raged; raging
Synonyms
Examples of rage in a Sentence
Noun
Her note to him was full of rage.
He was shaking with rage.
She was seized by a murderous rage.
His rages rarely last more than a few minutes.
Verb
She raged about the injustice of their decision.
The manager raged at the umpire.
A storm was raging outside, but we were warm and comfortable indoors.
The fire raged for hours.
Recent Examples on the Web
David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2024
DiCaprio’s character, the actor Rick Darlton, has an over-the-top meltdown over forgetting his lines and trashes his trailer in a fit of rage.
—Zack Sharf, Variety, 5 Apr. 2024
Their carefree fun is quickly juxtaposed with a burst of rage in a doctor’s office, as Suada (Alina Serban), with Marinca’s Dita by her side, explodes at a bored, negligent doctor.
—Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Police Chief Christopher Bailey said during a news conference Monday that the shooting was not a sudden act of rage.
—Doha Madani, NBC News, 1 Apr. 2024
Does a different kind of rage come out of you on game day?
—Susan Miller Degnan, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2024
These sets were all the rage at the time, but her suits worn in the office were merely a facet of her character’s arc as an antagonist.
—Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 25 Mar. 2024
The merger of Digital World and Trump Media, first proposed in October 2021, is one of the more high-profile deals to emerge from a strategy that many companies used to go public that was all the rage during the pandemic.
—Matthew Goldstein, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
But its passage through the House was more fraught than the vote total might appear: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) bucked the chamber’s rules to force the bill past far-right roadblocks, unleashing rage among some conservatives and slackening Johnson’s leadership grasp.
—Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
Reuters, NBC News, 11 Apr. 2024
The Marriott closed in March 2020 as the pandemic raged.
—Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2024
But as of Wednesday, Johnson said details on a measure to provide assistance to Ukraine as Russia's invasion rages on were still being worked out.
—Lauren Peller, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2024
But for swaths of Gaza, where fighting continues to rage between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants, a much more intricate level of coordination is required.
—Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2024
Few readers would have had the means or motivation to heed Williams’ call, especially as the Revolutionary War raged on.
—Yaakov Zinberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
But while Port-au-Prince is burning, Haiti’s political parties and power brokers are engulfed in a raging struggle of their own over names, titles and control of government ministries.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2024
But debate has raged over the effectiveness of the emergency measures that some described as a knee-jerk response to complex social issues.
—Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 29 Mar. 2024
Today, 200 brands are owed money and cannot access unsold inventory, and a furious customer base rages online about accessing orders or making returns.
—Elizabeth Paton, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
Noun
But all of that stuff is connected, and so much of my rage over these divisions made it into this film.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2024
DiCaprio’s character, the actor Rick Darlton, has an over-the-top meltdown over forgetting his lines and trashes his trailer in a fit of rage.
—Zack Sharf, Variety, 5 Apr. 2024
Their carefree fun is quickly juxtaposed with a burst of rage in a doctor’s office, as Suada (Alina Serban), with Marinca’s Dita by her side, explodes at a bored, negligent doctor.
—Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Police Chief Christopher Bailey said during a news conference Monday that the shooting was not a sudden act of rage.
—Doha Madani, NBC News, 1 Apr. 2024
Does a different kind of rage come out of you on game day?
—Susan Miller Degnan, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2024
These sets were all the rage at the time, but her suits worn in the office were merely a facet of her character’s arc as an antagonist.
—Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 25 Mar. 2024
The merger of Digital World and Trump Media, first proposed in October 2021, is one of the more high-profile deals to emerge from a strategy that many companies used to go public that was all the rage during the pandemic.
—Matthew Goldstein, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
But its passage through the House was more fraught than the vote total might appear: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) bucked the chamber’s rules to force the bill past far-right roadblocks, unleashing rage among some conservatives and slackening Johnson’s leadership grasp.
—Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
Verb
Unconfirmed footage shared on social media showed a fire raging at the large Soviet-era facility and black smoke belching out of it.
—Reuters, NBC News, 11 Apr. 2024
The Marriott closed in March 2020 as the pandemic raged.
—Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2024
But as of Wednesday, Johnson said details on a measure to provide assistance to Ukraine as Russia's invasion rages on were still being worked out.
—Lauren Peller, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2024
But for swaths of Gaza, where fighting continues to rage between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants, a much more intricate level of coordination is required.
—Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2024
Few readers would have had the means or motivation to heed Williams’ call, especially as the Revolutionary War raged on.
—Yaakov Zinberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
But while Port-au-Prince is burning, Haiti’s political parties and power brokers are engulfed in a raging struggle of their own over names, titles and control of government ministries.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2024
But debate has raged over the effectiveness of the emergency measures that some described as a knee-jerk response to complex social issues.
—Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 29 Mar. 2024
Today, 200 brands are owed money and cannot access unsold inventory, and a furious customer base rages online about accessing orders or making returns.
—Elizabeth Paton, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
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