How To Use Frantic In A Sentence

But after three years of frantic knitting, they decided to end the challenge, despite reaching halfway.
He made frantic dash for the departing train.
In the final match, Lara scored yet another hundred but this was so frantic and frenzied that it could not stop the Australians from winning the match and squaring the series.
All I could do was frantically reach for my safety whistle and blow like crazy to alert the raft crew.
On return home, was remembering my brother's good suggestion that changing mouse mat might be the answer to the frantic behaviour of the cursor on my desktop machine; since I bought the desktop an emac, with optical mouse it has skipped around erratically at seemingly-random times. Wriggly thing in hair

Drummer Ste Barrow is frantically searching for a replacement having just split the skin on his bass drum.
The voice acting is deliberately hammy, the sound effects are loud and intrusive and the gameplay is frantic.
Instead, all the clifty defiles of the ranges were filled with the roar of flames and the crackling of burning timbers as town after town was given to the firebrand, and the homeless, helpless Cherokees frantically fleeing to the densest coverts of the wilderness, -- that powerful truculent tribe! The Frontiersmen
I woke up to hear my parents gently bickering with one another, and my mother's frantic hoovering.
In our frantic effort to preserve the last vestiges of slavery and mediaevalism we not only set our faces against such improvements, but we seek to use education and the power of the state to train the servants who do not naturally appear. DARKWATER
After a breakfast of pasta and 3 cups of tea, I went to the garage to fetch my bike only to find my Dad, who looked more nervous than me, frantically pumping up my tyres.
Sevan, who was in Kabul when Najibullah bolted, spent the week frantically trying to coax the new leaders to stick with the peace plan. The End Of A Superpower Proxy War
We frantically wipe at them with wet towels. Times, Sunday Times
He is the lovable old duffer with the frantic, ants-in-the-pants commentating style.
Bursting with frantic energy, wry humour and a multitude of voices, it might be best described as a romantic comedy-thriller, but even this fails to capture its sparkling originality.
The lightness of the first film had hardened into a frantic, unpleasant quality - it's easily the worst of the series.
The children have been driving me frantic all day!
Sew dem he lays onna his sidez an frantickly swipes him legs unner der trin ta getz dem bak out. Boss cat is giving you - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Lengthy planning and re-planning typically resulted in a shortened development phase, which in turn resulted in the development phase being consistently frantic and reliably late.
Looking around frantically as the tub nearly filled to capacity, I grabbed a bar of Ivory soap.
She turned to Ian enquiringly, as the boy scrabbled frantically on the floor looking for coins.
It was difficult to keep up with the frantic activity. Times, Sunday Times
All over the country, harassed parents are frantically trying to decide how to entertain their offspring, rather than pleasing themselves.
Frantic efforts were made to extract her, but after 40 minutes all movements ceased.
‘Ah - Miss Corel,’ he greeted her charmingly, ignoring the clangor of alarms and frantic shouts from outside.
Halfway there he got into difficulties and left me with two floundering swimmers to occupy my frantic mind.
A Phil Neville zinger takes a wicked deflection and Hildebrand scurries frantically across his goal-line to keep the ball out.
At the airport G, who is basically ten times more masculine than me, was almost frantic with nerves.
Detroit Aircraft's frantic efforts to regain stability were unavailing and, in October, the corporation floundered into receivership.
Patrick suddenly found himself standing in the hallway, his heart tripping frantically, his breathing too fast to be comfortable.
Meanwhile Blackburn, frantically seeking to empty the boat after a wave had swamped it, accidentally bailed his own mittens over the side.
She nods frantically, distractedly, ponytail slicing a semi-circle through the air as she about-faces for a new strip of floor to stomp across.
No harvest can be enlarged by frantic hurrying about. Christianity Today
It was carved by my great-grandfather and came to me unrequested, a bargained token in the frantic last minute horse-trading as my parents' divorce was settled.
the building...frantically baroque
I nodded my head frantically, pretty sure drool was dribbling down the side of my mouth.
