How to Use frantic in a Sentence

frantic

adjective

• The girl was frantic with fear.
• They made a frantic search for the missing child.
• They were making frantic preparations for the party.
• No frantic running to the fridge or pantry mid-process.
  — Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 16 Oct. 2023
• Their speedy jumps looked to the naked eye like frantic fleeing.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2022
• After a frantic search on the 2024 Golden Globes red carpet, the E!
  — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 8 Jan. 2024
• The Pirates had a brief first-half lead, then their frantic finish.
  — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 16 Feb. 2023
• And her husband, Frédéric Thiébaud, was frantic with stress.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 30 Jan. 2023
• Faces stared back at him: this strange, frantic young man, shouting at them.
  — Rozina Ali, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• Suddenly there was a frantic demand to get up and run for the center door.
  — Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• The armpit event fires the starting gun of a long, frantic, sometimes tragicomic race.
  — Joan Frank, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2023
• Matt's children look on from the back seat of their car, alarmed at the frantic call their father is receiving.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2023
• In a frantic search to save her, Cindy found Rowdy Girl Sanctuary, about a 150-mile drive away.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 12 Oct. 2023
• As the fire burned on the town’s edge, a frantic evacuation of the entire town was underway.
  — Eric Zerkel, CNN, 16 Aug. 2023
• The young women recounted the gunshots and frantic rush to the hospital.
  — Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
• There’s depression that can look more frantic, kind of like a chicken with its head cut off.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2023
• The production is lush and full, a wall of sound built from colossal snare drums and frantic strings, waves of horns and textured piano.
  — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• According to The Associated Press, the frantic mother yelled at her boyfriend to get the child and get away as the car caught fire.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 22 Jan. 2024
• The frantic, three-day search came to an end in Detroit, nearly 100 miles from Wynter’s Lansing home.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 6 July 2023
• The frantic summer season was around the corner and the first guests at the new villa at Canaves Epitome were set to arrive in June.
  — Jackie Cooperman, Robb Report, 15 Aug. 2023
• The first, on Dec. 28 in Pittsburgh, featured a frantic comeback in the second and third periods after the Wings fell behind 4-0 in the first.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 8 Apr. 2023
• Thus began a frantic search in Germany for usable Nazi footage.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Feb. 2023
• Stagehands are set in frantic motion when a different corridor of the White House is required or the scene shifts to the ladies’ room.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2024
• After nine frantic days of searching for the missing father, a kayaker found his body in Beaver Lake, about 25 miles south of Cassville.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 7 June 2023
• If that's the case, the award should go to Everything Everywhere All at Once, which had quite a lot of frantic editing throughout.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 11 Mar. 2023
• Meanwhile, my parents, who were frantic, had reached out to an attorney and were working to get me out.
  — Mackenzie Schmidt, Peoplemag, 4 Feb. 2024
• The dog was barking in the frigid water, and the pup’s frantic owner and her three children were calling to him, encouraging him to hang on.
  — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2024
• The next few seconds of the video show a frantic movement of the camera from underwater as Breen struggles to resurface.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2023
• Lures with frantic actions send out lots of vibrations through the water, but the needlefish does the opposite.
  — Jimmy Fee, Field & Stream, 13 Sep. 2023
• Hassan will act normal for a while and then become frantic and manic.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 18 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024