How to Use force of nature in a Sentence

force of nature

noun phrase
Definition of force of naturenext
  • So, in many ways, the worm was a symbol or metaphor for the very force of nature and its many different forms.
    — Karen Idelson, Variety, 12 Jan. 2024
  • One was a great coach & character while Lenny was a force of nature.
    — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 17 Feb. 2024
  • On top of all that, a force of nature is threatening to upend their lives.
    — Jen Yamato, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Henson was a force of nature, but the episode also came with some nice subtle moments too.
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023
  • During this rain-heavy time, the falls go from a spidery trickle to a powerful force of nature that plunges off the cliffs toward the earth.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 4 May 2024
  • Among the latter resides a certain force of nature: J.D. Netto.
    — Nick Kasmik, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Today, in her 60s, the Mexican singer-songwriter is still a force of nature.
    — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Each tornado had to be a force of nature unto itself — building in scope and in relation to Kate’s journey.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 23 July 2024
  • Particle physicists announced that there is strong evidence of a fifth force of nature.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Yet despite it all, residents and scientists are fighting back against the primordial force of nature.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The cigar-chomping Kiefer, now 78, is presented as a force of nature, constructing and demolishing with equal bravado.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2024
  • His Chigurh is not merely a villain, but a force of nature – with all the actual horror that entails – marked by an unsettling calmness in the face of profound terror.
    — Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024
  • However, being a force of nature also comes with a deep fear of being vulnerable.
    — Narayana Montúfar, Women's Health, 11 Aug. 2023
  • But the revolutionary force of nature coursing through teenage bodies that refuse to be suppressed is powerfully brought to life.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Since then, said Eustis, McCraney has been a force of nature, making a name for himself not only as a playwright but as a screenwriter, actor, director and teacher.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Vale said fungus has already begun to decay the tree from the roots up, with the gradual yet unstoppable force of nature’s decomposition cycle.
    — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 22 Apr. 2024
  • Weaving together big questions about our country's history and the state of things today with an intimate letter to his young son, this book is an absolute force of nature.
    — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2024
  • And so Haaland, the most devastating forward in Europe, a player who has seemed at times in his debut season in England like an inevitable force of nature, was employed — at least in part — as a battering ram.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 9 May 2023
  • Neither good nor evil, the vulture is simply a force of nature with both positive and negative aspects, and clearly an important one across cultures and traditions.
    — Ian Rose, JSTOR Daily, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Rachel Weisz is a force of nature while doing the dual role thing to play Beverly and Elliot Mantle, twin gynecologists who will stop at nothing to reinvent the way people do childbirth—medical ethics be damned!
    — Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 25 Dec. 2023
  • For those of us who knew him and worked with him, Chance was always charming and smiling, an enthusiastic force of nature, an incredibly talented performer, and more than anything else, just a very kind, lovely person.
    — Michaela Zee, Variety, 5 May 2024
  • Simone is at different points an incredulous audience surrogate, a tragic heroine, and a comic force of nature, often shifting from one to the next within a few heartbeats.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Every force of nature is mediated by a force-carrying particle.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Quanta Magazine, 7 May 2024
  • In all of her acting roles to date, Megan has essentially played a version of her stage persona, an ultra-confident, bodacious, and unapologetically feminine force of nature.
    — TIME, 13 Oct. 2023
  • And, of course, there’s Dom, a wonderfully relentless force of nature, perpetually educating themselves.
    — Daneet Steffens, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023

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