Over and over the frantic pilots radioed, asking for just one light so they could see to land.
His facial features can shift in a twitch from the innocent blankness of a choirboy during the sermon to the frantic grimaces of an axe-wielding berserker.
Cantus swung frantically, attempting to deflect his opponent's blows, one of his swipes finally scoring underneath Soren's defenses.
His body was erroneously producing a flood of white blood cells in a frantic search for a disease that did not exist.
Finally came the time of machines, and rhythms of life became increasingly feverish and frantic.
For all the score's mad energy, the dramatic shapes are never in doubt, the climaxes are effective and the syllabic patter even starts to sound like real conversation, comic yet frantic.
The Oxford English Dictionary, the Pedant's Bible, gives" franticness "as" The state or condition of being frantic ", so we don't have to see 'frenzy' as the noun and 'frantic' as the adjective, despite their common etymology, especially because we also have 'frenzical'. Bolton Wanderers v Manchester United - as it happened
Here is a a more leisured pace of life and courteousness that are only a memory in the frantic bustle of Kuala Lumpur.
Looking at them, you really do think of twirling lariats, and here the vaguely bordello colors, along with a kind of supercharged motion, suggest a semi-frantic, but also humorous, licentiousness.
Vix hit the retros, frantically pulled up so that the Eternal's nose was almost hitting the ceiling, and activated the belly thrusters at full power just before they hit the wall.
The frantic and furious beating took on the dimension and character of a collective crew of railroaders pounding spikes in unison on a stretch of track.
All I could do was frantically reach for my safety whistle and blow like crazy to alert the raft crew.
It was then a frantic race to the finish as the excited onlookers cheered the teams over the line.
He caught hold of her frantically fluttering hands and forced her to stay still and look at him.
Goal raids were frantic and the keepers were kept busy as the balls shot into the box and past the bars regularly.
As the helicopter flew overhead, they waved frantically, trying to attract its attention.
I'm sure many of my colleagues are frantically scribbling away on their bestsellers in their spare time.
So here we are, in the middle of a solemn, yet frantic, chat-fest of the sort that bowls along after the sudden passage of sad events.
There are also stories of cats running around frantically before hurricanes or tornados. Times, Sunday Times
This was unforgivable form - but I was hot, sweating, badly sunburnt, my feet were freezing, wet and blistered, I was frantic with thirst, hungry and utterly dispirited.
To queue is glorious," reads a new catchphrase festooned across Beijing as part of the government's frantic push to improve social etiquette for the Olympics. Archive 2008-08-10
Now your frantic work week is coming to an end, it would be wise to slow down and take a rest. The Sun
From the metallic zizz of the starter motor and the first flurry of revs to the final frantic thrashings of the crankshaft, this is swansong motoring.
Things are frantic in the office right now.
My dippy mother is going around frantically getting all the things from inside the living room that are worth any money, which I can tell you it ‘aint a lot!
If we give up our vague, devastating quest, I suspect the Iraqis will have a lot of suddenly frantic help from the chaos-sponsors and bystanders in their neighborhood, the countries which have been so deeply delighted at the ongoing spectacle of America's ignorant blunder, at the unhoped-for crippling of America, at the astonishing waste of American lives and resources. Frank Dwyer: Better Numbers
The government had been making increasingly frantic efforts to stop military leaders talking to journalists. Times, Sunday Times
That night the family frantically phoned friends and visited her haunts. The Sun
I screamed and tried to fight, crying in frustration while doctors frantically fussed around me, shouting noises that echoed through my head.
A financial panic ensued, as frantic as the earlier boom.
