SEETHE in a Sentence

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For SEETHE, below is one of 28 sentences:
But only by the flashing needle and the delicate brows drawn down toward her nose did Melanie indicate that she was inwardly seething.

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 Meanings and Examples of SEETHE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
seethe
 v.  be disturbed; boil; be in state of turmoil or ferment
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  Then everything rises, the pavements begin to seethe, popular redoubts abound.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER
2  From the Leyden house down to Five Points, the street seethed with activity, the activity of an anthill just destroyed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
3  Atlanta and Georgia seethed and raged.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
4  His tormented body rolled not in brine but in blood, which bubbled and seethed for furlongs behind in their wake.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale.
5  Her prow curvetted as it were the neck of a stallion, and a great wave of dark blue water seethed in her wake.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XIII
6  They made a horrible groaning as their brains were being battered in, and the ground seethed with their blood.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XXII
7  A conscious unrest seethed in his blood.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
8  Seen thus, from the pure and frosty darkness in which he stood, it seemed to be seething in a mist of heat.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
9  It was pushed out now, and Scarlett knew that Mammy was seething over something of which she did not approve.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
10  But only by the flashing needle and the delicate brows drawn down toward her nose did Melanie indicate that she was inwardly seething.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
11  He knows he can stay in power just so long as he can convince the Federal government and the Yankee newspapers that Georgia is seething with rebellion and there's a Klansman hiding behind every bush.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
12  The yards were seething with agitation just then, said the man, speaking as a unionist.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
13  Heroes, he thought, could find excuses in that long seething lane.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
14  And yet he knew that this too, in the eyes of the vast seething world, was ridiculous.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
15  A terrible, seething welter of ugly life it seemed: not at all the flat drabness it looked from outside.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
Example Sentence:
1  The nation would seethe with discontent as the noblemen continue their arrogant ways.
2  The class positively seethed with indignation when Julia won the award.
3  She seethed silently in the corner.
4  The forest below him seethed and teemed with life.
5  Inwardly he was seething at this challenge to his authority.
6  She took it calmly at first but under the surface was seething.
7  The country was seething with discontent and the threat of revolution was real.