: feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance
frenzied dancing
frenziedly
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Examples of frenzied in a Sentence
The screams of the fans grew more frenzied as the concert progressed.
the frenzied scene at the mall in the final week before Christmas
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In the frenzied world of college applications, students are best served by making many flexible plans and backup plans.
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Kristen Moon, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
Amid its frenzied storytelling, the film offers a cogent theory of modern masculinity: Men suck at communicating.
—Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2024
Emilie embarks on a frenzied quest in the multiverse in an attempt to find her father and also to avert an environmental disaster.
—Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2024
That leaves this frenzied backstage glimpse not nearly as absorbing, as if everyone were a hypertext link to their future Wiki page instead of talented people in a tense moment, ready to gamble on something new.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2024
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Kristen Moon, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
Amid its frenzied storytelling, the film offers a cogent theory of modern masculinity: Men suck at communicating.
—Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2024
Emilie embarks on a frenzied quest in the multiverse in an attempt to find her father and also to avert an environmental disaster.
—Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2024
That leaves this frenzied backstage glimpse not nearly as absorbing, as if everyone were a hypertext link to their future Wiki page instead of talented people in a tense moment, ready to gamble on something new.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2024
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“Frenzied.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/frenzied. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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