Old Cermit went frantic, set off a distress signal that brought a resurrection team from the Edge, and they brought her back. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
Cats afflicted with hyperesthesia and intense skin allergies may exhibit symptoms elicited by even the softest touch, including strange skin ripples or seizurelike episodes of frantic racing, panic, or biting at the air. The Last Chance Dog
Noise can hammer away at your nerves until you become quite frantic. Survive the Nine to Five - a woman's guide to working well
Once the sack whirled about his head, twice, and then it arcked toward the galley, dropping to its deck unnoticed by men frantically cutting away the flaming sail. Conan The Unconquered
Grab the nearest towel (a washcloth will substitute in a pinch) and frantically rub the shampoo up off the floor.
I want to feel crazy and frantic and desperate and feel like you're the only thing that can satisfy me.
We live in a society of frantic activity. Christianity Today
Left to herself, Saxon worked with frantic haste, assuming the calm she did not possess, but which she must impart to the screaming bedlamite upon the floor. CHAPTER XIX
He opened the door to his room again, now in a frantic search for anything he may need.
I caused bottlenecks in front of crowded Métro barriers, frantically scrabbling through my satchel for that sad little bag containing my carnet of tickets.
Organized but unforgiving slabs of frantic bass and speedfreak drums are topped with distorted vocals, occasionally giving way for handclaps, vocoder voices and electro intros.
Kahlil had crimsoned and was gesturing frantically with his hands. September 17 , 2004
Inside all of us there appears to be a little chap with a spray can frantically signalling to be let out. Times, Sunday Times
Inside all of us there appears to be a little chap with a spray can frantically signalling to be let out. Times, Sunday Times
The frantic denouncer of simony had himself become a simonist; the indignant opponent of Antoninus had become his secret accomplice; the accuser of misprision had accepted an enormous bribe as the guerdon of misprision. Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
By half way, he was gaining on his rival, with the crowd waving their banners frantically. Times, Sunday Times
I see the savage dragged from the slave ship, frantic, eyes wild, searching for escape.
Then suddenly there was a downfall of rain and they raced back only to be scolded by a frantic Sir Thomas.
The character is meant to be an entertainingly frantic jokester, but most of the time the guy is just annoying.
Helicopters frantically shuttled crews out in near snow-blind conditions to stake suspected diamond pipes before their rivals.
I was pointing frantically towards the meadow and trying to catch my partner's attention by squawking in a hushed tone, so as not to disturb this first major article of wildlife I'd spotted so far on our trip.
Ignoring her frantic efforts to break free, he'd tossed his charge card down on to the counter.
She flung herself into her room and began to pack frantically, wanting to cry with rage and shame.
M'lver was most frantic about the business, and I think I was cool, for I was never a person that cared a bodle about my history bye the second generation. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
The men were frantically waving their arms around to indicate they were in distress.
I reached frantically for the light, wishing instead for a sawed-off shotgun.
But as the broadwing pumped frantically to evade her, she shot past him completely, ignoring him! The Black Gryphon
In 1770 the ship grounded on the Great Barrier Reef, and after frantic efforts to save the ship, it was beached and repaired over the course of several weeks before resuming her voyage.
There was a frantic rush to get everything ready for the unexpected inspection from the superiors.
Next morning, Mildred was jolted awake by the bell ringing in a much more frantic way than usual.
These days, as we run around frantically copulating and overreporting, we tend to forget that. Sex surveys, honor, and Brandon Davies's girlfriend
So long as there was a wall round the cliff's edge they could fling themselves into every frantic game and make the place the noisiest of nurseries.
But one particular species had the expert twitcher frantically flicking through the ornithology books when it was delivered to his doorstep this week.
Around ten minutes into the second half, a testing series of corners was swung in underneath the cross bar requiring four goal line clearances in a frantic few minutes.
Understandably, being identical is vital to the show's scenario, but subtle differences, perhaps in the vests or cummerbunds, would help make a show of such frantic pace less confusing.
As soon as the meeting was over, they contacted reporters with near-verbatim accounts of the participants' behavior in a frantic series of accusations and denials, spiced with dollops of invective.
As they watched rescuers work frantically, another quake made the trees on the bank sway.
She cast about frantically for an excuse.
