fumed

Example Sentences

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“That wasn’t funny at all, if that’s your idea of a prank,” she fumed.

From Literature

The play earned O’Neill his second Pulitzer Prize for drama, but he fumed at the way critics accused him of copping out with what seemed to them a happy ending.

From Los Angeles Times

“Now I shall have to waste part of my salary on clothes, which I hardly need,” she fumed, although it was not really true, for the elbows of her sleeves were worn rather thin.

From Literature

“Next to the elephant’s-foot umbrella stand, he says. Why, the cheek!” the admiral fumed.

From Literature

“Awful, clumsy, incompetent workmen! I shall have them all fired,” she fumed.

From Literature