How to Use feverish in a Sentence

feverish

adjective
  • She was feeling tired and feverish.
  • He had a feverish appearance.
  • His bride-to-be is feverish, but seems to be on the mend.
    Matt Cabral, EW.com, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The new season is here, and the pace again promises to be feverish.
    Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2022
  • And acquisitions have reached a feverish pace in the past two to three years.
    Markian Hawryluk, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Other fans plan to sleep on cruise ships or camp out in the desert amid a feverish rush for rooms in Doha.
    Jon Gambrell, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Each year at this time, there’s a feverish rush to the farmers market to grab sour cherries.
    Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2022
  • On the last night on the ship, Johnson started feeling feverish.
    Renata Geraldo, Anchorage Daily News, 14 June 2022
  • Edge-of-your-seat ‘90s action fun with an electric cast and feverish pace.
    Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The road of every pop singer’s feverish onstage dance routine leads back to her.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2023
  • The promise of spoiler reveals only added to the feverish hype.
    Lindsey Bahr, ajc, 19 Dec. 2021
  • Early the next day, Hewitt was feverish, and his leg was swollen, said Delano, 54.
    Julian Mark, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The promise of spoiler reveals only added to the feverish hype that led to lines and sell-out showings across the country.
    Lindsey Bahr, chicagotribune.com, 19 Dec. 2021
  • Morse took on more shifts, added extra clients and worked at a feverish pace until his nest egg grew enough to purchase a horse.
    Lateshia Beachum, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2022
  • In England, the buildup to a soccer World Cup is normally feverish.
    Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
  • But the original indie single has a raw, feverish rush of its own.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2021
  • The Fed has hiked rates at such a feverish pace over the last year that it's already slowed parts of the economy and caused strains to appear in the banking system.
    CBS News, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Wall Street has enjoyed a second straight year of feverish revenue growth.
    Charley Grant, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Some people feel a little feverish or tired for a day; most have no symptoms beyond a sore arm.
    The Boston Globe, Quartz, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Spiking mortgage rates have cooled years of feverish demand for homes across the county.
    Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Feb. 2024
  • By Thursday, her brother-in-law was feverish, achy and coughing.
    Renata Geraldo, Anchorage Daily News, 14 June 2022
  • A lot of people are just trying to hit a baseline of not throwing up and sweating and being feverish.
    Janine Rubenstein, Peoplemag, 19 Jan. 2024
  • That leaves little space for coughing fits and feverish head tosses.
    Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2021
  • That album, powered by a feverish media buzz and extensive touring, made the Strokes one of the hottest bands in the world within a year, and the NYC rock scene boomed.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 9 Sep. 2021
  • There was a feverish energy to the way the Cardinals responded as the first-half clock dipped below one minute to go.
    Katherine Fominykh, Baltimore Sun, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Tidal teased details of a new album from the singer that has set off feverish speculation amongst fans.
    Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2022
  • Amazon has more than 1 million employees around the world and is hiring at a feverish pace.
    Blake Morgan, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
  • About two weeks after flying back to her dorm room, still on the treatment, Prince felt feverish, weak and immobile.
    New York Times, 29 May 2021
  • Texans were feverish over lottery tickets this year, shattering state records for the 12th year in a row.
    Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Both these records were a very fertile stretch of feverish writing after two years of not being able to do anything at all.
    Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 28 Dec. 2023

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