He would get so frantic in matches that his eyes would glaze over. Times, Sunday Times
The animal threw up its forelegs and plunged ahead in a frantic lopsided gallop, kicking like a donkey, dragging the carriage from one side of the highway to the other.
She could feel a stinging liquid dribbling down her shoulder and soaking her shirt; her wound had reopened in her frantic flight.
A bird had been locked in and was by now quite frantic.
There is some basis for the rumour in her defiance of imperial protocol by riding cross-saddle, and a hint of overstimulation in her breathless reports of frantic gallops, but Catherine's nymphomania is a schoolboy legend.
As the helicopter flew overhead, they waved frantically, trying to attract its attention.
As soon as the doors opened, I saw a balding man in a sweatsuit waving the sports section of a newspaper around and shouting frantically into his cell phone.
The frantic guitar strum, filtered through a wah-wah pedal, is irresistible and carries this song with speed and finesse.
Amazingly, he managed to kick it in the eye - then scrambled on to a rock so frantically he ripped out finger and toenails. The Sun
Knowing that Olivia would be frantic with worry, Beth decided that now was such a time.
A stupendous cinema epic, reduced to a sort of frantic scurrying in a goldfish bowl, might merely seem ridiculous.
Cue frantic suggestions of random food groups that might just go together, then scavenging in empty cupboards like rabid dogs on heat. Times, Sunday Times
Even when she reached her home again, and Mrs. Byrne followed her in, afraid of leaving the frightened woman alone lest she should "blab" the whole secret to the first person she met, -- even then Mrs. Cregan could not speak until she had gathered up the broken dishes and propped the broken chair against the wall, as frantically as if she were trying to conceal the evidence of a crime. McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908
He reminded his frantically puffing audience that smoking was a well-known antidote to the predations of the great horse fly, or cleg.
I quickly skimmed through the heads of the files, frantically searching for Enrico.
When Jack and I decided to escape the frantic pace of Philadelphia, we spent many weekends driving in the country, hoping to find a little fixer-upper.
George lunged for the cruet set; Melanie for the butter dish; Nat was frantically hoarding toothpicks.
Then disaster struck (and I'm not sure what exactly happened), as I woke up to find the engines at full power reversing away from shore with Nicholas waving frantically.
By half way, he was gaining on his rival, with the crowd waving their banners frantically. Times, Sunday Times
‘I'm broadcasting in five minutes,’ an increasingly frantic Carson told the bullet-headed man in security.
The result was funny, frantic and at times touching. Times, Sunday Times
However, my frantic eye-fluttering demonstrations merely provoked inquiries after my contact lenses rather than the swoons of desire I had anticipated.
The sun sets earlier in London than it did in Liverpool, an unexpected treat and one that helps becalm the city at its most frantic and frenetic period. Archive 2006-11-01
For instance, my high-school self — skinny, scabby, giggly, gabby, frantic to be noticed, tormented enough to be a tormentor, relentlessly pushing his cartoons and posters and noisy jokes and pseudo-sophisticated poems upon the helpless-high school — strikes me now as considerably obnoxious, though I owe him a lot: without his frantic ambition and insecurity I would not now be sitting on (as my present home was named by others) Haven Hill. John updike | march 18, 1932 – january 27, 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
So that's where I am, that's why this blog has become decidedly unspiritual after a few months of frantic spiritual searching.
The film is frantic and jumps from one idea to another without rhyme or reason. The Sun
Chops responds, without pausing in his frantic pulling on the starter cord.
A family who launched a frantic search to find their missing dog were reunited with the pooch after discovering he had been locked in their own car boot for four days.
They were receiving frantic calls regarding accounts and computers crashing all weekend long, and they had no idea why.
Stephanie is part of a team of publicists, producers, coaches and managers who look after Tabby's frantic schedule, choreograph his songs and generally keep him on the path to fame.
Hannah was a little less apt to become frantic in busy places, such as shopping malls and grocery stores.
