Ferocity is an English word with synonyms like fierceness or fury. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Ferocity in a sentence
Ferocity meaning
The condition of being ferocious.
Synonyms of Ferocity
Using Ferocity
- The main meaning on this page is: The condition of being ferocious.
- Useful related words include: fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence.
- In the example corpus, ferocity often appears in combinations such as: the ferocity, ferocity of, ferocity and.
Context around Ferocity
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ferocity
- In this selection, "ferocity" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, original, equal, sheer and balanced stand out and add context to how "ferocity" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include acknowledged the ferocity of the and and the ferocity of the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ferocity" sits close to words such as aamir, abysmal and alderman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ferocity
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The fires we started in the Ranger also burned with incredible ferocity. (12 words)
Dinosaur Jr. raged with a ferocity that can only be cultivated after over thirty years of punk rocking. (18 words)
His prowess in battle lies not in intricate planning and cunning intellect, but in sheer ferocity and brutality. (18 words)
An officer who serves on the Met’s murder investigation unit said: “It really does feel like things are getting out of control… The volume and the ferocity of the violence that we are seeing is off the charts. (39 words)
In a throat-grabbing exercise of some ferocity against the vast sea of protests against the Israel-Hamas War, Braverman took to running into the hundreds of thousands as an unquestioned “assertion of primacy by certain groups – particular Islamists”. (39 words)
The biography also casually pours some cold water on the ferocity of the famous feud between Lagerfeld and Saint Laurent over Jacques de Bascher, the great love of Lagerfeld’s life, who also had an affair with Saint Laurent. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
A contemporary echo of the concept’s original ferocity is invigorating, but after chapters of careful history explaining the subtlety of the original Luddites’ critique, it’s jarring too.
After a decade spent legally hitting humans with as much viciousness as possible, James Anderson has transitioned to hitting a certain object with just as much ferocity.
After newly-minted Denver Broncos head coach Sean Payton inexplicably excoriated his team’s previous coaching staff, referring to the Nathaniel Hackett-led crew as “the wurst coaching job in NFL history,” — Rodgers fired back with equal ferocity.
Although the action is far and few between in the issue, Jason's chances to throw punches come at such ferocity that they leave behind afterimages, almost like a scene from an anime.
Analysts are divided on whether the May 3 drone incident at the Kremlin was a genuine attack or a “false flag” concocted to justify increasing the ferocity of Russia’s missile barrages in Ukraine.
An officer who serves on the Met’s murder investigation unit said: “It really does feel like things are getting out of control… The volume and the ferocity of the violence that we are seeing is off the charts.
Apart from sporadic and isolated disturbances such as Odi, Shagamu and Zaki Biam which were decisively put down with a level of ferocity that offended the human rights community, threats to national security were few and far between.
Craig Prescott, a constitutional expert at Bangor University in north Wales, told AFP the “scale” and “ferocity” of the current royal rift was unprecedented but the royal family would probably “ride this out”.
Dinosaur Jr. raged with a ferocity that can only be cultivated after over thirty years of punk rocking.
Even the ferocity of nature – more dangerous than a dictator – can cast a spell of affection that would make the government lecherous in its desire.
Famed for their courage and ferocity, the Gurkhas were first recruited by the British East India company in 1815 following a peace deal with Nepal.
His prowess in battle lies not in intricate planning and cunning intellect, but in sheer ferocity and brutality.
In a throat-grabbing exercise of some ferocity against the vast sea of protests against the Israel-Hamas War, Braverman took to running into the hundreds of thousands as an unquestioned “assertion of primacy by certain groups – particular Islamists”.
It’s bad enough they’ve turned American history into their own political playground, where revered figures are savaged with revisionist history with the ferocity of angry children whaling away at a piñata.
Libowitz acknowledged the ferocity of the Israeli military strikes on Gaza in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks, as the Palestinian death toll as reported by the Hamas-run health ministry rose above 9,000.
Marcus Lane alleges that Ameer Jamal said the ferocity of the fire from the crashed Skoda containing victims Saqib Hussain and Hashim Ijazuddin was very strong.
Nevertheless, everything that came after, regarding the Hulk's ferocity and look, was nothing short of identical to what fans knew.
Reimagined through Windu's expertise, this Jedi-sanctioned adaptation of Form VII came to be known as Vaapad, forever intertwining his name with a revised legacy of ferocity balanced by enlightenment.
The biography also casually pours some cold water on the ferocity of the famous feud between Lagerfeld and Saint Laurent over Jacques de Bascher, the great love of Lagerfeld’s life, who also had an affair with Saint Laurent.
The fires we started in the Ranger also burned with incredible ferocity.
Common combinations with ferocity
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the ferocity 43×
- ferocity of 42×
- ferocity and 15×
- and ferocity 11×
- with ferocity 6×
- ferocity that 5×
- of ferocity 5×
- ferocity the 4×
- increasing ferocity 4×
- such ferocity 3×