Example sentences for: hectic

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

  • Go spend every waking hour with your kids, and bitch about your hectic life in eighteen years.

  • A story explains the success of Southwest Airlines: quick flight turnarounds (they ready a plane in 20 minutes instead of the standard 45), less hectic airports (Providence and Baltimore, not Boston and D.C.), and the enthusiasm of its employees (they adore fun-loving president Herb Kelleher).

  • While we're at it, why not outlaw all words and expressions we've purloined over the years from specialized fields--such as melancholy, hectic, chronic , and allergic (medicine); leading question , time is of the essence (law); by and large, high and dry, slush fund, round robin, aloof (sailing); ego, extrovert, complex, phobia, psyche, depression, trauma, subconscious (same place as empathy); and many more of what Fowler called popularized technicalities.

  • But you're right, my confusion and your criticism of Hirsch's hectic pace point to the need for a serious discussion about a standardized curriculum, and what it might look like, which Bennett, et al.

  • The hectic operations of the fishing industry used to take place here right under the noses of vacationers, with a frenetic “bucket-brigade” hauling wicker baskets of fresh fish up from the boat holds to ice trays and waiting trucks, right next to dockside dining tables.


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