frantic

frantic
01. Your mother was [frantic] when you didn't come home last night.
02. The young woman was [frantically] searching her purse for her ticket as they announced that boarding for the flight had begun.
03. The young couple were looking [frantically] around the store for their three-year-old son.
04. The cat was accidentally shut up in the closet, and [frantically] started scratching at the door, and tearing at the clothes in its efforts to get out.
05. The elevator got stuck between floors, and a couple of the passengers were [frantic] to get out.
06. The dog was [frantically] pulling at its leash as the cat walked slowly by.
07. The last message received from the plane before it crashed was a [frantic] call for help from the pilot.
08. The house was full of [frantic] activity as the family got ready to go on their annual camping trip to the Rockies.
09. People were [frantically] screaming from the windows of the burning building when the firefighters arrived.
10. The young girl became [frantic] when she was separated from her friends in the huge crowd.
11. Police began a [frantic] search for a young girl who was abducted from a playground by a strange man.
12. The old woman became [frantic] when her little dog disappeared after getting off its leash.
13. Trading of shares on the stock market was frantic after the news came out that the merger had failed.
14. The parents were [frantically] trying to reach their son who was being pulled out to sea by large waves.
15. With their [frantic] schedule of work and family commitments, they found it difficult to take time off.
16. Frank A. Clark suggested that modern man is [frantically] trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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  • frantic — fran‧tic [ˈfræntɪk] adjective FINANCE if there is frantic trading on the stock market, people buy and sell a lot of currency, shares, Commodities, etc in an urgent and unorganized way: • The Bundesbank s assistance was crucial in a day of frantic …   Financial and business terms

  • Frantic — Fran tic, a. [OE. frentik, frenetik, F. frentique, L. phreneticus, from Gr. ?. See {Frenzy}, and cf. {Frenetic}, {Phrenetic}.] Mad; raving; furious; violent; wild and disorderly; distracted. [1913 Webster] Die, frantic wretch, for this accursed… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • frantic — index frenetic, hot blooded Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • frantic — mid 14c., insane, unexplained variant of M.E. frentik (see FRENETIC (Cf. frenetic)). Transferred meaning affected by wild excitement is from late 15c. Of the adv. forms, frantically (1749) is later than franticly (1540s) …   Etymology dictionary

  • Frantic —    Film policier de Roman Polanski, avec Harrison Ford, Emmanuelle Seigner, Betty Buckley, Gérard Klein.   Pays: États Unis   Date de sortie: 1987   Technique: couleurs   Durée: 1 h 59    Résumé    Un cardiologue américain venu à Paris pour un… …   Dictionnaire mondial des Films

  • frantic — adj *furious, frenzied, wild, frenetic, delirious, rabid Analogous words: crazy, crazed, mad, *insane: hysterical (see corresponding noun at MANIA): *iriational, unreasonable …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • frantic — [adj] distressed, distracted agitated, angry, at wits’ end*, berserk, beside oneself*, corybantic, crazy, delirious, deranged, distraught, excited, flipped out*, fraught, freaked out*, frenetic, frenzied, furious, hectic, hot and bothered*, hot… …   New thesaurus

  • frantic — ► ADJECTIVE 1) distraught with fear, anxiety, etc. 2) done in a hurried and chaotic way. DERIVATIVES frantically adverb franticness noun. ORIGIN Old French frenetique violently mad , from Greek phrenitis (see FRENETIC(Cf. ↑ …   English terms dictionary

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