frantic
Example Sentences
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“The frantic futility of constantly searching for a new place,” he wrote his longtime friend, Johnny Dark, “a new life, a new partner. As though change itself were some kind of elixir.”
The game had started at a frantic pace.
From Barron's
One can appreciate the contrast between the serenity of the brothers at the stake, heads raised in prayer, and the frantic, distressed attempts by the surrounding figures to evade the flames.
We've all seen what happened to Fox, Trump's vassal network, when they dared to report that the election was not stolen by the Democrats and their frantic attempts to contain the damage.
From Salon
His quiet knowledge of his own weakness is also why Trump got increasingly frantic in the weeks before his indictment, in a separate case involving campaign finance fraud, in New York City in March.
From Salon
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