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.
  • Oliver’s standup is about the fun of rage more than the expression of it.
    Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The father murders the woman, and in a fit of rage, the son murders the father.
    Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The woman is full of rage that will be quelled only with blood.
    Vulture, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Does a different kind of rage come out of you on game day?
    Susan Miller Degnan, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Power lunch was once all the rage in Dallas-Fort Worth.
    Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The project slowly reveals the rage alluded to in the project’s title.
    Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
  • Filled with rage, Liv sets out on a frenzied path of revenge.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Cloning extinct animals seems to be all the rage right now.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 9 Apr. 2023
  • As consumers rave or rage, Brach’s has turned to fresh mixes and flavors over the years.
    Leanne Italie, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Jersey, who’s white, has called the cops on Knuck, and Ali is sick with rage at her mother and dread for her lover.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Wear it with knee-high boots for brunch, ballet flats (which are all the rage among celebs right now) to the office, or heels for date night.
    Claire Harmeyer, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The rage of some in the crowds outside Bonetti’s home made Felitti fear for her life.
    Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
  • March 20: Macron faces two votes of no confidence, called by both the far left and the far right, as protests and strikes rage throughout France.
    Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 17 Apr. 2023
  • End of carousel That sort of rage against the machine has spawned an entire industry.
    Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
  • She was born a brunette.) and natural texture were all the rage during her run of John Hughs films.
    Margaux Anbouba, ELLE, 31 July 2023
  • Many of these records can be heard near the surface of Nirvana’s music, filtered through a sieve of grungy rage.
    Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Paid loyalty programs are all the rage in the restaurant and retail worlds.
    Anne D'innocenzio, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The toys seem better-suited for midsize dogs, as a larger dog might just tear them to pieces in a spat of gamer-dog rage.
    Zackery Cuevas, PCMAG, 4 Apr. 2023
  • And so called zkEVMs are all the rage among Ethereum scaling enthusiasts.
    John Wolpert, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • There was a point in my high school career, smack dab in the middle of the 2010s—the dog days of the Indie Sleaze Era—where a certain pair of boots became all the rage.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Biden also compared the Hamas attack to 9/11, and warned Israel to not be consumed by rage.
    Solcyre Burga, TIME, 20 Oct. 2023
  • She is left with a long scar snaking up her ankle, and the persistent remnants of the rage that triggered her outburst.
    Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • As the streaming wars rage, some of the industry’s biggest players are seeking to join forces.
    Paolo Confino, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Rollerblading, also known as inline skating, was all the rage in the '90s and it's been making a comeback in the United States for a while now.
    Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 22 July 2023
  • The Court Jeweller reports that stomachers were all the rage at the turn of the twentieth century and were worn pinned to gown bodices.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 6 Dec. 2023
  • But all of that stuff is connected, and so much of my rage over these divisions made it into this film.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2024
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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 don’t forget lots of ice to keep the cocktail chilled as the party rages on.
    Gia Yetikyel, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The Marriott closed in March 2020 as the pandemic raged.
    Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The fire raged for more than eight hours, according to the Philippine coast guard.
    Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The fires that raged across the breadth of Canada in July eclipsed annual fire records.
    Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2023
  • As storms raged overnight, many of those outside the warehouse who had been sheltering in tents lost them to the wind.
    Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
  • And nowhere else in the nation has the debate raged on as fiercely as in Florida.
    Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 15 May 2023
  • Covid was still raging, and all the planning had to be done remotely.
    Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Debate has raged for decades over whether the exemptions are fair.
    Todd Richmond, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Joséphine asks Napoleon as the decadent party rages on behind them.
    Nathan Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Jerusalem is said to be the most heavily policed city in the country, and that will likely remain the case as the war in the south rages on.
    Guy Davies, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Chaos was raging outside, and inside the Capitol, part of the pro-Trump mob was trying to breach the House chamber.
    Natalia Jiménez-Stuard, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Blazes are raging across Maui and have also been reported on the islands of Hawai’i and Oahu.
    Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
  • But matters of the heart take a backseat as a raging wildfire bears down on the town and its residents.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Forty miles south, war is raging in Gaza, with tens of thousands killed and injured and a third of the enclave crushed to rubble.
    Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
  • For decades, wooden bridges had succumbed to raging floods.
    John O'Connor, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Apr. 2023
  • When Maksym finished high school, war was already raging in east Ukraine.
    Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
  • At the same time, given its own raging culture wars, the United States needs to be firm and outspoken but avoid hypocrisy.
    Foreign Affairs, 24 July 2023
  • The neighborhood is largely under the control of the RSF, but fierce battles have raged there every day.
    Hafiz Haroun, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
  • The street-by-street battles over the posters have turned into a cultural flashpoint in the U.S. as the war between Israel and Hamas rages with no end in sight.
    Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2023
  • But even though the fires may well keep raging through the summer, their smoke might not bedevil quite as many people as the current smoke has.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 7 June 2023
  • Nicks shared that as the wildfires were raging, her niece, niece’s husband, and child had been staying in her house and were unreachable for a time.
    Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The power of this fire, despite the fact that the local lakes were still frozen, that there were car-sized blocks of ice on the Athabasca River while this fire was raging around it.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
  • With the console wars raging and all the non-gaming giants trying to break in, what happens next is tough to predict.
    Simon Hill, WIRED, 24 Mar. 2024
  • It’s set in the future, where an ongoing war between humans and AI rages on without an end in sight.
    Helen Murphy, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Many of the raging fans were dressed in similar fashion, with plenty of colorful hair, fishnets and leather in the crowd.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Unconfirmed footage shared on social media showed a fire raging at the large Soviet-era facility and black smoke belching out of it.
    Reuters, NBC News, 11 Apr. 2024

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