How to Use febrile in a Sentence

febrile

adjective

• The mid-1990s was a time of febrile change in the arts in South Korea.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 1 Dec. 2022
• To avoid febrile seizures, the key is to give my daughter Tylenol at the earliest sign of a fever.
  — Zak Jason, Wired, 12 Feb. 2022
• The man in the fedora was Jack Ruby, the febrile strip-club owner and cop buff.
  — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 30 July 2021
• But in such febrile times, one rooster crowing was likely to set off all theothers in the village.
  — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
• To Nunes, the hearings were the latest episode of Democrats’ acting out their febrile dream of forcing Trump from power.
  — David Rohde, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2019
• Trump is going to go after Mueller at some point because there is no other way for Trump’s febrile mind to make sense of the world.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 17 Mar. 2018
• A febrile mood in the country, and the power vacuum in Downing Street, mean that all options are back on the table.
  — The Economist, 22 July 2017
• According to the Mayo Clinic, a febrile seizure is a convulsion in a child that is caused by a fever and occurs in young, healthy kids.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 27 July 2023
• This is surreal idiocy, even from the most febrile Trump-haters.
  — Conrad Black, National Review, 8 Apr. 2020
• What About Febrile Seizures? Between 2% to 5% of children, usually between the ages of 6 months and 5 years, do get seizures when their fevers spike, called febrile seizures.
  — Ada Fenick, M.d., Parents, 20 Sep. 2023
• Certain factors can increase your risk of having more than one febrile seizure.
  — Mark Gurarie, Health, 28 Aug. 2023
• Arsenal's 2-0 win in a febrile atmosphere inside St. James' Park left City with a one-point lead with three weeks left in the season.
  — Steve Douglas, ajc, 7 May 2023
• In the present febrile political climate the tagline of The Report could be read as a clarion call to politicians on both sides of the pond: Truth Matters.
  — Catherine Edwards, Quartzy, 27 Nov. 2019
• The febrile politics of Brexit have raised the prospect — albeit, still remote — of the latter two also breaking away.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022
• Kenneth Whyte brings to life these pioneering days of febrile dramas, dirty tricks, wild stunts and pure genius.
  — Les Hinton, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2018
• Trump cannot help himself, tweeting insults at the screen with a febrile desperation.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2020
• There are two epidemics raging across the U.S. today: the coronavirus and a febrile sense of national failure.
  — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2020
• Cox's murder at the hands of a right-wing extremist came in the days leading up to the 2016 Brexit vote, an issue that has helped stoke divisions and a sometimes febrile mood.
  — NBC News, 16 Oct. 2021
• Each of those diseases can be transmitted from cats to humans through scratches; each can cause a febrile illness and enlarged lymph nodes.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 29 Dec. 2022
• That was the febrile atmosphere on July 4th, when British marines abseiled onto the deck of the Grace 1 in Gibraltarian waters.
  — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
• This place exists in autonomy, in relief, a dry, febrile land of cuboid houses and scrawled horizons.
  — Maya Boyd, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Aug. 2022
• Even for those children who have previously had a febrile seizure, there's no good preventive medicine.
  — Ada Fenick, M.d., Parents, 20 Sep. 2023
• The febrile creativity of a crowd united in anger helps imbue objects and images with meaning.
  — The Economist, 17 June 2020
• Mr. Burton’s febrile intensity gives that film a suggestion of madness, along with sweat and rays of heat, lacking in the remake.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 8 June 2017
• Three prime ministers have governed the Southeast Asian country since a febrile election with a record turnout was fought four years ago on the key issue of corruption.
  — Heather Chen, CNN, 18 Nov. 2022
• The art of guidance is always a delicate dance between realism and optimism, but a misstep in these febrile times can lead to a fall.
  — John D. Stoll, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2019
• For Pan, the greater concern is the impact of increasingly febrile and threatening protests aimed at public servants.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2021
• As Ossoff has moved from underdog to slight favorite, the attacks on him have grown increasingly febrile.
  — Michelle Goldberg, Slate Magazine, 19 June 2017
• The repetitions have become increasingly febrile, with some tweets blaming the vaccines for tens of millions of deaths.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2024
• Hospitals in Cambodia are now required to send the national lab five samples a month from patients with febrile illnesses, and samples from anyone with a severe respiratory illness.
  — Stephanie Nolen Thomas Cristofoletti, New York Times, 21 May 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024