frantic

Example Sentences

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At around 11 p.m. on a rainy night, Sukraj Rai, 42, a schoolteacher in Rangpo Forest, began getting frantic calls warning him that the Teesta was rising and that the Chungthang dam had broken.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

But from there, elation turned to frustration when Ryan Manning's foul on Czech skipper Ladislav Krejci enabled Patrik Schick to slot home a momentum-swinging penalty in a frantic first half.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

So in the frantic hours before officers took her parents away to immigration detention, her mom turned to their pastor and his wife.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

Twice in the last 50 years, crises in the Mideast, one of them centered in Iran, have turned Americans into frantic hunter-gatherers for another necessity: fuel for their gas tanks.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

We agreed that the Wall Street CEO had no real ability to keep track of the frantic innovation occurring inside his firm.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis