furiously

Adverb

Meaning

(of the elements) in a wild and stormy manner

in an impassioned or very angry manner

in a manner marked by extreme or violent energy

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Examples

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. Noam Chomsky

All the elements will be seen mixed together in a great whirling mass, now borne towards the centre of the world, now towards the sky; and now furiously rushing from the South towards the frozen North, and sometimes from the East towards the West, and then again from this hemisphere to the other. Leonardo da Vinci

Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night, Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes. But will he know where to find you, Recognize you when he sees you, Give you the thing he has for you? John Ashbery

After initially trying to defend his remarks about gun-toting, tabacky-chewing, bitter Jesus freaks, Barack Obama is now backpedaling furiously. Charles Foster Johnson

Hunches [are] just messages from the subconscious, which [is] thinking furiously all the time and processing information we have not consciously noted. Dean Koontz

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics. Hillary Clinton

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