upon her.

  55. Already, thanks to the guide of the morning, legends about him and his wrath were spreading around the place.

  56. The proletarians, driven to despair, will seize the torch which Stephens has preached to them; the vengeance of the people will come down with a wrath of which the rage of 1793 gives no true idea.

  57. It is easy to imagine the wrath aroused among the working-men by this reversal of all relations within the family, while the other social conditions remain unchanged.

  58. They are men so long only as they burn with wrath against the reigning class.


  59. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wrath" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    anger; annoyance; avarice; envy; fury; gluttony; greed; heat; indignation; ire; lust; mad; outrage; pride; rage; sloth; soreness; spleen; umbrage; wrath