Example sentences for: frantic

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

  • Director Alan Rudolph gets credit for trying to adapt Kurt Vonnegut's beloved novel, but critics agree that the result is a "frenzied film that seems both dated and dead on arrival" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone ). Stephen Holden of the New York Times writes that it "looks and feels like a frantic live-action psychedelic cartoon ...

  • Your 1½-year-old grandson was sick and kept us up half the night (nothing serious, luckily, and now he's tearing around the house like usual), so if this were a real breakfast table, my conversation would not be rising very far above occasional groans, grunts, and frantic gestures towards the coffee pot.

  • In spite of the frantic bed-shifting, they were delighted to have an English guest to display.

  • Hard to tell: The light is too glaring; the man's frantic gestures too alien.

  • Lewinsky, the Globe explains, is in the midst of a "frantic food frenzy"; the paper even provides a helpful restaurant diary that details where she has been spotted and just what she has indulged in.


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