The MP in question now feels he has bitten off rather more than he can swallow, let alone chew, and is now back-pedalling frantically.
declared Matsa frantically as he hit what would have been the enter key on a non elven computer, but in the unlearned language Matsa wasn't sure of it.
Modern life whizzes by at a frantic pace and we mere mortals find ourselves in a constant whirl trying to find ways of catching up.
Rina's voice rose to a frantic warbling, her face turning red as well.
The unspeakableness of this drives the AP frantic with alliteration. No bias here, no sirree!
His throat and lungs filled with the pungent stifling smoke of powder, his nostrils with earth and dust, he frantically wheezed and sneezed, leaping about, falling drunkenly, leaping into the air again, staggering on his hind-legs, dabbing with his forepaws at his nose head-downward between his forelegs, and even rubbing his nose into the ground. CHAPTER XIX
He knelt down to begin frantically scooping them back into the box as she slid the apartment key into her pocket, undid the deadbolt and stepped out into the hall.
Then, finally, and against the frantic negative pantomime of his manager, a scherzo, played so lacily that it swept the house in lightest laughter. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It
David was jangling his change so frantically you had to strain to hear what anyone was saying.
It has emerged that frantic efforts were made to save him at the scene and later, in the ambulance and medical tent.
The frantic wife of a doctor who has been missing for four days told how she kissed him goodbye before he left for work and disappeared.
I missed a frantic clutch at the newel-post, flung up my arm in time to save my face, and, most fortunately, whirled half about, and, still falling, impacted with my shoulder muscle-pad on Captain West's door. CHAPTER XXX
The visitors started at a searing pace, putting Everton's back line under frantic pressure.
This time, however, he failed to return and his mother is frantic with worry about his safety.
They may root frantically under the couch cushions or behind the drapes for a hidden camera.
Most games are frantic, intense and have you pumped full of adrenalin.
Beesley explains that the frantic mining had huge impacts on rivers and valley bottoms.
His frantic attempts to finesse the withdrawal failed, and have been shown up as cynical attempts to gain political advantage for himself when he should have been trying to help the country instead.
Frantic efforts by the rump Soviet state to reform its armed forces and rebuild its shattered economy resulted in a remarkable revival in the later part of 1942.
Telescoping the text frantically, he omits most of the low-life scenes, which show how sexual licence slides into moral anarchy.
She nods frantically, distractedly, ponytail slicing a semi-circle through the air as she about-faces for a new strip of floor to stomp across.
But his frantic search only pulls himself further into the murky French underworld. The Sun
His voice was thick, unsteady, as he struggled against the frantic gasps for air that came with bitter, cried tears.
His reputation has always been that of an obsessive, picking at detail in a way which could drive others frantic.
Since disaster struck the students have been making frantic phone calls only to be greeted by dead silence.
Where on earth have you been? We've been frantic with worry.
In order to place the third and fourth aedicule gables as well as the central shell (concha), stone carvers Sinan Ilhan and Eva Leplat worked at a frantic pace to complete the corresponding Corinthian capitals. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Anastylosis Projects Report 3
Frantically pointing at the TV screen, which displayed a route map, the terrified teen noted we were over France and told the air hostess she needed to inform the captain that we could safely divert and make an emergency landing in some area of the French countryside that he seemed to know very well as he'd holidayed there the previous summer with some Etonian chums. Kim Carillo: The Day Prince William's Pal Held My Husband's Hand and Other In-Flight Shockers
She was not frantic; but had such a pretty deliration, that in her ravings there was oftentimes more attractiveness than in many sane persons' conversation.
Evgeni Malkin deflected Sidney Crosby's one-timer from the right point on a Pittsburgh power play with 1: 41 remaining to finish a frantic comeback, and the Penguins rallied from a three-goal deficit against the Rangers for a 5-4 victory in their second-round playoff series opener Friday night. USATODAY.com
Some of these contradictions could be explained by his frantic search for political support. The Times Literary Supplement
To the innocent, who had never seen it before, it seemed discorded and inconsequent, bizarre and paradoxical like the frantic darting of the weightless bugs which run on the surface of stagnant pools. Caps gameday special: Best hockey stories ever
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something frantic in their gaiety
On a less frantic note, while we go to a rooftop in Rome, dozens of doves, pigeons, were released carrying messages of hope and peace.
