feverish

Example Sentences

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But he didn’t have the expressive variety to make the horror of Hercules’ death scene match lines like “Along my feverish veins, like liquid fire, the subtle poison hastes.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

Her take is a maelstrom of splendid beauty and doomed love, colliding at a feverish pace that makes the fidelity to Brontë’s book moot.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2026

The final round had both swinging for the rafters and the crowd rose to their feet in feverish anticipation.

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2026

The run-up has seen none of the feverish public rallies that Suu Kyi could command, with just a smattering of low-key events.

From Barron's • Dec. 23, 2025

Suddenly, without warning, his feverish activity was interrupted and was replaced by a kind of fascination.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez