Sample Sentences for
wrath
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    I can't save you from their wrath.  (source)
    wrath = extreme anger
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    "Yanek speaks with the wisdom of the prophet Isaiah," he said softly, then quoted, "'Come, my people ...and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until the wrath is past.'"  (source)
    wrath = angry punishment
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    He even caught her wrath at work.  (source)
    wrath = intense anger
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    Mr. Smith was filled with wrath when he heard of this.  (source)
    wrath = anger
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    I can understand a wrathful God who'd just as soon dangle us all from a hook.†  (source)
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    Mayella sniffed wrathfully and looked at Atticus.  (source)
    wrathfully = angrily
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    It was truly biblical; a fog I could imagine God, in one of his lesser wraths, cursing the Egyptians with.†  (source)
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    Adam, finding that she did not look round so as to see the smile on his face, was afraid she had thought him serious about his wrathfulness, and went up to her, so that she was obliged to look at him.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    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.  (source)
    wrath = angry vengeance or punishment
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    He scratched his chin again, and became wrathful.†  (source)
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    Haie looked round once again and said wrathfully, satisfied and rather mysteriously: "Revenge is black-pudding."†  (source)
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    Of the prodigy of all wraths, said others.†  (source)
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    Long he had hunted in vain till the dawn chilled his wrath...  (source)
    wrath = intense anger
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