Searching, Alex frantically clawed at the strong arm that possessed her, looking for an escape amidst chaos.
There was a frantic rush to get everything ready for the unexpected inspection from the superiors.
It has to swing and look effortless but is often wild and frantic with loads of kicks, jumps, lifts, hops and spins.
Things are frantic in the office right now.
Better yet, a trawl through catalogues specialising in vintage SF yields plenty of examples of his work from the 1940s and 50s, the last, frantic, days of the true pulps, when stories had to jostle for the reader's attention, and the printed word competed with TV and the movies. Writers on Writing: Credentials
I scrabble frantically for concealer and eyeliner, lip gloss and eyeshadow.
A pretty red-haired girl waved frantically to catch Allyson's attention from the school's parking lot.
Chops responds, without pausing in his frantic pulling on the starter cord.
There was a frantic rush to escape from the building.
The blond and the jock were still finishing up their witty repartee while frantic techno music rattled on in the background.
As the runners were descending from England's highest mountain, they heard a scream and frantic blasts on an emergency whistle.
Fierce competition often provokes a rush to judgement, a sense of perpetual crisis and a frantic chase for stories, sacrificing the process of reflective maturation.
Doubtless a rich merchant escaping with as much treasure as he could lay frantic hands on.
Anything topical is now a week old, and I'm out of the loop ... or on the outskirts waving frantically. Archive 2009-03-01
After 18 months of sparring between the Tories and BBC executives over the level of the licence fee, the future funding of the corporation has been hammered out in frantic negotiations in little over three days, with the broadcaster coming off decidedly second best. BBC licence fee frozen at £145.50 for six years
For those of us with frantic, busy lives there's something romantic and relaxing about the thought of running a launderette. The Sun
I looked around and saw Cliff waving his arms frantically, because he was being swarmed by some local bees.
Sensible it was impossible ever to remove the fatal truth, or the impression to her father of her lost virtue, she formed the frantic resolution of setting off for the wild solitudes of Cumberland, and there immure herself alive for the remainder of her existence. The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale
The Essenes were not only greatly inclined to apocalyptic views and legalism, but they were frantically anti-Hellenistic.
Despite our frantic efforts, we were unable to save the boy's life.
I saw the terror-struck faces, and the frantic waving of their arms!
Dammit, gonna need a volunteer drag queen ... yes, my brain is frantically scrabbling around trying to find things that might be more itneresting than the ending of All the Windwracked Stars.) (Which is what I need to go work on right now, alackaday.) Link salad, big essplosions edition
The students are hustling and bustling about, Ms. Hunter frantically handing back the test papers.
People crowded round the bar frantically shouting their orders over the noise of the band.
Football also makes people cross enough to become frantically upset about Neil Lennon, a man who, in normal life, might be the kind of slightly testy neighbour who occasionally leaves a note on your windscreen about wheelie bin maintenance, but who, in football, is deemed a bristly ginger hard-nut super villain. It's time to admit football is pure evil | Barney Ronay
Michael quickly fell asleep in his bed, his hand grasping mine which was clutching back frantically.
A mob is like a mass of bullocks driven to frenzy by some bott fly, and charging frantically against the tents of some herdsman, imagining that all the evil comes out of these tents. Kangaroo
City's Eyal Berkovic was sent-off and Shaun Goater booked in the mass protests that followed, and more were lucky they did not see a card as the Wirral-based referee frantically waved away spot kick appeals.
A black and white spaniel frolicked in front of them, then began digging at the bank in frantic haste. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
He lambastes overanxious pop rappers, racial tension, and society's preconceptions in a nasal hopscotch speed rap over frantic instrumentals.

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