How to Use frenetic in a Sentence

frenetic

adjective
  • The celebration was noisy and frenetic.
  • Their lives were frenetic, their schedules controlled by their jobs.
    Joanne Lipman, Time, 27 May 2021
  • Perhaps all the frenetic activity in the meeting is the very thing that prevents you from coming up with ideas.
    Nicole Lipkin, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
  • People are more and more worried that the Fed's frenetic money-printing is going to cause price hikes for goods across the board.
    Robert Hackett, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2021
  • The climax needs to pay off all the tension that’s been building, often in a frenetic burst of action or revelation.
    Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The dining room was a bit frenetic, especially with crying babies at two tables.
    Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 1 Nov. 2024
  • These three best practices will ensure employees — and their organizations — are equipped to keep up with the frenetic pace of change.
    Alex Adamopoulos, Forbes, 1 June 2021
  • The first three months of 2021 were a frenetic period for banks’ capital markets and trading arms.
    Peter Rudegeair, WSJ, 14 Apr. 2021
  • The duo were reinvigorated by their hiatus, playing live shows with the kind of frenetic energy that had become their trademark.
    Hanif Abdurraqib, New York Times, 26 May 2021
  • Thankfully, the pacing of Saturday’s second set was more focused and less frenetic.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2021
  • The frenetic trading around the stock often seems to bear little correlation to its business fundamentals.
    Dan Mangan,kevin Breuninger,jake Piazza,annie Nova,rebecca Picciotto,ece Yildirim, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The episode’s frenetic pace is amped up by periodic updates about Hal, Stuart, and Ronnie.
    Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
  • This frenetic form of diplomacy is notable not only for its lack of progress so far and for its piecemeal and fragmentary nature but also for its considerable scale and scope.
    Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2024
  • In the end, he was born again, closing the show with a frenetic E.D.M. set.
    Danielle Amir Jackson Malike Sidibe, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Part of the Hawkeyes’ scoring is due to their frenetic pace of play.
    Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2023
  • But the longer the process takes, the more frenetic a Pac-12 rebuild becomes.
    Jon Wilner | , oregonlive, 16 Aug. 2023
  • There was a frenetic pounding on the second-floor doors to the chamber and to the gallery doors on the third floor.
    Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Even so, the lens avoids the frenetic, soap bubble look.
    PCMAG, 6 June 2024
  • Despite the frenetic energy of each episode, the plot barely seemed to move for the first half of the season.
    Time, 19 June 2023
  • In that span was a frenetic back and forth between the teams as the Bears made steals and hit clutch shots to somehow extend the game.
    Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Run the Jewels came armed with a lights show that was as frenetic as its hard-hitting rhymes.
    cleveland, 28 July 2022
  • Carmona's goal capped a frenetic finish to the game, with all three goals coming in an eight-minute span.
    Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Thanks to the frenetic finger-pointing, the facts have not caught up to his myth-making–until now.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 14 June 2023
  • The last few months have been frenetic for this former Louisville standout.
    Shannon Russell, The Courier-Journal, 15 Aug. 2021
  • One of the most frenetic duels of all-time ended on the flip of a coin to decide which team would get the ball to begin overtime.
    Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2022
  • In the frenetic world of Borderlands, that is a tall order.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Much of the plot is too frenetic to parse, the dubbing is painfully bad, and the acting feels amateurish at the best of times.
    Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
  • After a frenetic early half of the stage, a breakaway formed with 34 riders in it, among them O’Connor.
    Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 28 Aug. 2024
  • This is exactly the kind of frenetic garbage that the Academy voters love to have win.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 26 Jan. 2023
  • While it wasn’t publicized and lacked the crowds of December Nights, the pace was less frenetic — and there was parking.
    Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Dec. 2022

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