as in enraged
feeling or showing anger my sister gets really angry and practically throws a tantrum if her soccer team loses

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Recent Examples of angry But Spielberg was angry and distanced himself from Michael. Dan Beck, Variety, 21 Oct. 2025 Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, recently spoke about a particular time that left him very angry with former President Barack Obama. Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 21 Oct. 2025 No wonder Har-Melech and her allies were angry. Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2025 Durst’s angry singing delivery and Borland’s costumes, which include masks and paint, also set the band apart from others. Mirna Alsharif, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for angry
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Adjective
  • Mistaken as the murderer, Mary is stoned and buried alive in a shallow grave by the enraged townspeople.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The defense attorney, Michael Caesar, told jurors that Bragg became enraged after Gladney outed him as a gay man, and sought revenge.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Everyone has an opinion about the correct address for ladies, and everyone is indignant when others’ choices are different.
    Judith Martin, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Still, Waits' daughter was indignant.
    Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Health experts and Black leaders were outraged at his statement.
    Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Parents would likely be outraged to learn the department isn’t more consistently tracking this information, said Charles Hobson, a professor at Indiana University Northwest and a board member of the advocacy group Stop Educator Sexual Abuse Misconduct & Exploitation.
    Danielle DuClos, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Soon, the faces of the angered New York City citizens around her soften.
    Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025
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  • After 55 years based in Munich, ISPO, one of the world’s largest sporting goods trade fairs and an annual fixture in the sports-mad German city, is moving out.
    Cathrin Schaer, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Elordi's version of the mad scientist's monster boasts pale skin covered in scars, an alarming absence of eyebrows, and ratty dark hair extending past his shoulders.
    Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • That’s how Gibson and Smith both ended up in prison, each furious under the impression that the other had put them there.
    Omar Jimenez, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Roschman and Billitier immediately called Ozer, furious.
    Steve Belanger, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Instead of having heavy electronic goggles sticking out from the wearer's face and pulling on the neck like a lever, the optics are integrated into the ballistic helmet along with acoustic and radio frequency sensors.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Officers arrived and recovered ballistic evidence and took witness statements confirming a shooting had happened, according to the CPD.
    Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Like across-the-board tariffs, which would eat into profit margins and infuriate investors.
    Allison Morrow, CNN, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The results, which are beautifully austere, flooded by sunlight but somehow cold, infuriate Van Buren, played with a masculine bluster by Guy Pearce, who sounds as if his idea of the Breakfast of Champions was a bowl of ground glass drowned in whole milk.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 3 Jan. 2025

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“Angry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/angry. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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