frantic

Example Sentences

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So in the frantic hours before officers took her parents away to immigration detention, her mom turned to their pastor and his wife.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

Twice in the last 50 years, crises in the Mideast, one of them centered in Iran, have turned Americans into frantic hunter-gatherers for another necessity: fuel for their gas tanks.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

Broken computer monitors in bombed-out offices, scattered fake police uniforms and phoney hundred-dollar bills: these were the vestiges of a frantic escape of suspected cyberscammers fleeing a resort on the Cambodia-Thailand border.

From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026

Much of “Inside Out 2” was made in a frantic all-hands crunch because the filmmakers didn’t finalize their story until the fall before its June 2024 release.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026

We have trouble walking to our lockers because of the frantic mob slapping up campaign posters on any empty piece of wall they can find.

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein