enrage

Example Sentences

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These predictions—and still more disturbing ones—both confuse and enrage Oedipus, and lead him to accuse Creon of unseemly ambition and betrayal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

Unfortunately, one of the easiest ways to engage people is to enrage them.

From Slate • Jan. 29, 2025

But it was Friedkin’s combination of Hollywood swagger and theatrical bumbling that really seemed to enrage Berkoff most.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2024

The arrival of the USS Ronald Reagan is expected to enrage North Korea, which views the deployment of such a powerful U.S. military asset as a major security threat.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 11, 2023

She hesitated, conscious that in answering she would be offering a form of defense, a rationale, and that it might enrage him further.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan