frantic
Example Sentences
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“The frantic futility of constantly searching for a new place,” he wrote his longtime friend, Johnny Dark, “a new life, a new partner. As though change itself were some kind of elixir.”
The game had started at a frantic pace.
From Barron's
One can appreciate the contrast between the serenity of the brothers at the stake, heads raised in prayer, and the frantic, distressed attempts by the surrounding figures to evade the flames.
In Ukraine over the past year, waves of Russian missiles have assailed the nation’s infrastructure, leading to daily struggles for civilians and to months of frantic repairs to keep the electricity flowing.
From New York Times
Similar frantic quests to find safety played out throughout Rolling Fork, a city of 2,000 people surrounded on all sides by fields of corn, soybeans, rice and cotton.
From Washington Post
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