How to Use frenetic in a Sentence

frenetic

adjective

• The celebration was noisy and frenetic.
• Instead of dwelling on them, write them out longhand; this will slow down and moderate their frenetic pace.
  — Katherine Cusumano, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2020
• That turned out to be nothing, though, compared to the frenetic, unbelievable pace and turn of events as to how this game ended.
  — Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 26 Oct. 2020
• The stress is considerable, the pace frenetic, the potential for mistakes high.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 31 Oct. 2020
• All too often in the postseason spotlight, Jackson has looked frenetic and frustrated.
  — Jeff Zrebiec, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
• That same impulse underlies his frenetic prophecies of American doom.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2020
• There was the frenetic April election, in the first wave of the pandemic, when there was a shortage of poll workers and a high level of public fear and anxiety.
  — Annysa Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Oct. 2020
• Intelligence from the third quarter is crucial in determining whether frenetic gains can continue.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 29 Oct. 2020
• The action was so frenetic that the dull parts of Test matches, lulls that often exist when one team is in complete control, were basically eradicated.
  — Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
• Fashion’s frenetic and chaotic history from the 1960s to the present comes to light in this second gallery, reflected and folding back over itself.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2020
• Things became even more frenetic in the third quarter when Murray led the Cardinals on a 93-yard touchdown drive capped by his 5-yard scoring run.
  — Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 26 Oct. 2020
• But by the final, frenetic sprint of the 2020 race, the world had long peered into the country's darkest corners and seen a battered and haunted image staring back.
  — Laurie Kellman, Star Tribune, 1 Nov. 2020
• 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
• The last few months have been frenetic for this former Louisville standout.
  — Shannon Russell, The Courier-Journal, 15 Aug. 2021
• 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
• The three women thus embark on a frenetic race in search of freedom.
  — Sheena Scott, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
• 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
• Unlike the frenetic scene during last year's tragedy, roads are no longer blocked off and there are no markings around the crash site.
  — USA Today, 24 Jan. 2021
• 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

Last Updated: 1 Feb 2025