How to Use fever pitch in a Sentence

fever pitch

noun

• Demand for the new car soon reached fever pitch.
• I worked myself up to a fever pitch of enthusiasm.
• New allegations brought interest in the scandal to a fever pitch.
• By the 1980s, though, pothunting had hit a fever pitch.
  — Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, Washington Post, 8 July 2021
• The buzz around Mel Tucker reached a fever pitch this week.
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 23 Nov. 2021
• Things reached a fever pitch when Drake stayed at the hotel last month.
  — Liam Stack, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2023
• Back and forth the voices went, at fever pitch, a tug-of-war on a rope that is about to snap.
  — ELLE, 24 June 2022
• Tempers may flare as the stress of the season reaches a fever pitch.
  — Elise Hannum, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2022
• As the team nears the end of the 2021 season, questions about the coach’s future have reached a fever pitch.
  — Amanda Kaschube, chicagotribune.com, 12 Dec. 2021
• The downing of the plane came when tensions between Iran and the U.S. had reached a fever pitch.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 31 Dec. 2020
• During the week of the game, preparation will reach a fever pitch.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 3 Feb. 2025
• But the pressures of fame and the fever pitch of fandom can exact its own toll.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
• This year, however, the event’s reach has hit a fever pitch.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2024
• Lucky for him, the demand for proteas has reached fever pitch.
  — Sunset Magazine, 30 Dec. 2021
• But as one feud ends, the teen drama in Barcelona is reaching a fever pitch.
  — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2024
• There's a fever pitch… [and] ugliness that comes with that.
  — David Canfield, EW.com, 24 Sep. 2020
• But these criticisms have reached a fever pitch over the past two years.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 10 Mar. 2021
• The live webcams from explore.org have increased the interest in the bears to a fever pitch.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2022
• The score was tied with 13 minutes left to play and that’s when play reached a fever pitch worthy of a Monon Bell.
  — Ryan Gregory, Indianapolis Star, 16 Nov. 2019
• While Vancouver’s form has listed, the noise around the club has hit a fever pitch over the past week.
  — Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
• For more than a year, crypto mania has been at a fever pitch.
  — New York Times, 15 Jan. 2022
• As his dread and fear reach a fever pitch, we are uneasily forced to choose sides.
  — Jenny Offill, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
• The threats, which had already begun pouring in, reached a fever pitch.
  — ABC News, 3 Nov. 2022
• The tour shattered commercial records and brought the buzz around the singer-songwriter to a fever pitch.
  — Antonio Pequeño Iv, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2023
• Anything written or said about the Princess of Wales at that point was at fever pitch and front page news.
  — Rachel Burchfield, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
• During the pandemic, that process reached a fever pitch.
  — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2023
• Opposition to the plan had by then reached a fever pitch.
  — New York Times, 20 May 2021
• It's been a constant refrain since the start of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 era, but reached a fever pitch in the last year or two.
  — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, 10 June 2018
• The latest trade chatter has focused on Miller and reached a fever pitch.
  — Shayna Goldman, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
• This topic hit fever pitch over the past few days when the actor was flooded with negative comments after images of her in a bikini spread across the internet.
  — Callum Booth, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Mar 2025