RAGE in a Sentence

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Homes are built of weaker materials, including straw and corrugated steel, and may have had little stamina against Pam's raging winds.

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 Meanings and Examples of RAGE
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rage
 n.  something that is desired intensely; state of extreme anger
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Gerald had begun to work himself up into a pleasurable shouting rage when something in Scarlett's woebegone face stopped him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  Somewhere in her brain, a slow fire rose and rage began to blot out everything else.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  And then her rage broke, the same rage that drove Gerald to murder and other Irish ancestors to misdeeds that cost them their necks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  The noise cracked like a whip in the still room and suddenly her rage was gone, and there was desolation in her heart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  She sat down again very suddenly, the reaction from her rage making her knees feel weak.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  She saw Honey's awkward wigglings and heard her silly titters as she hung onto boys' arms, and the thought stung her to new rage, rage at herself, at Ashley, at the world.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  Scarlett kicked the coverlet in impotent rage, trying to think of something bad enough to say.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
8  "Oh," she said, rage breaking through.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
9  He bowed and sauntered off, leaving her with her bosom heaving with impotent rage and indignation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
10  It was his remarks about the Confederacy that made Atlanta look at him first in bewilderment, then coolly and then with hot rage.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
11  "You go to--Halifax," she said tensely, her green eyes slits of rage.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  His face was the face of a man drunk with fatigue and impotent rage and burning pity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
13  All the breath went out of Scarlett's lungs in one gasp of horror before rage swept her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
14  At the thought of the kitchen, rage suddenly leaped up in Scarlett's breast, so sharply that it jabbed at her heart like a knife thrust, and fear fell away before her overpowering fury.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
15  Scarlett's legs felt cold to the knees but rage scorched her face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
Example Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
16  When the magic mirror revealed that Snow White was still alive, the wicked queen cried out in rage and uttered dreadful malediction.
17  Her neck and arms were full of scars from a vindictive rage by her husband's relatives, who believed her guilty of his death.
18  The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision.
19  He became inarticulate with rage and uttered sounds without meaning.
20  To Horace, the satirist is a refined man who sees stupidity and insanity everywhere, but is moved to gentle laughter rather than to rage.
21  These days, those living in ‘The Jungle', as the squalid encampments on the edge of Calais are known, come from conflicts that rage beyond Europe's borders.
22  In his novels and stories, storms rage for years, flowers drift from the skies, tyrants survive for centuries, priests levitate and corpses fail to decompose. And, more plausibly, lovers rekindle their passion after a half-century apart.
23  They raged around Sid like a hail-storm; and before Aunt Polly could collect her surprised faculties and sally to the rescue, six or seven clods had taken personal effect, and Tom was over the fence and gone.
24  She raged against her husband for some household affairs.
25  The field trip involved crossing a raging torrent.
26  After heavy rain, the little stream becomes a raging torrent.
27  If raging inflation returns, then interest rates will shoot up.
28  On the international stage, a lively debate was already raging between those who support American engagement in world institutions and those who believe the United States should use its strength to work unilaterally.
29  Homes are built of weaker materials, including straw and corrugated steel, and may have had little stamina against Pam's raging winds.
30  Ian's rages and aberrant behavior worsened.