US /ˈfjʊərɪəslɪ/
・UK /'fjʊərɪəslɪ/
"Bowwowowowowowowow!" A dog came running toward us, barking furiously. The cats ran away in all directions.
The dog came running toward us, barking furiously.
The first player to fling off their shades and gloves by furiously dancing wins the round.
The first player to fling off their shades and gloves by furiously dancing wins the round.
He ran to a corner of the garden and started to dig furiously.
He ran to a corner of the garden and started to dig furiously.
Even as he neared the end of his life, Einstein kept a notepad close at hand, furiously trying to come up with the equations for what would come to be known as the theory of everything.
Furiously trying to come up with the equations
immune to the sedative they had given him in preparation for surgery. He fought furiously
Soon, only the unemployed are idle; everyone else is working away furiously.
Soon, only the unemployed are idle. Everyone else is working way furiously.
I think there's a couple of sort of areas which researchers around the world are furiously trying to attack.
are furiously trying to attack.
The neutrophils fight so furiously that they kill healthy cells in the process.
The neutrophils fight so furiously that they kill healthy cells in the process.
Now, the only quotation that I know of, of a linguist that has actually made it into Bartlett's familiar quotations, is the following sentence from Chomsky from 1956: "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously." Well, what's the point of that sentence?
Compare, for example, "Furiously sleep ideas green colorless," which is also meaningless, but we perceive as word salad.