How to Use furious in a Sentence

furious

adjective
  • We worked all night at a furious pace.
  • I was furious with them for printing the story.
  • She's furious at how slowly the investigation is proceeding.
  • What was the vibe of the photo shoot? PA Fast and furious!
    Danielle Directo-Meston, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The song is a furious protest aimed at a distant élite.
    Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The city’s shelters were full, though, and Jones was furious.
    E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Not all of it worked, but Jackson was every inch the furious monarch.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
  • But this one video prompted a furious backlash from the right.
    The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Some top agents also seem to be furious — not with the studios but with their own clients.
    Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2023
  • The front office has learned that furious spending alone cannot stir in the secret sauce.
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2023
  • Saban was furious on the sideline as the Bulls received a massive gift.
    Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The outcome left most of the Republican rank and file furious.
    Carl Hulse, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The female officer walks up to the Charger and tells the husband, who appears to be furious.
    Zaeem Shaikh, Dallas News, 29 July 2023
  • The fleet is thus likely to shrink at a time when China is expanding its own naval forces at a furious pace.
    Loren Thompson, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
  • In the end, the Swifties were able to get a lot of the AI smut removed through mass-reporting and overwhelm the rest with a furious avalanche of condemnation.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2024
  • They aren’t eliminated yet but will need a furious streak toward the end of the season.
    Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The Fed has jacked up rates at a furious pace from early last year, up to a range of 4.75% to 5% from virtually zero.
    CBS News, 2 May 2023
  • The one who was in touch with them daily was Luca, who was furious and did everything to try to convince them not to make the wrong choice.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 25 July 2023
  • Many furious Americans claimed that Ford had been part of a corrupt deal.
    Julian Zelizer, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Her parents did not want this to happen and were furious with Crawford, never to speak with her again.
    Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Many Russian soldiers’ wives and parents are furious that men must fight with no way out until the war ends.
    Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
  • At one point, he was caught in the middle of a furious squabble among activists over whether foxes should be trapped to save birds in those wetlands.
    James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
  • There were furious open forums at the City Council, and shrill public meetings around town.
    Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
  • Jackson, the sheriff wrote in his report, was still furious.
    Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Neither debater then needed a phalanx of cops to rush them out a back exit clear of furious mobs.
    Matt Thompson, SPIN, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Muchova mounted a furious comeback to come away with the win.
    Howard Fendrich, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2023
  • Republicans are furious that the balloon floated over the U.S. for a week.
    Weijia Jiang, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The furious sound of Moctar’s band, for him, is intended in part to reflect the urgency of the subject matter.
    Andy Cush, Pitchfork, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Both Parker and Gobin are furious that the child’s remains were taken.
    Brandi Morin, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Abel is of course grumpy and furious, but Rosalie argues that her beard could pull in visitors, like a circus act.
    Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2023

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'furious.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: