Anger is an English word with synonyms like emotion or fire. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Anger in a sentence
Related words
Anger meaning
- A strong and unpleasant feeling of displeasure, hostility, or antagonism, usually combined with an urge to yell, curse, damage or destroy things, or harm living beings, often stemming from perceived provocation, hurt, threat, insults, unfair or unjust treatment, or an undesired situation.
- Pain or stinging.
Synonyms of Anger
Using Anger
- The main meaning on this page is: A strong and unpleasant feeling of displeasure, hostility, or antagonism, usually combined with an urge to yell, curse, damage or destroy things, or harm living beings, often stemming from perceived provocation, hurt, threat, insults, unfair or unjust treatment, or an undesired situation. | Pain or stinging.
- Useful related words include: ire, evoke, kindle, enkindle.
- In the example corpus, anger often appears in combinations such as: anger and, of anger, and anger.
Example sentences (20)
Anger does not follow thought, and thought does not follow anger.
Interestingly, while there’s a Police Station at Hopetown, like at Buxton, it seems their new SOP is to allow the mob to vent its anger – and move in only after the said anger subsides.
Empathy can also help calm anger as when a spouse feels he is being understood the anger dissipates.
The wellness manager confirmed that some students presented with anger, and as a result, the centre did “a lot of workshops on anger management”.
Fear leads to anger, and anger leads to hate.
The promo had a lot of anger behind it, though one couldn't help but think that the anger wasn't so much directed at Moxley as it was WWE.
Black feminists have long explored the political uses of anger (and also pointed out that, of course, not all women are allowed, let alone congratulated, for accessing their anger).
I heard a lot of anger at the lack of taxation of the very wealthy, and also anger about how much inequality there was.
In the chapter on anger, Bamzai says, “Nurture your anger.
In homes where anger was expressed freely and sometimes abusively, the class was split between adults who had grown up fearing and avoiding anger, and ones who also expressed it externally and often, the way it was modeled to them.
She considers the “racial resentments” that sprung up and around the Women’s March, without digging deep into the criticisms that women of color wrote about extensively: namely, that white women’s anger is the only anger that counts.
According to the general strain theory, men would more likely engage in aggressive behavior directed towards others due to externalized anger whereas women would direct their anger towards themselves rather than others.
J.I. Packer, Knowing God, p.206 Thus the definition of Christian propitiation asserted by Calvin, Packer and Murray holds that within God there is a dichotomy of love and anger, but through propitiation love trumps anger, abolishing it.
Pope Clement VII was presented with a problem: he could either anger Charles or else anger Henry.
Women view anger as a sign that they've somehow lost control, and thus worry that this anger may lead them to harm others and/or damage relationships.
Activists and observers said anger over the dead fish is a symptom of deeper grievances that surface regularly at the mining site.
Acts of charity turn off the anger of God.
Adult anger and pessimism are pervasive: A recent 58 percent of registered voters surveyed believed that America’s best days were behind it.
After a crushing decade, Ouologuem returned to Mali, where he remained resolutely silent on the matter, responding to questions about his aborted literary career with digressions or outbursts of anger, refusing even to speak French.
After losing someone close to him, the final scene of the episode has the president taking his anger out on God in a fiery speech within an empty cathedral.
Common combinations with anger
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- anger and 30×
- of anger 20×
- and anger 17×
- the anger 15×
- their anger 14×
- anger at 14×
- his anger 13×
- with anger 10×
- anger over 10×
- to anger 7×