FIERY in a Sentence

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The helmsman who steered by that tiller in a tempest, felt like the Tartar, when he holds back his fiery steed by clutching its jaw.

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 Meanings and Examples of FIERY
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fiery
 a.  characterized by intense emotion; like or suggestive of fire; very intense
Classic Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
1  There was a last instant when the air shot past him like millions of fiery wires; and then the elm.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  She was a tall woman, standing a head higher than her fiery little husband, but she moved with such quiet grace in her swaying hoops that the height attracted no attention to itself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  As she thought this, the clamor of dissenting voices rose up about Ashley, indignant, fiery.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  There was a glow of grim pride in her usually gentle face, approbation and a fierce joy in her smile that equaled the fiery tumult in Scarlett's own bosom.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
5  The flames raced ever beyond her, toward the walls of the covered runway, fiery snakes that writhed and leaped and, exhaustion sweeping her, she knew that it was hopeless.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
6  She was beyond caring who saw her, beyond anything except a fiery desire to kill him, but dizziness was sweeping her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
7  The brandy burned with fiery pleasantness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
8  Mrs. Fisher was small, fiery and dramatic; and her hands and eyes were admirable instruments in the service of whatever causes he happened to espouse.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
9  She had to draw upon this thought, as upon some fiery stimulant, to keep up her part in the scene toward which Rosedale was too frankly tending.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
10  In the sky a fiery plain sloped down to a serene harbor.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
11  The helmsman who steered by that tiller in a tempest, felt like the Tartar, when he holds back his fiery steed by clutching its jaw.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
12  It seemed as though, by some nameless, interior volition, he would fain have shocked into them the same fiery emotion accumulated within the Leyden jar of his own magnetic life.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 36. The Quarter-Deck.
13  For a long time, now, the circus-running sun has raced within his fiery ring, and needs no sustenance but what's in himself.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
14  Then come out those fiery effulgences, infernally superb; then the evil-blazing diamond, once the divinest symbol of the crystal skies, looks like some crown-jewel stolen from the King of Hell.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 93. The Castaway.
15  For an instant in the flashing eyes of the mate, and his fiery cheeks, you would have almost thought that he had really received the blaze of the levelled tube.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 109. Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin.
Example Sentence:
1  The sun was now sinking, a fiery ball of light in the west.
2  The fiery right-wing leader toned down his militant statements after the meeting.
3  The song is a fiery mix of twanging guitar with relentless drumming.
4  In a fiery speech, Mario and his fellow students incite audience to go out on strike to protest the government.
5  Mrs. Fairfax came in, breaking up by her entrance the fiery mosaic I had been piercing together, and scattering too some heavy unwelcome thoughts that were beginning to throng on my solitude.
6  A European satellite that mapped Earth's gravitational field in exquisite detail will be pulled down by gravity to its fiery destruction sometime in the next few days.