How to Use fierce in a Sentence

fierce

adjective
  • He was killed in a fierce battle.
  • The two teams have had a fierce rivalry for many years.
  • You could see the fierce determination in her eyes.
  • The proposal has faced fierce opposition.
  • He's admired for his fierce independence.
  • Zdarsky opened the hangar’s bay door, and the fierce March light flooded in.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
  • That city was the site of fierce fighting over the winter.
    — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
  • And across the pond, there are some fierce fashions in Paris.
    — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Carter said Beryl lashed her house with fierce wind and rain.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 9 July 2024
  • The wind becomes fierce, shoving me first from the right, now from the left.
    — Taymour Soomro Scott Conarroe, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • Washington felt the throb and the pulse, the push and the tug of fierce winds on Saturday.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
  • The law passed after more than a decade of fierce debate.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Romney was one of Trump’s fiercest critics over the past few years.
    — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The fabric that serves as the domed stadium’s roof was ripped to shreds by the fierce winds.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The studio nabbed the film rights to the book after a fierce bidding war, according to the source.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2023
  • In 1868 a group of female samurai took part in the fierce Battle of Aizu for the very soul of Japan.
    — JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
  • There's a fierce debate about how to tackle the problem.
    — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 9 June 2023
  • At times, the fierce debate over the film’s merits has played out on the ground at Sundance.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Their sense of injustice is so fierce, and all those things came back to me.
    — Sara Austin, ELLE, 13 Oct. 2022
  • In response, Israel launched a fierce air and ground war.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025
  • All of Freedom Moses’s sandals are fierce, but this cool cat right here is the fiercest.
    — Barry Samaha, Robb Report, 28 Oct. 2022
  • With that, of course, the competition at the 2024 Grammys will be fierce.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 12 Oct. 2023
  • There was a fierce dedication to the form, and the function followed.
    — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Their yellow bills gape, and their fierce black and yellow eyes shine.
    — Richard Mertens, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2022
  • Even the official death toll is a point of fierce debate.
    — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The race for her seat in 2024 is set to be a fierce battle between Golden State Democrats.
    — Jack Birle, Washington Examiner, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The fiercest of them all is Zsadist, whose edge stems from a traumatic childhood.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024
  • And the Bengals and Ravens have a fierce history against each other.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The game between the fierce rivals was halted after 52 minutes due to fans throwing flares onto the pitch.
    — Adam Crafton, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
  • And the vocally gifted Quentin Earl Darrington is fierce and charismatic as the fiery Douglass.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2025

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