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Examples of frenzy in a Sentence
Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 10 Nov. 2023
The article that set off a frenzy of speculation and anticipation was retracted by Nature on Tuesday after months of rising doubts about its claims and Dias, its lead author.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
My father, who had been a governor of Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province, was assassinated in 2011 by a religious fanatic whom clerics and broadcasters had worked into a frenzy.
—Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
Lipa then goes on to stalk her way past the mirrors before a crew of dancers appears with the flash of a strobe light, and then lifts her up in a bacchanalian frenzy; finally, as the song reaches its epic conclusion, she’s left alone in the studio catching her breath.
—Liam Hess, Vogue, 9 Nov. 2023
Rhythms built and then broke down to nothing, a pace far removed from the typical crowd-pleasing techno set, which nonetheless drew the crowd into frenzy.
—Cameron Cook, Pitchfork, 7 Nov. 2023
The final days were a frenzy, with the last scene—Rutger Hauer’s moody android death—shot against the last sunrise to dawn before Scott’s cameras would be taken from him.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
The latter — driven by an apocalyptic, millenarian creed — had embarked on a frenzy of killing, torture, grisly execution and abductions of civilians from communities of supposed apostates and enemies.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
Another hit followed; within a moment the street was the scene of a violent frenzy.
—Timothy McLaughlin, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
Wall Street Journal Five Guys frenzy There are grand openings, and then there's the launch of Five Guys in South Korea.
—Alan Murray, Fortune, 30 June 2023
Long before the globetrotting tours, the tabloid headlines, the Beatlesque frenzy that’s driving desperate parents to spend $12,000 for concert tickets, Taylor Swift got a crucial career break in a Livonia parking lot.
—Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 8 June 2023
The 10-piece band's high energy, coupled with the soulful vocals and electric performance of its frontman, known as Black Wolf, frenzied the audience, keeping them on their feet and wanting more.
—La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 1 June 2023
This has been a frenzied 72 hours for the Indianapolis Colts, a franchise that doesn’t do frenzy.
—The Indianapolis Star, 12 Jan. 2023
Allow us to breakdown why these tumblers, of all the Starbucks tumblers, seem to frenzy customers the most: First, each tumbler comes in one color but turns into another when exposed to cold liquids.
—Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 27 May 2020
Together, the percussion and brass became springboards for a buildup to frenzy.
—Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2022
Because that conflict remains unresolved in the story, Jones often declines to resolve it in movement; numbers build from tension to frenzy without the overfamiliar Broadway-style climax.
—New York Times, 15 Feb. 2022
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Word History
Noun
Middle English frenesie, franesie, frensy, fransy "insanity, delirium, fit of madness," borrowed from Anglo-French frenesie, frensye, borrowed from Medieval Latin phrenēsia, re-formation of Late Latin phrenēsis "inflammation of the brain, madness," derivative (by analogy with other Greek nouns in -ēsis with corresponding adjectives in -ētikos) of Latin phrenēticus "suffering from madness" — more at frenetic
Verb
derivative of frenzy entry 1
Noun
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Verb
1791, in the meaning defined above
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“Frenzy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/frenzy. Accessed 29 Nov. 2023.
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