feverous

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

Confined in hospital three days he lay Fatigued and feverous, but tender hands Nursed and restored him.

From The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems by Gordon, Hanford Lennox

I do fear thee, Claudio; and I quake,      Lest thou a feverous life should'st entertain,      And six or seven winters more respect      Than a perpetual honour.

From Characters of Shakespeare's Plays by Hazlitt, William

Gazing forth from a beach of Dia the billow-resounding, Look'd on a vanish'd fleet, on Theseus quickly departing, Restless in unquell'd passion, a feverous heart, Ariadne.

From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Ellis, Robinson