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How to use hectic in a sentence

23 example sentences · adjective, noun

Hectic means very busy with activity and confusion. Example: “Her class schedule is really hectic because she's a double major in dance and biochemistry.”

Examples of hectic by meaning

adjectiveVery busy with activity and confusion.

  • The city center is so hectic at 8 in the morning that I go to work an hour beforehand to avoid the crowds
  • Phoenix:It must have been too hectic that night to clean up.2007 March 16, Capcom Production Studio 4, quoting Phoenix, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice for All, Europe: Capcom, →OCLC, Nintendo...

More sentences with hectic

  • Her class schedule is really hectic because she's a double major in dance and biochemistry.From the entry double major
  • My life is so hectic these days that I don't know whether I'm coming or going.From the entry not know whether one is coming or going
  • I sat through the dregs of a long hectic evening.From the entry dregs
  • The hectic day ended in her nerves frayed.From the entry fray
  • When the fires finally come for Whistler, the evacuation process will be hectic, to put it lightly.2023 August 25, Braden Dupuis, “Opinion: The things we leave behind”, in Pique Newsmagazine, Whistler, B.C.: Glacier Media Inc., →ISSN…. From the entry incumbent
  • The motto of the Chinese national government "Become wealthy together!" has created a hectic atmosphere in Shanghai.1999, “Shanghai”, in The Book of the World, 2nd United States edition (Atlas), Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 411, column 1. From the entry capitalism
  • It can get pretty hectic but if the clan is big enough it shouldn't be too bad.1999 April 6, Rob Crossland, “Re: How to join a Clan? etc”, in uk.games.computer.quake2 (Usenet). From the entry praccy
  • SUGGESTION DEPT: In these hectic days of phrase-coining, we offer one.1941 January, "Bob" Tucker, “Archived copy”, in Le Zombie, number 36, archived from the original on 13 May 2008, page 9. From the entry space opera
  • Trina Mather-Simard was already having a hectic week of last-minute errands before someone rear-ended her in the Tim Hortons drive-thru Thursday.2011 June 20, Steve Collins, “Urban Compass: Building an Aboriginal Day for All”, in Metro Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont., page 10, column 1. From the entry Timmys
  • It can get very hectic in the studio, especially when a news story breaks while we are on air.2003, Focus on Africa: BBC Magazine - Volumes 14-15, page 43. From the entry on air
  • Do you fit much PlayStationing into your hectic schedule?2001 May, Chris Stead, “Mat Hoffman”, in Official NZ PlayStation Magazine, number 44, Auckland: ACP Publishing, →OCLC, page 82. From the entry PlayStation
  • They insist they aren't a hardcore band, but their hectic pace and tuneless vocals are certainly in the hardcore vein.1982 August 14, Mary Ann Peacott, Liz Nania, “BT's In Boston”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 5, page 12. From the entry tuneless
  • Their parents soon become the most ingenious babyproofers alive, and live, for these hectic two years, in houses that are battened down like ships.2001, Holly Bennett, Teresa Pitman, The toddler years: from 1 to 3. From the entry babyproofer
  • The hectic history of oil exploitation can show nothing for hecticity to equal the effort of exploitation of the last ten years in Venezuela.1928, The Annalist: A Magazine of Finance, Commerce and Economics, page 453. From the entry hecticity
  • Japandi is a good fit with hectic modern lifestyles, because “these pieces allow people to create a clean, calm environment in which they can truly unwind”.2019 October 21, “The rise of ‘Japandi’ style”, in BBC, archived from the original on 02 May 2024. From the entry Japandi
  • Stretching for three-quarters of a mile (1.2 km) in a gentle crescent, Hac Sa Beach offers Macau residents a seaside retreat from their hectic urban lives.2007, Steven K. Bailey, “Coloane Island: Macau's Countryside”, in Strolling in Macau: A Visitor's Guide to Macau, Taipa, and Coloane…. From the entry Hac Sa
  • DON QUIXOTE DE LA JOLLA is, then, a headlong, hectic, hilarious rush, a frantic comic phantasmagoria on Quixotic themes, that needs no scholar annotations; it is great good fun.1993, Eric Overmyer, Don Quixote de la Jolla. From the entry quixotic
  • If things get a little too hectic and you don't even have time to reach the HOLD key, try taking a short rest below the top of the stairs.1987?, Imagine Software, Legend of Kage (video game instruction leaflet). From the entry hold
  • "Who plants a seed begets a bud, -- Extract of that same root; -- Why marvel at the hectic blood -- That flushes this wild fruit?"1925, Countee Cullen, Fruit of the Flower. From the entry flush
  • Breen the night before that certain dustings and arrangings of furniture should take place, the spacious stairs swept, and the hectic hired palms in their great china pots watered.1908, Francis Hopkinson Smith, Peter: A Novel of Which He Is Not the Hero. From the entry dusting
  • I'm convinced we behave like this because most of us overwait for times of respite, and then we try to cram a month's peace into two weeks of hectic vacationing.2000, Jeff Walling, Daring to Dance With God. From the entry overwait

Meaning of hectic

  1. adjective Very busy with activity and confusion.
  2. adjective Denoting a type of fever accompanying consumption and similar wasting diseases, characterised by flushed cheeks and dry skin.
  3. adjective Pertaining to or symptomatic of such a fever.

Full definition of hectic

Questions about hectic in a sentence

How do you use hectic in a sentence?
Hectic is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “Her class schedule is really hectic because she's a double major in dance and biochemistry.”
What is a short sentence with hectic?
“The hectic day ended in her nerves frayed.”
What does hectic mean?
Hectic means very busy with activity and confusion.

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