Sentence examples for ferocious appearance from inspiring English sources

They take on a ferocious appearance in order to frighten away evil spirits and to destroy ignorance and ugly passions.

The hardun (A. stellio), which is common in northern Egypt, has a tail ringed with spiked scales, giving it a ferocious appearance.

Take, for example, his description of Jennifer's constant companion, the sharp-toothed Quarkbeast: "Despite his placid nature, the beast's ferocious appearance almost guaranteed that no one ever completely shrugged off the possibility that he might try to take a chunk out of them".

Quite aside from the presence of her much-discussed single Formation, a meditation on race that originally appeared in the middle of Black History Month, there are lyrical references to slavery, rioting and Malcolm X and a ferocious guest appearance by Kendrick Lamar that jabs at Fox News and police brutality and ends with something approaching a call to arms.

Blackwood, a slight figure, punches a weight that belies his appearance, ferocious on anything short.

The idyll is soon destroyed with the highly unwelcome appearance of Combo, a ferocious and sinister skin warrior just out of prison, played by Stephen Graham.

Some species are maligned due to their shocking appearance or by their ferocious reputation in folklore and myth; however, one species, though cute and tiny, threatens bathers in a very, shall we say, way.

Though he is portrayed comically, his name was based on a child's mispronunciation of Velociraptor, a ferocious dinosaur made iconic for its appearance in the Steven Spielberg film Jurassic Park.

Almost daily, Greg told me, his mother would rip into him about something — his grades, his appearance, his choice of friends — ferocious tirades that often culminated in her telling him, "I know you're going to leave me just like your sisters did".

Fenerbahce, attempting to reach the group stage for the first time since 2008, were inexplicably subdued given their ferocious support, and on this evidence only a total catastrophe will deny Arsenal their 16th consecutive appearance in the group stage.

It was a ferocious late onslaught from Saints that sent Franklin's Gardens into raptures and denied their rivals a 10th consecutive appearance in the final, with Tigers overcoming Jim Mallinder's side in last season's Twickenham showpiece.