feverous
Example Sentences
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Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is taking home a gold medal in the Paris Olympic Games, defeating China’s Yang Liu in the welterweight category after feverous attacks on her gender.
From Salon • Aug. 9, 2024
It was a 6-on-4 for the Rangers, whose feverous push to force overtime wouldn’t be denied.
From Washington Post • May 8, 2012
A meek and shy quietest, his intellectual powers were never stimulated into feverous energy by crowds of proselytes, or by the ambition of proselyting.
From Biographia Literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
The minister's face was pale as the horse that grew gray when Death mounted him; and his eyes shone with a feverous brilliancy.
From Paul Faber, Surgeon by MacDonald, George
O, I do fear thee, Claudio; and I quake, Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual honour.
From Measure for Measure by Shakespeare, William
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
