plural frenzies
1
a
: a temporary madness
in a rage amounting to a frenzy
b
: a violent mental or emotional agitation
… almost weeping in a frenzy of anxiety …—
Colleen McCullough
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: intense usually wild and often disorderly compulsive or agitated activity
a shopping frenzy
… the mob chanted itself into a frenzy …—C. Carr
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Examples of frenzy in a Sentence
Noun
the buying frenzy just before Christmas
in its frenzy to flee the danger, the crowd became uncontrollable, and a number of people were trampled to death
Verb
local football fans who were frenzied by the fact that their team was going to the Super Bowl
Recent Examples on the WebEric Lach, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2024
Biotech companies added to the leasing and buying frenzy.
—George Avalos, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2024
Here's everything to know, including time, path, safety Google solar eclipse animation
On Friday, Google joined in on the eclipse frenzy by adding a cool animation that gives its users an interactive feel at their own leisure.
—USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2024
Aoki Lee Simmons, model, Harvard graduate and daughter of Kimora Lee Simmons and Russell Simmons, had the internet in a frenzy recently when news broke that the 21-year-old is dating restaurateur Vittorio Assaf, 65, after they were spotted kissing on the beach in St. Barts.
—Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 8 Apr. 2024
The tours will run daily from July 4 to August 11 but a booking frenzy saw all the tickets - priced at £100 ($126) - snapped up by royal fans within 24 hours.
—Billy Stockwell, CNN, 5 Apr. 2024
There will be a food frenzy in Elk Grove this Wednesday when the city hosts its monthly Food Truck Mania, in partnership with Sacramento Mobile Foods, or SactoMoFo.
—Marcus D. Smith, Sacramento Bee, 2 Apr. 2024
And the British royal family, a deeply conservative and closed institution that has long struggled to maintain a balance between accessibility and privacy, may be especially vulnerable to becoming a target of such online frenzies — and especially limited in its ability to defend against them.
—Amanda Taub, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024
Every month or so, a new consumption frenzy seems to flood our newsfeeds.
—Dr. Marcus Collins, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
Raja Khalidi, Foreign Affairs, 19 Mar. 2024
As the crowd was clearing out afterward, the jubilation quickly turned to frenzy.
—Glenn E. Rice, Kansas City Star, 15 Feb. 2024
Advertisement The outcry over the Angels’ waiver frenzy last week was ridiculous.
—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
Noun
In the midst of this frenzy, the National Enquirer’s editor got in touch with Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen, who negotiated a hundred-and-thirty-thousand-dollar fee to buy Daniels’s silence, avoiding further scandal.
—Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2024
Biotech companies added to the leasing and buying frenzy.
—George Avalos, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2024
Here's everything to know, including time, path, safety Google solar eclipse animation
On Friday, Google joined in on the eclipse frenzy by adding a cool animation that gives its users an interactive feel at their own leisure.
—USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2024
Aoki Lee Simmons, model, Harvard graduate and daughter of Kimora Lee Simmons and Russell Simmons, had the internet in a frenzy recently when news broke that the 21-year-old is dating restaurateur Vittorio Assaf, 65, after they were spotted kissing on the beach in St. Barts.
—Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 8 Apr. 2024
The tours will run daily from July 4 to August 11 but a booking frenzy saw all the tickets - priced at £100 ($126) - snapped up by royal fans within 24 hours.
—Billy Stockwell, CNN, 5 Apr. 2024
There will be a food frenzy in Elk Grove this Wednesday when the city hosts its monthly Food Truck Mania, in partnership with Sacramento Mobile Foods, or SactoMoFo.
—Marcus D. Smith, Sacramento Bee, 2 Apr. 2024
And the British royal family, a deeply conservative and closed institution that has long struggled to maintain a balance between accessibility and privacy, may be especially vulnerable to becoming a target of such online frenzies — and especially limited in its ability to defend against them.
—Amanda Taub, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024
Every month or so, a new consumption frenzy seems to flood our newsfeeds.
—Dr. Marcus Collins, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
Verb
Today, the media frenzy about who can be the next president or minister misses the point.
—Raja Khalidi, Foreign Affairs, 19 Mar. 2024
As the crowd was clearing out afterward, the jubilation quickly turned to frenzy.
—Glenn E. Rice, Kansas City Star, 15 Feb. 2024
Advertisement The outcry over the Angels’ waiver frenzy last week was ridiculous.
—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
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