How to Use frenetic in a Sentence

frenetic

adjective

• The celebration was noisy and frenetic.
• Pircher is short, with long blond hair, and a frenetic social energy.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
• As a duo, Gutes and Banse are ebullient, charming, frenetic—exactly the qualities in two young women that rub all the olds and scolds the wrong way.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 9 Sep. 2021
• As the contract expiration nears, cargo certainly has been flowing into the West Coast ports at a frenetic pace.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 19 Sep. 2024
• There’s something to be said for living more slowly in a society that’s increasingly frenetic and socially isolated.
  — Patrick Lin, Professor Of Philosophy, Discover Magazine, 6 Sep. 2024
• Investment in cybersecurity startups has risen at a frenetic pace.
  — Dr. Oren Eytan, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2021
• Yet despite all of this frenetic activity, the larger reality remains unchanged.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 31 Aug. 2021
• Her frenetic energy on defense has worn down offenses and her willingness to compile 30-point shooting performances when needed has kept the Aces in games.
  — New York Times, 22 Sep. 2021
• 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
• Even so, the lens avoids the frenetic, soap bubble look.
  — PCMAG, 6 June 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
• In that span was a frenetic back and forth between the teams as the Bears made steals and hit clutch shots to somehow extend the game.
  — Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2022
• 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
• One of the most frenetic duels of all-time ended on the flip of a coin to decide which team would get the ball to begin overtime.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2022
• In the frenetic world of Borderlands, that is a tall order.
  — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2024
• Much of the plot is too frenetic to parse, the dubbing is painfully bad, and the acting feels amateurish at the best of times.
  — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
• After a frenetic early half of the stage, a breakaway formed with 34 riders in it, among them O’Connor.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 28 Aug. 2024
• 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
• Tesla options have changed hands at a frenetic pace of late.
  — Joe Wallace, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2021
• 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
• With young players on the field for both teams down the stretch, neither was able to get on the board despite some frenetic offensive play.
  — oregonlive, 13 Feb. 2022
• Within an hour of that first whistle, frenetic pinks and whites flashed beside the chartreuse streaks.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2023
• Robust, busy, frenetic, surprising: Nut art is termite art and termite art is chipmunk art.
  — Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024