How to use frantic in a sentence

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• The crew sent a frantic SOS as they realised the scale of the disaster.From the entry sos
• She desperately yelled at her young daughter, frantic to make her realize what she had done.From the entry realize
• I knocked on a few random editor's doors, but was met by frantic stares and hurried brushoffs.From the entry brushoffs
• She made a frantic attempt to neaten her hair.From the entry neaten
• But Boyle and his four musketeers give it just the right frantic, jaded energy and manic anxiety.2017 January 19, Peter Bradshaw, “T2 Trainspotting review – choose a sequel that doesn't disappoint”, in the Guardian. From the entry musketeer
• It quickly cycloned into a sort of frantic agitation with all-nighters, near misses, and frenzied nerves.2015, Robert J. Morgan, Mastering Life Before It's Too Late. From the entry cyclone
• After FIFA’s about-turn, it must have been a frantic few days for the England kit manufacturer.2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England 5, Iceland 0: under 21 match report”, in The Telegraph. From the entry altogether
• After Fifa’s about-turn, it must have been a frantic few days for the England kit manufacturer.2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report”, in Telegraph. From the entry kit
• Raw hatred beat down, tearing through the last shreds of her frantic prayers.2009, John B. Olson, Powers. From the entry pridesome
• The frantic olive-branching of America while consistently berating black men has worn me down.2007, William Jelani Cobb, The Devil and Dave Chappelle: And Other Essays, page 15. From the entry olive-branch
• Hurrying, now, a family in frantic flight: after them the clattering of jackbooted feet.2006, Shira Nayman, “Dark Urgings of the Blood”, in Awake in the Dark: Stories, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 233. From the entry jackbooted
• We grabbed each other, roughly kissing and tossing covers and pillows about in our frantic lovemaking.2005, Charles E. Schwarz, The Lonely Detective Gets Nasty and Other Murder Mysteries - Page 65. From the entry foreplay
• That Asian-American actor Thomas Ikeda contributes a pleasingly frantic Panthino would not be considered rainbow enough.1994, John Simon, Of Dogs, Their Masters, and Others, in New York magazine, September 5 1994, page 51. From the entry rainbow
• Only Grump managed to bawl a frantic order to Herman. ‘Let us go, you mad maypole!1986, Derek Sampson, Grump Goes Galumphing, London: Methuen Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 65. From the entry let us go
• Sydney is a fast city, and the pace is becoming increasingly more frantic.1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 15. From the entry fast
• I hear that Conan Doyle “fans” are frantic to add the Frank fake to their Sherlock Holmesiana.1929 April 15, “News Notes From Abroad”, in Asbury Park Evening Press, forty-third year, number 89, Asbury Park, N.J., page 10, column 4. From the entry Sherlock Holmesiana
• It was a wordy, disconnected, frantic letter, a drunken letter in fact.1912, Fyodor Dostoevsky, “The Second Visit to Smerdyakov”, in Constance Garnett, transl., The Brothers Karamazov […], New York, N.Y.: The…. From the entry insult
• Whether Leo Blair is jabbed or unjabbed matters less than his father's frantic attempts to avoid telling us which.2018, Roger Neighbour, I'm Too Hot Now: Themes and Variations from General Practice. From the entry unjabbed
• Satisfied with my prowess as a dip-netter, I dunked the quivering mass and let them continue on their frantic run.2013, Joe Fitzgerald, Chasing Pisces in Nova Scotia: An Angling Odyssey, →ISBN. From the entry dip-netter
• 'Japanese nightlife can be frantic,' Joanna said, 'but they start to roll up the sidewalks early by Western standards.'2012, Dean Koontz, The Key to Midnight: A gripping thriller of heart-stopping suspense, →ISBN. From the entry roll up the sidewalks
• Her graceful turns and leaps became more and more frantic and less graceful, and the last cleaving strike sent her rolling.2010, Allen Williams, The Witches' Kitchen, Little Brown, →ISBN, pages 67-68. From the entry cleaving
• In a state of panic I would reach unbelievable speeds in frantic, lung-bursting attempts to outcycle the ferocious beasts.2009, James O'Reilly, Larry Habegger, Travelers' Tales India: True Stories, page 220. From the entry outcycle
