How to Use hectic in a Sentence

hectic

adjective
  • We both had hectic days at work.
  • She maintains a hectic schedule as a journalist and mother.
  • The week leading to the BBD sales day is hectic for the team.
    Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India, 27 Sep. 2019
  • The end of the quarter tends to be a hectic time for Tesla.
    Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 12 Oct. 2018
  • The dogs, too, kept running off amid the very hectic shoot and had to be chased down.
    Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 24 Dec. 2023
  • What is the one thing that helps make this crazy, hectic lifestyle fun at the end of the day?
    Kat Bein, Billboard, 18 Nov. 2019
  • It’s been a hectic couple of weeks for the Celtics’ first-round pick.
    Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 13 July 2025
  • In a hectic life on the road, Crawford found peace astride a horse.
    New York Times, 2 Jan. 2022
  • So far, though, his new base had been just as hectic as the old one.
    ProPublica, 9 Apr. 2021
  • And in a city as hectic as Hanoi, that was certainly the case.
    Sophie Mendel, Travel + Leisure, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Before that, though, things were a bit hectic on the home front.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 13 May 2024
  • They are urged to come in the afternoons when the pace is less hectic.
    Peggy O’Hare, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Mar. 2021
  • For Kelce, a trip to Coachella would cap a hectic week.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The conclusion of the NFL draft marks an end to a hectic stretch of change throughout the league.
    Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 1 May 2020
  • To make to-dos less hectic, opt for a gadget that can get two jobs done at the same time.
    Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 22 Aug. 2023
  • So as the hectic pace of the holidays slows, take some time to plant your bulbs.
    Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 22 Dec. 2020
  • The news comes amid a hectic week for those in the lyric business -- for better or for worse.
    Tatiana Cirisano, Billboard, 19 June 2019
  • But for many surgeons, the past year-and-a-half has passed at that same hectic, rapid-fire pace.
    Kaitlin Clark, Allure, 16 Jan. 2022
  • The last three years have been hectic with supply chains and a hobby boom.
    Josh Chesler, SPIN, 8 Mar. 2023
  • And with that, a hectic week of hoops and horses commenced.
    Jeff Duncan, NOLA.com, 2 May 2018
  • Back on the East Coast, the atmosphere is much more hectic, and the band less relaxed.
    Karen Schoemer, SPIN, 1 May 2022
  • The reasons for the hectic pace set by used cars for the past three months can all be traced to the pandemic.
    Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Stop waiting for work to get less hectic or for that next big project to wrap up.
    Andrew Deutscher, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The bathroom was a center of calm in the otherwise hectic suite.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
  • With four groups of servers and passers, the drill can be a little hectic, sophomore Eve Stephens said.
    Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Dec. 2019
  • While the schedules may be hectic, getting IRL face time with fans means a lot to them.
    Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 18 May 2023
  • Bromberg and Barnes say things can get hectic on Friday and Saturday nights.
    Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2026
  • International travel can be hectic at the best of times.
    Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Investors are preparing to close out a hectic week.
    Pia Singh, CNBC, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Additionally, the high-speed starts were already looking hectic last year, with 12 boats on a busy start line.
    Andrew Rice, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026

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