frantically

adverb

fran·ti·cal·ly ˈfran-ti-k(ə-)lē

: in a frantic manner : in a nervously hurried, desperate, or panic-stricken way

[Carlton] Fisk stood several feet down the line, frantically urging the ball fair with his hands. It hit the yellow foul pole above the wall, a home run.—

Ron Fimrite

Wine companies, fearing that younger drinkers are slipping out of their grasp, have been frantically trying to create products that will be viewed as edgy, hip and fun.—

Mitch Frank

During the new moon, a hatch of baby sea turtles erupts from the sand, struggling frantically to get to the ocean.—

Bernice Notenboom

Examples of frantically in a Sentence

the veterinarian ran frantically from room to room looking for the escaped hamster

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Another pup in the background is shown frantically jumping around on a sofa while rubbing its paws against a blanket. —

Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025 The Student Academy Awards gold medal winner is about a meteor crash and a sushi restaurant mascot dressed as a fish who frantically rushes to a clock tower before the end of the world. —

Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 3 Jan. 2025 The parents began frantically contacting hospitals and eventually ended up at a family reunification center at the University Medical Center hospital. —

Samira Asma-Sadeque, People.com, 2 Jan. 2025 Alice, who’d turned in their own thesis a week earlier but had been frantically putting together a thesis presentation, turned to me. —

Reia Li, The Arizona Republic, 31 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for frantically