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Example sentences for "wrathful"

Lexicographically close words:
wrastle; wrastled; wrastling; wrath; wrathe; wrathfull; wrathfully; wraththe; wrathy; wreak
  1. All the Maori girls, from Rakope downwards, were as wrathful as such brown darlings could be.

  2. I come a victim to the wrathful counsels of Juno.

  3. God can't be wrathful: but we may conclude Wrathful He may be by similitude: God's wrathful said to be, when He doth do That without wrath which wrath doth force us to.

  4. Sweet virgin, that I do not set The pillars up of weeping jet Or mournful marble, let thy shade Not wrathful seem, or fright the maid Who hither at her wonted hours Shall come to strew thy earth with flowers.

  5. Love has yet no wrathful fit: If her patience turns to ire, Love is then consuming fire.

  6. More wrathful than ever, Mrs. Mudge bounced into her room and sat down in her dripping garments in a very uncomfortable frame of mind.

  7. But Palomides was sore wrathful and ashamed, and withdrew out of the field.

  8. The earl was wrathful to find that Geraint and Enid were gone, and rode hard after them with his knights.

  9. Tom read, and the wrathful scowl evoked by the foolish editorial gave place to a flitting smile of triumph.

  10. There was nothing more said, or to be said; but when they were gone and he was once more alone with Nan, he was fighting desperately with a very manlike desire to smash something; to relieve the wrathful pressure by hurting somebody.

  11. From that station to the top of the high, bare crag of righteous condemnation was but a short stage in the wrathful journey; and while he was choking over the meal of strange dishes the zealous under-thought was reaching out into the future.

  12. If Ralph Mohun had seen him, he would not have feared that the wrathful devil was cast out.

  13. He threw His wrathful hand aloft, and cried 'Away!

  14. And no doubt with a good deal of wrathful embellishment!

  15. He let one of his odd, rare laughs go with the last sentence, and for this reason Pauline merely gave him a magnificent frown instead of visiting upon him more wrathful reprimand.

  16. And as it always happened, that he had, Martha could do nothing but cast a wrathful glance at the boy and flounce from the room.

  17. And Judy, with a wrathful look in her eyes, was sitting on the nursery table, her knees touching her chin and her thin brown hands clasped round them.

  18. Rhoda had one of her fits of wrathful eloquence.

  19. To her own astonishment, Mary was overcome with an impulse of wrathful hostility, and spoke words which she regretted as soon as they had passed her lips.

  20. A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.

  21. Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.

  22. And then the speaker let forth a gust of wrathful language which his companion heard in sympathetic silence.

  23. Wrathful examination discovered nails as the opposing force--cleverly driven in the sashes so as almost to escape notice.

  24. Floundering into the hall, she now called out in wrathful discovery.

  25. His eyes were as stern as those of a wrathful god, and his lips as resolute as Thor.

  26. God made the sun to rise on the morning of that day; and God filled the sun with its heat; but it was wrathful to the man who was not prepared for it, and to no one else.

  27. An appeal to the light of reason must convince any unprejudiced mind that our heavenly Father is angry and wrathful toward no one, in the sense of willing evil to him, or of seeking an opportunity to do him mischief.

  28. And both Yudhishthira and Bhimasena who were seated there, beheld with wrathful eyes that outrage on Krishna by Kichaka.

  29. And those wrathful warriors--those ornaments of battle--fighting strictly according to established usage, displayed in that conflict various celestial weapons in due order.

  30. Vaisampayana continued, "Having listened to the words of the grandsire that tended to his own welfare, the wrathful king Duryodhana no longer eager for battle, drew a deep sigh and became silent.

  31. And then the warriors (of Kripa's division), desirous of rescuing the wrathful son of Saradwat encountered Partha from all sides and covered him with their arrows.

  32. Crooked and wrathful and of wicked soul, of prowess famed over all the world, sinful in deeds and highly cruel, that wretch, however, hath been slain by the Gandharvas.

  33. Then Hrungner saw the wrathful face of the god approaching, and saw, too, the upraised hammer; but he was too full of drunken courage to feel afraid.

  34. There was no need at present for independent wrathful eloquence.

  35. Yet even in my wrath a wild regret Mingles; a bitterness of jealous strife Tinges my fury as I foam and fret Against the borders of that calmer life, Beside whose course my wrathful course is set.

  36. It was brought; and now the Demon of Politics envied even the harmony arising from this Dutch concert, merely because there was not a wrathful note in the strange compound of sounds which it produced.

  37. Sally, said in a wrathful voice: "A queer one?

  38. Oh, he was properly wrathful at my spoiling his shot," cried the young man.

  39. As with a flash the wrathful cloud vanished.

  40. But Perceval took no note of their laughter, but rode up the hall to where Sir Kay the seneschal stood, wrathful at the outrage on the queen which he had not dared to avenge instantly.

  41. The Saracen's flaming sword broke upon my scull: balls in vain hissed upon me; the lightnings of battle glared harmless around my loins; in vain did the elephant trample on me, in vain the iron hoof of the wrathful steed!

  42. Committing herself to no statement of fact, in which her sister would not concur, Miss Westbrook was careful to say nothing that would make Shelley suspicious of his wife's goodness, or render him wrathful with Hogg.

  43. Darting a wrathful glance at Polcher, McGillivray bitterly reminded: “Hester was your trusted tool.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wrathful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acrimonious; angry; bilious; black; choleric; cross; dirty; evil; furious; heated; incensed; indignant; irate; livid; mad; pissed; riled; sore; tempestuous; wrathful; wroth