Sample sentences for WRATH - verbalworkout.com

(click/touch triangles for details)

Definition

extreme anger or angry punishment

wrath = extreme anger

wrath = angry punishment

wrath = angry punishment

She stood shivering beneath the torrent of her mother's wrath.
Stephen Crane -- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

wrath = intense anger

I'm tired of pretending, of being afraid of my mom's wrath.
Simone Elkeles -- Perfect Chemistry

wrath = extreme anger

If the Great Sea had risen in wrath and fallen on the hills with storm, it could have worked no greater ruin.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Two Towers

wrath = intense anger

When he killed Oduche in the fight over the land, he fled to Aninta to escape the wrath of the earth.
Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart

wrath = angry punishment

This growing feeling was due to Mr. Brown, the white missionary, who was very firm in restraining his flock from provoking the wrath of the clan.
Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart

wrath = anger

If she was on the porch when we passed, we would be raked by her wrathful gaze, subjected to ruthless interrogation regarding our behavior, and given a melancholy prediction on what we would amount to when we grew up, which was always nothing.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

wrathful = angry

When I told him my father's name, it sent him glancing at the sun and trembling worse than ever, but at day's end no wrath had descended and he knelt to me and said that I must have blessed his nets, for they were the fullest they had ever been.
Madeline Miller -- Circe

wrath = angry punishment

She really looked like the wrath of God, and I was too scared to go over and buy a package of peanuts for myself.
Paul Zindel -- The Pigman

wrath = anger

wrath = intense anger

wrath = intense anger

Long he had hunted in vain till the dawn chilled his wrath...
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Hobbit

wrath = intense anger

His fear of the orcs, forgotten for a while in his wrath...
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Return of the King

wrath = intense anger

Grey Beaver's wrath was terrible; likewise was White Fang's fright.
Jack London -- White Fang

wrath = intense anger

He'd written his own sermons his whole life, and some of them, we had to admit, were actually interesting, especially when he talked about the "wrath of God coming down on the fornicators" and all that good stuff.
Nicholas Sparks -- A Walk to Remember

wrath = angry vengeance or punishment

wrath = intense anger

You have exposed us to Zeus' wrath for some foolish whim.
Madeline Miller -- Circe

wrath = angry punishment

Okeke had gone as far as to say that Enoch should not be hidden in the parsonage, because he would only draw the wrath of the clan on the pastor.
Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart

wrath = angry punishment

Search for other examples by interest

Interest — Source