Example sentences for: feverish

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

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

  • They have been replaced by Free Marketeering and Learjet Leasing, but only in my feverish khaki-clad imagination.

  • "These bad-ass ladies roll out rude, Ace Frehley-inspired guitar hooks at a feverish rate, capturing the rebellious, mischievous and instantly gratifying rock 'n' roll spirit of teenage trash culture" (Glen Sansone, CMJ ). As all members of the band are under legal drinking age, the lyrics touch on subjects such as driving around on the neighbor's lawn, hanging out by the Slurpee machine, and looking at cute guys.

  • Written during a feverish tuberculosis fit when Chekhov was in his early 20s, titles include: "On the Train," "Sarah Bernhardt Comes to Town," "From the Diary of an Assistant Bookkeeper," and "Elements Most Often Found in Novels, Short Stories, Etc." A story reports from a funeral directors' convention--they see big business in millions of aging baby boomers.

  • 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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