How to Use frazzled in a Sentence

frazzled

adjective

• That’s why one country is allowing doctors to write prescriptions for four-week spa breaks for frazzled moms and dads.
  — Meghan Pryce, CNN, 1 Aug. 2024
• Many of us eat poorly, drink excessively, and miss out on sleep between June and August, leaving us more frazzled than usual.
  — Kyle MacNeill, Vogue, 15 July 2024
• However, in his frazzled state the Sabbath singer got confused and went to the wrong room to crash.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 27 Feb. 2023
• Gino is in her mid-forties, with dark curly hair and a frazzled aspect.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
• The Sacramento Bee is in search of our tired, our worn, our frazzled masses yearning to sleep free.
  — Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 24 May 2024
• A little pride, a little chutzpah changed the tenor on the court from frazzled and small to proud and intentional.
  — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
• This seedy summit set the tone for the frazzled and fractured frisson that is our nation today.
  — Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
• Case in point: Maya Hawke joins the series as the frazzled newcomer Anxiety.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 16 Jan. 2024
• Without an instrument in hand, Eli Gelb got in, too, as the ’70s rock group’s frazzled sound engineer.
  — Scott Heller, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2024
• Sydney, who was left frazzled and hearing the phantom printer long after the orders stopped coming in, left the kitchen to go throw up her nerves in the alley.
  — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 June 2023
• Torres gifts Swinton with a frazzled but larger-than-life character and the Oscar-winning actor — one of the best in the business — makes the most of it.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2024
• Some creative people wrestle with the whys and hows of responding to the frazzled and fractured period in which we’re mired.
  — David Marchesephoto Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
• Now is the time to focus on how to feel less frazzled on the reg and sort things out, according to Donna Page, a certified astrologer in Atlanta.
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 17 Feb. 2023
• So my strategy that week was to lay as low as possible, but also not to seem too frazzled or too worried.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 6 Oct. 2023
• In that sense, our frazzled and fractious modern era hasn’t been helpful for empathy.
  — Chris Taylor, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2021
• And yet as a frazzled working parent, revamping it is the barnacle stuck at the bottom of my never-ending to-do list.
  — Kathryn O'Shea-Evans, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
• Eyes shut, an exhausted Josef Newgarden slowly wiped his hand through his frazzled hair and tried to focus his mind on the question.
  — Jim Ayello, The Indianapolis Star, 4 July 2020
• Beyond the fashion, Tomlinson had a fresh take on the notion of re-parenting yourself as a frazzled, single self-mother.
  — Vulture, 1 Apr. 2022
• Michelin has designated the restaurant as Bib Gourmand, and its famous omelet—golden, gooey, and studded with sweet-salty bivalves—is a dish of frazzled majesty.
  — Tom Parker Bowles, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 July 2024
• The featherweight eye cream includes chamomile for depuffing, hyaluronic acid for hydration, and thermal spring water to calm frazzled skin.
  — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 July 2022
• The rest of the month will provide plenty of opportunity to restore equilibrium to your frazzled nerves and settle back into healthy rhythms for your body.
  — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Oct. 2023
• People are warm and friendly, even the somewhat frazzled organizers.
  — Julia Cho, New York Times, 21 May 2024
• Romanova, who worked in the debris alongside the others, wore a red headscarf and an exhausted expression and was too frazzled to even estimate her losses.
  — Hanna Arhirova, Chicago Tribune, 30 July 2023
• Maintaining the status quo means failing to address the problem, and letting the burden of drug shortages fall on frazzled pharmacists—and sick children and panicked parents who can do nothing but wait.
  — WIRED, 11 Jan. 2023
• The frazzled writer eventually gets to Grand Central, where an initially frosty station attendant informs her that service has been slashed and there won’t be another train for hours.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2022
• There are plenty of ways to give priority to connection, even in this frazzled moment, says Shasta Nelson, a speaker and author of books about how to cultivate friendship in our personal lives and at work.
  — Rachel Feintzeig, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2023
• America Ferrera and Ariana Greenblatt play a frazzled mother and her sardonic teen daughter, who've drifted apart over time.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 18 July 2023
• What does seem clear is that, on this set and likely on many others, Gutierrez-Reed was one of countless crew members who were underpaid, overworked, harangued by equally frazzled supervisors, and pushed to cut corners to save money and time.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 13 July 2024
• The filmmaker’s visual direction is as strong as ever, with immersive long takes and dazzling shot selections that nobody else would think of, while Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning excel as the frazzled father and daughter at the story’s heart.
  — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 27 Mar. 2024
• Other academic top brass also take a bow, notably the philosopher Frederik Christian Sibbern — who comes across as exactly the frazzled, approachable good guy he is reputed to have been — in a virtuosic graphite drawing by Kobke.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024