How to Use frenetic in a Sentence

frenetic

adjective
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  • The celebration was noisy and frenetic.
  • In the end, he was born again, closing the show with a frenetic E.D.M. set.
    — Danielle Amir Jackson Malike Sidibe, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Part of the Hawkeyes’ scoring is due to their frenetic pace of play.
    — Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2023
  • But the longer the process takes, the more frenetic a Pac-12 rebuild becomes.
    — Jon Wilner | , oregonlive, 16 Aug. 2023
  • There was a frenetic pounding on the second-floor doors to the chamber and to the gallery doors on the third floor.
    — Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Despite the frenetic energy of each episode, the plot barely seemed to move for the first half of the season.
    — Time, 19 June 2023
  • Run the Jewels came armed with a lights show that was as frenetic as its hard-hitting rhymes.
    — cleveland, 28 July 2022
  • Carmona's goal capped a frenetic finish to the game, with all three goals coming in an eight-minute span.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Thanks to the frenetic finger-pointing, the facts have not caught up to his myth-making–until now.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 14 June 2023
  • This is exactly the kind of frenetic garbage that the Academy voters love to have win.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 26 Jan. 2023
  • While it wasn’t publicized and lacked the crowds of December Nights, the pace was less frenetic — and there was parking.
    — Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The Rangers decision caps a frenetic week in which Heim seemed to take big steps forward daily.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Proust’s frenetic, sprawling sentences can be hundreds of words long, but admirers of his work say the length is part of the point.
    — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Within an hour of that first whistle, frenetic pinks and whites flashed beside the chartreuse streaks.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The courthouse was less frenetic on the second day of trial, with fewer viewers in the overflow rooms.
    — Trisha Thadani, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
  • A lot of her frenetic, scatty energy came from Bronte Carmichael, who was the voice performer for Robin.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 21 Jan. 2024
  • The restaurant’s early days, during which the tables were filled with the likes of Johnny Carson and Suzanne Pleshette, were frenetic.
    — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Dec. 2023
  • The second round can be frenetic, with just two minutes between each pick.
    — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
  • But those won’t be ready for the frenetic summer travel season.
    — Christopher Elliott, Dallas News, 31 May 2023
  • The vocals are great and the contrast between the approach to the verses and the frenetic guitar parts in the choruses is really good.
    — Shaun Morgan, SPIN, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The Michelin-star chef strives to fix the frenetic pressure cooker of a restaurant while coming to terms with his late brother's death.
    — Jacqueline Saguin, Good Housekeeping, 6 Aug. 2022
  • The Seals and Wings combined for nine goals in the final period, a frenetic finish that ended with San Diego on top.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Trump has become one in the course of his frenetic efforts to bludgeon Ron DeSantis with any weapon at hand.
    — The Editors, National Review, 1 June 2023
  • Golden State’s one-time frenetic offense looks slow and stale.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The pacing is frenetic, with one fight scene spilling over into the next and timeouts no bigger than the space between dominoes.
    — Amy Nicholson, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The editing process, in any case, led to an ever shorter, more frenetic, cut, getting rid of anything that wasn’t fiber.
    — Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The action of being frenetic and trying to search for your legally winning gotcha was old hat.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The first quarter was played at a frenetic pace, but that also produced plenty of misses.
    — Rudy Chinchilla, NBC News, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The frenetic pace of progress in generative AI is at odds with worries about the risks the technology might pose.
    — Will Knight, WIRED, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The key will be handling New Mexico’s full-court pressure and frenetic pace.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024

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