wrathful

Example Sentences

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A few scenes later, when Aang demands to be released so he can save the Northern Water Tribe, Bumi becomes wrathful.

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2024

When the journey of my life has reached its end, … may the peaceful and wrathful buddhas send out the power of their compassion and clear away the darkness of ignorance.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2023

A portrait of Fudo Myo-o, a Buddhist deity, is a product of the artist Myotaku’s devotional act of painting the wrathful figure every day for 20 years.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2022

She squeezed huge penalties out of Apple Inc. and Google, rousing wrathful tweets from U.S.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 10, 2019

He’d never seen him angry before, let alone wrathful, and it made him seem bigger somehow, an altogether different and more dangerous species of Strange than the one he had known all these years.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor