Example sentences for: frantic

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

  • But the by-now routine procedure of making public the tape of a frantic, teary cry for help has never failed to shock and appall.

  • 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 ...

  • I have used all my personal days and my sick days, which is making me feel trapped and frantic.

  • 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.

  • Citing grand jury testimony, the publication describes how, last Christmas, the "Secret Service became frantic about the possibility of Monica turning up at a White House holiday reception hosted by the First Lady and attended by some 400 guests."


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