• Frantic Purification can be sideboarded to destroy an enchantment, but it shouldn't be drafted unless you have no choice.2002, Steve Frohnhoefer, Michael Searle, Magic: The Gathering Online : Prima's Official Strategy Guide. From the entry sideboard
• The Moroder-tinged Automatic is as frantic as the ethereal Speechless is haunting, each using ambient breakbeats for equally effective mindwashes.2001 April 14, Nick Lewis, “Wave Of Light By Wave Of Light”, in Edmonton Journal, page C3. From the entry mindwash
• Instinct told him to climb up on the kitchen sink, but the frantic detective soon realized he was still vulnerable.1998 October 30, CW, “A Halloween Story...”, in alt.music.rush (Usenet). From the entry boogerball
• She grabbed at her maidenhair as the garment eluded her frantic grasp and formed a puddle of cloth at her feet.1989, Robert Solotaroff, Bernard Malamud: A Study of the Short Fiction, page 116. From the entry maidenhair
• Making our way past a one-girl switchboard temporarily girled by two frantic operators, we found the victorious president, Elliott A.1949, The New Yorker. From the entry girl
• Then the audience and the actor would listen desperately for the frantic, shushy promptings of the nun in the wings.1947, Joseph Dever, No Lasting Home, page 34. From the entry shushy
• Fresh off a frantic election cycle, the former Fetterman campaign social media producer — and dedicated Swiftie — takes time to shake it off.2022 December 17, Judith Newman, “John Fetterman’s TikTok Whisperer”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry swiftie
• His stomach convulses and he wants to vomit, but a frantic fragment of his brain hasn't panicked yet and tells him, Wait.2019 April 10, qntm, “CASE HATE RED”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 138. From the entry reel
• And though convinced she was making a fool of herself, she'd done as the frantic monk had begged, red-eyeing to Miami, island-hopping here.2011, Glenn Kleier, chapter 7, in The Knowledge of Good & Evil, New York, N.Y.: Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 37. From the entry red-eye
• Tweets and Facebook status updates are not reflections composed at day's end but frantic one-liner descriptions of atomistic moments, when they are diaristic at all.2011 November 6, Steven Poole, The Guardian. From the entry diaristic
• I head for the door, but instantly the bumping, gurgling diesel sound gets louder, grindier, it becomes more frantic, and I do too.2008, Chris Lynch, “Game On”, in The Big Game of Everything, New York, N.Y.: HarperTeen, →ISBN, page 264. From the entry grindy
• I spent the next frantic seconds (felt like a year, actually) trying to disentangle myself from the pole while the crowd and the contestants guffawed.2005 December 29, Diablo Cody, Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper, Gotham, →ISBN, →OL, page 26. From the entry shazbot
• The narrator's use of erotema would seem to be a frantic rhetorical attempt to encourage acceptance in his audience of the theory of perversity .2005, Brett Zimmerman, Edgar Allan Poe: Rhetoric and Style, page 211. From the entry erotema
• Madeleina di Farja had described Ori, and Cutter had envisaged an angry, frantic, pugnacious boy eager to fight, excoriating his comrades for supposed quiescence.2004, China Miéville, Iron Council, Trade paperback edition, published 2005, →ISBN, page 464. From the entry excoriate
• A frantic clutching between her legs.2003, Elizabeth George, “I, Richard”, in I, Richard, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 196. From the entry tonguely
• The cold wind blew in again through the front door, and with a desperate, frantic energy Evelyn stretched both her arms around the bowl.1920 May, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, “The Cut-Glass Bowl”, in Flappers and Philosophers, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC…. From the entry taut

Meaning of frantic

1. adjective Insane, mentally unstable.
2. adjective In a state of panic, worry, frenzy, or rush.
3. adjective Extremely energetic.

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Questions about frantic in a sentence

How do you use frantic in a sentence?

Frantic is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “They returned the missing child to his frantic mother.”

What is a short sentence with frantic?

“A frantic clutching between her legs.”

What does frantic mean?

Frantic means insane, mentally unstable.