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Example sentences for "raged"

Lexicographically close words:
raga; ragamuffin; ragamuffins; ragan; rage; rageful; rageing; rages; rageth; ragged
  1. He raged with his head, his arms, and his legs.

  2. When he raged in reply and threatened them, they told him to be damned.

  3. She was either laughing or sobbing, he was not sure which; the cloak that muffled her hid her face; but her voice raged on, half furious, half triumphant.

  4. She was unconscious of the whispering interest she excited; she did not hear the subdued discussion that raged around her.

  5. The battle raged again in the centre of the line.

  6. At times, therefore, an awful unquiet raised the hairs on his head, and in his breast despair raged like a whirlwind.

  7. The fight raged with such stubbornness that between the two lines of combatants a new wall, as it were, was formed of the bodies of horses and men.

  8. The unheard-of tempest raged over the town, the castle, the trenches, and the tabor.

  9. Now instead of two battles there raged one, but all the more stubborn.

  10. Pan Longin, girt with Anusia's scarf, raged with his broadsword.

  11. The battle raged along the whole length of the rampart.

  12. On Thursday, July 8, a terrific storm raged over the town and the freshly raised ramparts of the camp.

  13. He must leave the house unperceived, and dare the pitiless storm and pelting rain; for the tempest still raged without.

  14. And now for one minute a terrific conflict again raged within him.

  15. The terrible battle raged from morning until night; the Russians were not beaten, but almost annihilated.

  16. The Sardinians fought like men, and the Zouaves, as usual, like so many tigers, and the battle raged from morning until about 5 p.

  17. In and around Hougoumont the desperate strife raged for hours.

  18. The melting snow in the room required constant sweeping back, the fire was kept burning brightly and the battle raged on.

  19. All night it raged and as there was no sign of its abatement, Gully ventured out to attend to his stock the following morning.

  20. All through that day and the day following the blizzard raged without any appreciable lull in its terrific force.

  21. Travis Gully, left alone, sat dreaming by the stove, while outside the blizzard raged and tore at the walls of his home.

  22. Queen Margaret also lies here, she who sat stitching, stitching, stitching, while those same nobles raged through Linlithgow and sought their king.

  23. I wondered if there was any haunting memory of Margaret of Denmark who sat here sewing when the nobles raged through the palace seeking the life of James III.

  24. During the great drought the fire had raged about the woods.

  25. It was then that a beaming smile overspread his countenance, and he raged about the kitchen with Vulcan-like joviality.

  26. The storm without raged so furiously that they felt a strong disinclination to separate.

  27. The storms of winter had raged round the Bell Rock as usual--as they had done, in fact, since the world began; but that winter the handiwork of man had also been exposed to the fury of the elements there.

  28. The great memory of Richmond for all time will be of the Civil War, when for three years battles raged around it.

  29. The final conflict of the battle of Princeton raged around this venerated building, and Washington presented fifty guineas to the College to repair the damage done by his bombardment.

  30. He raged like a madman, and threatened to pick up Valhalla like a toy house and carry it home with him to Jotunheim.

  31. The giant stormed and raged and threatened to kill him; but still Loki was silent.

  32. The Germans replied to this with the greatest energy; for two days and nights the battle raged round the ruins of the fort.

  33. The contest raged most bitterly over the ruins of Thiaumont and Fleury.

  34. As the pursued and the pursuer raced madly toward the distant forest the battle behind them raged with bloody savageness.

  35. For another hour the battle raged nor did it cease until the last of the Abyssinians lay dead upon the ground, or had galloped off toward the north in flight.

  36. In his time a plague raged at Rome of so strange a nature, that persons seized with it died sneezing and gaping.

  37. The first patient of yellow fever in Philadelphia, which raged there with great fury this year, died on this day.

  38. At that time there raged in London a malady called the sweating sickness, which terminated fatally in twenty-four hours.

  39. A furious storm raged at the time, which destroyed two Swedish ships.

  40. A writer of the time says, that the last plague they had raged so violently that the fortieth person lived not of those who dwelt there four years before, but that it was peopled with new faces.

  41. The cholera raged at Rome, and was fatal to 300; the greatest number of deaths that occurred in any one day.

  42. The battle had raged for hours; now it must be decided one way or the other.

  43. Therefore, with easy ability, she took the tiller ropes and steered his craft and hers through the troubled waters which instantly raged about him.

  44. She saw the subterranean spirits, how in terrible shapes they raged about in the now wilderness, and sought to suffocate her beneath piles of snow and ice, which they flung upon her.

  45. The river and the brooks roared loudly, and raged and thundered amid the rocks around them.

  46. She felt a sting in her heart; a serpent raged in her bosom.

  47. Stormannadauen (the Black Death) had raged through Norway, and cut off more than two-thirds of its population, and desolated whole extents of country and large populous districts.

  48. A vague panic raged everywhere, {113} and the Funds went alarmingly down.

  49. When the tide rose the waters raged and thundered all around the rock, but when it sank again the still, deep pool remained, unruffled as a mountain tarn and as full of mystery.

  50. There followed a pause--a shuddering, expectant pause--while wind and sea raged all around them like beasts of prey.

  51. For two days Aunt Janet thought and pondered while Marcella raged about Ben Grief with the wings of all the swifts and swallows on earth in her feet.

  52. I'll break his damned neck," he cried again, and raged off into the Bush.

  53. But his eyes meanwhile were turned again and again to the storm raging without, as it had raged for this the longest week he had ever spent.

  54. In the splendor of it all he had only raged and stormed, hating his fellow-man, waiting, however hopelessly, for the day when he should see Marcile and the man who had taken her from him.

  55. Suddenly the old man raged out: "Her--off the stage to look after this!

  56. For a moment she stood frozen still, her face thin and drawn and white; then suddenly the blood rushed back into her face, and a red storm raged in her eyes.

  57. This, the reader will easily suppose, was no other than the remembrance of the forlorn Monimia, whose image appeared to his fancy in different attitudes, according to the prevalence of the passions which raged in his bosom.

  58. For several hours a fierce battle also raged between Dorking and Mickleham.

  59. But along the long line east and west the battle raged with increasing fierceness.

  60. Hour after hour the tremendous warfare raged between the armies of Queen Victoria and the Tsar, and the bloodshed was everywhere terrible.

  61. The sun was sinking, but the battle still raged with unabated fury.

  62. She went away, and the great authority on women raged about the room.

  63. Having for half an hour raged internally at his misfortune, he now sullenly embraced it.

  64. Man still afforded the discordant note, and the only heat in the surroundings was that in the burning young heart that raged by my side.

  65. That would give you a taste of your deserts," raged the girl.

  66. Oh, the hot young heart that raged by my side!

  67. Outside the officers raged still louder, and demanded with more violent cries the opening of the door.

  68. The crowd raged still more furiously, and pressed toward the spot where Pfannenstiel stood.

  69. It was a terrible hour, a fearful agony raged within me, and it has never left me since.

  70. No trace of the storm which had raged through her life could be seen on her countenance.


  71. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "raged" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.