How to Use rage in a Sentence

rage

1 of 2 noun
  • Her note to him was full of rage.
  • His rages rarely last more than a few minutes.
  • He was shaking with rage.
  • She was seized by a murderous rage.
  • Some rage tracks, drill, and new stuff too.
    Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025
  • All of it is so charged by rage and shame.
    Dawnie Jefferson, Refinery29, 29 Jan. 2026
  • This was the year of rot, slop and rage.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The past year has shown us where unchecked rage leads.
    Margie Warrell, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • All of my rage and fear and wonder.
    Literary Hub, 1 June 2026
  • But Agnes does not know them and erupts in rage.
    Andy Hoglund, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Why is car rental rage so rampant right now?
    Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2026
  • And that rage, our rage, does exist.
    Juan A. Ramírez, Vogue, 8 May 2026
  • She's so blinded by that anger and that rage.
    EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Morello, of course, brought the rage.
    Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 30 Jan. 2026
  • In pop culture, this was the year of rot, slop and rage.
    Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Hazel, her eyes taking on a blind look, was pale with rage.
    Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2026
  • In the 1940s, lobotomies were all the rage.
    Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
  • There’s no way this will end in bloodshed, tears, and rage, right?
    Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 1 May 2026
  • Full-body MRIs are all the rage.
    David Oliver, USA Today, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Which brings us back to Trump’s rage-posting.
    David Frum, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The books and the show are all the rage on social media.
    Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 28 May 2026
  • How to break the car rental rage cycle Don't get mad.
    Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2026
  • There is no talk of dismantling it, or rage.
    Tembe Denton-Hurst, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Over the years, wallpaper has been all the rage.
    Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Remember when gray floors were all the rage?
    Sarah Lyon, The Spruce, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The most are those who have met their match and are too blinded by rage to see it.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The woman is full of rage that will be quelled only with blood.
    Vulture, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Genius dazzles down the ages, but so do fits of rage.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The rally monkey was all the rage.
    Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
  • And flatter structures are all the rage right now.
    Claire Zillman, Fortune, 30 May 2026

rage

2 of 2 verb
  • The fire raged for hours.
  • The manager raged at the umpire.
  • She raged about the injustice of their decision.
  • A storm was raging outside, but we were warm and comfortable indoors.
  • And the war in Ukraine rages on.
    Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The war in Ukraine has raged far too long.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The war, then, will likely rage on.
    Dmytro Kuleba, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Or to be safe and dry as a storm rages outside?
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Still the legal tug-of-war raged on.
    Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The debate over Tylenol and autism has raged for years.
    Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Total terror raged for a month or more.
    Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The losses mounted, and still the fire raged.
    New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
  • He’s been raging about it ever since.
    Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2026
  • His humans searched for him as the blaze raged, but came up empty.
    Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The flames raged on the third and fourth floors before spreading to the roof.
    Riley Rourke, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Debates rage about El Tri, too.
    Jack Lang, New York Times, 1 June 2026
  • Today, 150 men sit trapped as the war rages around them.
    Cecilia Vega, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The rest of the crew cowered at the table while the fight raged on just an arm’s length away.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Debate has raged for decades over whether the exemptions are fair.
    Todd Richmond, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Russia's war in Ukraine, which Trump once vowed to end, rages on.
    Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR, 14 June 2026
  • Neighbors alerted each other as the fire raged on their block.
    Morgan Rynor, CBS News, 5 May 2026
  • Here’s hoping Raye keeps that fire raging.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Iranians describe their fears and hopes as the war rages around them.
    Sarah Baniak, ABC News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • And don’t forget lots of ice to keep the cocktail chilled as the party rages on.
    Gia Yetikyel, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2023
  • As the fires rage on, firefighters on the ground are grieving their dead.
    Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
  • The group’s growth threatens to stoke the city’s already-raging fire.
    Christina Buttons, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2026
  • There was such conflict raging within me.
    Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 3 Nov. 2025
  • World War two is raging in Europe.
    Marcy Thompson, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Even raging against what the Academy got wrong is part of the fun.
    Erin Neil, New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Wildfires are raging across Texas.
    Mary Wasson, Austin American Statesman, 26 Feb. 2026

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