feverish

Example Sentences

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Before his senior year, he could become the centerpiece of a feverish bidding war between blue blood programs.

From The Wall Street Journal

She still had received no examination or medicine of any kind and her forehead felt feverish to my touch.

From Literature

But he didn’t have the expressive variety to make the horror of Hercules’ death scene match lines like “Along my feverish veins, like liquid fire, the subtle poison hastes.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Propped up in a Cincinnati hotel bed, a hacking, feverish Calvin Brown made a sudden marriage proposal to his “dear sister” Leah.

From Literature

Her take is a maelstrom of splendid beauty and doomed love, colliding at a feverish pace that makes the fidelity to Brontë’s book moot.

From Salon