feverish
Example Sentences
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Nearly five years on from its premiere, every morsel of information about Mike White’s addictive HBO series is still met with feverish excitement.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026
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
“No one who was in the United States as I chanced to be…” wrote a British journalist, “will forget the feverish condition of the public mind at the time.”
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
Vocabulary lists containing feverish
"All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury
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The Suffix -ish, Part 3
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