Example sentences for: feverish

How can you use “feverish” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In five feverish hours, CIA experts edited and optically manipulated the film to mask what had really happened.

  • All levels of society share a feverish interest in the Sport of Kings.

  • David Denby has expressed the disappointment of a generation of critics who entered the field during the feverish, Kael-inspired '70s: Once upon a time they wanted to grab readers by the hand and lead them to passionate works of art, but no one would aim so high today.

  • Praise goes to Kirstie Alley, who plays an aging ex-model now in the lingerie business: "Less frenetic than Lucy, more mature than Mary" (Richard Corliss, Time ). The Washington Post 's Tom Shales dissents, calling Alley unwatchably neurotic and "in a virtually perpetual feverish tizzy."

  • According to John Kenneth Galbraith's The Great Crash , financial speculation during the 1920s grew so feverish that "even the cathedral voice of William Jennings Bryan, which once had thundered against the cross of gold," was "enlisted in the sorry task of selling swampland" in Florida.


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