choler
Example Sentences
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Premiering Sunday on PBS, “Trespasses,” a four-part adaptation of Louise Kennedy’s 2022 debut novel, is a story of love in a time of choler.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
There’s Katharine Minola of “The Taming of the Shrew,” a sharp-tongued woman thought to have too much choler, the melancholic Ophelia of “Hamlet,” whose melancholia demonstrated an excess of black bile, and more.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2022
Throughout Seçkin’s debut, Sibel fixates on the ancient notion of the body’s four humors — blood, phlegm, black bile and choler — as a means of self-diagnosis for a persistent headache.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2022
Rockin’ the Suburbs offered no respite as it detailed the silent, hopeless choler of the human trash heap.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 18, 2015
My choler was so risen, I longed for nothing more than confrontation; my fingers demanded engagement.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing choler
"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 1
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Excerpts from "The Taming of the Shrew"
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"The Tragedy of Hamlet," Vocabulary from Act 3
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