IRE in a Sentence

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For IRE, below is one of 11 sentences:
It is a fire which proceeds directly from the ire of God, working not of its own activity but as an instrument of Divine vengeance.

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 Meanings and Examples of IRE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ire
 n.  anger; wrath; keen resentment; irritate
Classic Sentence:
1  My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  Pain, shame, ire, impatience, disgust, detestation, seemed momentarily to hold a quivering conflict in the large pupil dilating under his ebon eyebrow.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
3  Had I attended to the suggestions of pride and ire, I should immediately have left him; but something worked within me more strongly than those feelings could.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
4  I knew the steely ire I had whetted.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
5  He endeavored, in a general way, to express a particular disapproval, and only succeeded in arousing the ire and opposition of his father-in-law.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXIII
6  Heaven in ire has driven him from his country, but industry has opened to him the only road to power and to influence, which oppression has left unbarred.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
7  It is a fire which proceeds directly from the ire of God, working not of its own activity but as an instrument of Divine vengeance.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
8  He paraded his Musketeers before the Cardinal Armand Duplessis with an insolent air which made the gray moustache of his Eminence curl with ire.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 2 THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE
Example Sentence:
1  No matter how big the f ire, it was always put down to a discarded cigarette unless the arsonist was arrested.
2  The waiter tried unsuccessfully to placate the ire of the diner who had found a cockroach in her soup.
3  Petty restrictions easily raised/aroused the ire of such a creative artist.