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Examples of rage in a Sentence
Mohamad El Chamaa, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2023
Its glimmers of comic rage and generous helpings of battlefield carnage, though patchily entertaining on their own, never coalesce into a coherent reason for being.
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2023
Jersey, who’s white, has called the cops on Knuck, and Ali is sick with rage at her mother and dread for her lover.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2023
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With ’90s fashion all the rage, Fennell made a conscious decision to move Saltburn closer to present day, beginning the film in the fall of 2006.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 17 Nov. 2023
Prosecutors said Armstrong, 35, gunned down the 25-year-old Wilson in a jealous rage.
—CBS News, 17 Nov. 2023
Gravediggers are in high demand across Gaza as the war rages, but danger and dwindling supplies hamper their work.
—Yasmine Salam, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2023
Human bodies, on the other hand, tend to store up rage and grief and panic like a pressure cooker.
—Rachel Sherman Lanna Apisukh, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
The joy of anger Anger is often shunned as a dangerous and disruptive emotion but, according to a new study in the Journal of Personality and Psychology, rage can actually be a strong motivator for work.
—Byeamon Barrett, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2023
Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 24 Nov. 2023
Joséphine asks Napoleon as the decadent party rages on behind them.
—Nathan Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
The source of the strike on the Indonesian Hospital could not be independently verified, because heavy fighting raged around it.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 21 Nov. 2023
As storms raged overnight, many of those outside the warehouse who had been sheltering in tents lost them to the wind.
—Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
The street-by-street battles over the posters have turned into a cultural flashpoint in the U.S. as the war between Israel and Hamas rages with no end in sight.
—Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2023
The militants also kidnapped 240 people, mostly Israeli citizens, triggering a war that has raged for the past month.
—Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2023
Meanwhile, gunfire and explosions raged Monday around Gaza City's main hospital, Shifa, which has been encircled by Israeli troops for days.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 14 Nov. 2023
So why do people rage over ExxonMobil’s profits, but say absolutely nothing about Google’s?
—Robert Rapier, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
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Word History
Noun
Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin rabia, from Latin rabies rage, madness, from rabere to be mad; akin to Sanskrit rabhas violence
Noun
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Verb
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Rage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rage. Accessed 3 Dec. 2023.
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