How to Use livid in a Sentence

livid

adjective

• The judge had the final word, and the father was livid.
  — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 July 2021
• Huge swathes of the public seem livid Markle can’t grin and bear it.
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2021
• Joan is livid, but a meeting with her lawyer gets her nowhere.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2023
• Health officials in New York were livid over the event.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 6 June 2019
• Brother 2 was livid and hasn’t spoken to us for three years.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 10 Aug. 2021
• My husband was livid, and drove the three hours to the police station to bail him out and bring him back home.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 10 July 2019
• By this time David is livid, and shouting; the director can’t tell him what’s wrong with the take.
  — Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2021
• Conway was livid, and Ballard said the two of them haven’t spoken since.
  — Trisha Thadani, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Mar. 2018
• Egger was so livid over the final vote that a deputy had to ask him to quiet down.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Anchorage Daily News, 26 July 2023
• Just a few days earlier, a livid red rash had spread across my cheeks and chin.
  — Jancee Dunn, Vogue, 8 Nov. 2019
• Ruth decides to open up about what happened with Tom Grant, and Sam is livid.
  — Kathryn Lindsay, refinery29.com, 29 June 2018
• One of the most livid was actress Mimi Rogers, who stands ready to lead the charge against the utility.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• Lions coaches were livid and ran onto the field to confront the refs.
  — Darron Patterson, al, 23 Sep. 2022
• Chris is livid and yells about how young everyone at start-ups look.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 31 May 2019
• Readers who wanted O’Neal to stay with the Magic were livid.
  — Jeff Pearlman, orlandosentinel.com, 21 Dec. 2020
• Trump was livid about the Fox call, in particular, and lashed out at the network, a source said.
  — Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy, CNN, 5 Nov. 2020
• After his knockout loss to Fury in 2020, Wilder was livid that Breland had thrown in the towel to stop the fight.
  — Josh Katzowitz, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2021
• Police and Mayor Rahm Emanuel were livid when the charges against Smollett were dropped.
  — Ryan Parker, Billboard, 23 Apr. 2019
• Aurangzeb was livid when news reached him in Delhi about what had happened on the Gunsway.
  — Howard Schneider, National Review, 15 Aug. 2020
• Trump’s scowl was partly buried in a mass of livid, blood-red and bruise-purple brushstrokes.
  — Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
• Tartaglia was livid, even though Cardano acknowledged his work in the book.
  — Quanta Magazine, 30 June 2022
• While some were livid and others brushed it off, everyone was on the same page about the content.
  — Arika Herron, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Aug. 2021
• The last call of the first half had Steve Donahue absolutely livid.
  — Mike Jensen, Philly.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• Fultz was livid upon learning about what Jones said Brown told him.
  — Keith Pompey, Philly.com, 29 Jan. 2018
• Bob Irsay was livid and had set up a meeting with Meyer.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Dec. 2021
• When Belmonte didn’t send him the money, Whitehead was livid.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2023
• His associate called Beyler, who was livid to learn Lively was still in prison.
  — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2020
• Natalie Roberts, 43, shouted at the drivers of a pickup truck with a Trump sign in the back, who grew livid.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2020
• The collective rage from both parents and non-parents all over the internet has been loud and livid.
  — Tanay Howard, Parents, 12 Aug. 2024
• Behind the scenes, the former President was livid and disoriented at the abrupt turn of events.
  — Brian Bennett, TIME, 11 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024