How to Use livid in a Sentence

livid

adjective
  • People in the palace were livid.
    — Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Joan is livid, but a meeting with her lawyer gets her nowhere.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2023
  • Now my wife is livid at my older daughter.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Chris is livid and yells about how young everyone at start-ups look.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 31 May 2019
  • Huge swathes of the public seem livid Markle can’t grin and bear it.
    — Raven Smith, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Just a few days earlier, a livid red rash had spread across my cheeks and chin.
    — Jancee Dunn, Vogue, 8 Nov. 2019
  • So to pay for a hotel badge — and not get it — left scores of people livid.
    — Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Egger was so livid over the final vote that a deputy had to ask him to quiet down.
    — Gregory S. Schneider, Anchorage Daily News, 26 July 2023
  • Trump’s scowl was partly buried in a mass of livid, blood-red and bruise-purple brushstrokes.
    — Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
  • Lions coaches were livid and ran onto the field to confront the refs.
    — Darron Patterson, al, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Fultz was livid upon learning about what Jones said Brown told him.
    — Keith Pompey, Philly.com, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Conway was livid, and Ballard said the two of them haven’t spoken since.
    — Trisha Thadani, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Mar. 2018
  • My husband was livid, and drove the three hours to the police station to bail him out and bring him back home.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 10 July 2019
  • My husband was livid, and drove the three hours to the police station to bail him out and bring him back home.
    — Amy Dickinson, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2019
  • As many as two dozen died and Staten Islanders were livid at a botched cleanup.
    — Marcia Kramer, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Tartaglia was livid, even though Cardano acknowledged his work in the book.
    — Quanta Magazine, 30 June 2022
  • While some were livid and others brushed it off, everyone was on the same page about the content.
    — Arika Herron, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The Seasnake, who has lost his wife and his heir to her war, is justifiably livid.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 6 July 2026
  • By this time David is livid, and shouting; the director can’t tell him what’s wrong with the take.
    — Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2021
  • His associate called Beyler, who was livid to learn Lively was still in prison.
    — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Ruth decides to open up about what happened with Tom Grant, and Sam is livid.
    — Kathryn Lindsay, refinery29.com, 29 June 2018
  • The state’s powerful law enforcement unions were livid.
    — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2026
  • When Belmonte didn’t send him the money, Whitehead was livid.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2023
  • Aurangzeb was livid when news reached him in Delhi about what had happened on the Gunsway.
    — Howard Schneider, National Review, 15 Aug. 2020
  • Giants head coach Brian Daboll was livid, and many around the football world weighed in.
    — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Trump was livid about the Fox call, in particular, and lashed out at the network, a source said.
    — Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy, CNN, 5 Nov. 2020
  • The last call of the first half had Steve Donahue absolutely livid.
    — Mike Jensen, Philly.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The crowd inside Moda Center was livid mid-way through the third quarter.
    — Mike Richman, OregonLive.com, 18 Jan. 2018
  • In her response, Stanton was livid and sarcastic.
    — Moira Donegan, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Bengals fans were livid, saying the Chiefs were afraid to face Cincinnati in the playoffs.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2025

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