Sample Sentences forincensedgrouped by contextual meaning (editor-reviewed)
incensed as in: incensed by her insult
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She was incensed by the judges' unfairness.incensed = very angered
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Incensed, he immediately ordered the tree to be cut down. (source)
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Doubletree Mutt looked into the barn, his big tail waving provocatively, and Jody was so incensed at his health that he found a hard black clod on the floor and deliberately threw it. (source)
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My old school was all about cutting ahead and incensing the lunch ladies, but here everyone waits patiently.† (source)
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He had seen himself, a young and silent-mannered priest, entering a confessional swiftly, ascending the altarsteps, incensing, genuflecting, accomplishing the vague acts of the priesthood which pleased him by reason of their semblance of reality and of their distance from it.† (source)
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When we arrived home from the service, Dad was incensed that lunch wasn't ready.† (source)
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I was incensed and wasn't about to let myself be put off like that.† (source)
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The incenses and perfumes which filled the air were thick and cloying.† (source)
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At length, after much deliberation, which during that night supplied the place of sleep, he determined to feign himself sick: for this suggested itself as the only means of failing the appointed visit, without incensing Lady Bellaston, which he had more than one reason of desiring to avoid.† (source)
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A few times, purely to incense Mama a little further, he also brought the instrument to the kitchen and played through breakfast. (source)incense = anger
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Cinder dug her fingers into her thighs, too incensed to argue.† (source)
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Essences of musk and champac, and the bluish haze of burning incenses drifted, soothing his soul, about him.† (source)
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—Well, call him hither;—We are reconcil'd, and the first view shall kill All repetition:—let him not ask our pardon; The nature of his great offence is dead, And deeper than oblivion do we bury Th' incensing relics of it; let him approach, A stranger, no offender; and inform him, So 'tis our will he should.† (source)
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After a brief struggle, Wes wrestled free and jumped back from his incensed brother.† (source)
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He rose and stalked off toward his pavilion, past stunted trees that twisted with a certain grotesque beauty, past trellises woven with morning glory, pools of blue water lilies, strings of pearls swinging from rings all wrought of white gold, past lamps shaped like girls, tripods wherein pungent incenses burnt and an eight-armed statue of a blue goddess who played upon the veena when properly addressed.† (source)
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Sonya is even more incensed, her sly nature taking hold.† (source)
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meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus
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One of the larger stalls smelled heavily of incense and featured what looked like shrines. (source)incense = something burned to produce a pleasant odor
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There was something serene about it, a temple emptied of all ceremonial accoutrements and cleared of incense smoke. (source)
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