Examples of seething in a Sentence
Ron Charles, Washington Post, 25 July 2023
Wack brings a seething force to his portrayal of writer-activist Ned Weeks, who’s based on Kramer himself.
—Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2023
But the particulars are incidental to Douglass’s seething outrage at the indignities of American bondage.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
Suddenly, pirouetting like a member of the Bolshoi Ballet, Red Sox outfielder Johnny Damon spun with the bubbly spilling out like a seething volcano, soaking my tape recorder in the sticky stuff.
—Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2023
Gilbert’s expressionistic drawing style brings a seething edge to the story and its violent culmination.
—Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2023
The town of Bria tails off into a refugee camp that is a seething shantytown of one-room structures spread over the hills.
—Roger Cohen Mauricio Lima, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2022
Former prisoners and staffers told the Globe that race is a seething issue — a mostly white staff supervises a predominantly Black and Hispanic population.
—BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2021
Plain chords come up against seething textures; a melody surges in and floats away.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
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Word History
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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