VIRULENT in a Sentence

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Armfeldt virulently hated Napoleon and was a general full of self-confidence, a quality that always influenced Alexander.

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 Meanings and Examples of VIRULENT
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virulent
 a.  extremely poisonous; hostile; bitter
Classic Sentence:
1  I was a precocious actress in her eyes; she sincerely looked on me as a compound of virulent passions, mean spirit, and dangerous duplicity.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  It was consumption of the most virulent kind.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
3  When the typhus fever had fulfilled its mission of devastation at Lowood, it gradually disappeared from thence; but not till its virulence and the number of its victims had drawn public attention on the school.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
4  the convoy guards began cursing and the French soldiers, with fresh virulence, drove away with their swords the crowd of prisoners who were gazing at the dead man.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XIII
5  Armfeldt virulently hated Napoleon and was a general full of self-confidence, a quality that always influenced Alexander.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence:
1  The media has waged a virulent hate campaign against her.
2  Now he faces virulent attacks from the Italian media.
3  The epidemic was caused by a particularly virulent flu germ.
4  A particularly virulent strain of flu has recently claimed a number of lives in the US.
5  Laid up with a virulent case of measles, Vera blamed her doctors because her recovery took so long.
6  Ebola is a severe illness with a fatality rate of up to 90%, is one of the world's most virulent diseases.
7  An old woman advanced a few paces to shake her fist virulently in my face.