How to Use febrile in a Sentence

febrile

adjective
Definition of febrilenext
  • The mid-1990s was a time of febrile change in the arts in South Korea.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 1 Dec. 2022
  • To avoid febrile seizures, the key is to give my daughter Tylenol at the earliest sign of a fever.
    — Zak Jason, Wired, 12 Feb. 2022
  • The man in the fedora was Jack Ruby, the febrile strip-club owner and cop buff.
    — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 30 July 2021
  • But in such febrile times, one rooster crowing was likely to set off all theothers in the village.
    — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
  • To Nunes, the hearings were the latest episode of Democrats’ acting out their febrile dream of forcing Trump from power.
    — David Rohde, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Trump is going to go after Mueller at some point because there is no other way for Trump’s febrile mind to make sense of the world.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 17 Mar. 2018
  • A febrile mood in the country, and the power vacuum in Downing Street, mean that all options are back on the table.
    — The Economist, 22 July 2017
  • According to the Mayo Clinic, a febrile seizure is a convulsion in a child that is caused by a fever and occurs in young, healthy kids.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 27 July 2023
  • This is surreal idiocy, even from the most febrile Trump-haters.
    — Conrad Black, National Review, 8 Apr. 2020
  • What About Febrile Seizures? Between 2% to 5% of children, usually between the ages of 6 months and 5 years, do get seizures when their fevers spike, called febrile seizures.
    — Ada Fenick, M.d., Parents, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Certain factors can increase your risk of having more than one febrile seizure.
    — Mark Gurarie, Health, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Arsenal's 2-0 win in a febrile atmosphere inside St. James' Park left City with a one-point lead with three weeks left in the season.
    — Steve Douglas, ajc, 7 May 2023
  • In the present febrile political climate the tagline of The Report could be read as a clarion call to politicians on both sides of the pond: Truth Matters.
    — Catherine Edwards, Quartzy, 27 Nov. 2019
  • The febrile politics of Brexit have raised the prospect — albeit, still remote — of the latter two also breaking away.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Kenneth Whyte brings to life these pioneering days of febrile dramas, dirty tricks, wild stunts and pure genius.
    — Les Hinton, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2018
  • Trump cannot help himself, tweeting insults at the screen with a febrile desperation.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2020
  • There are two epidemics raging across the U.S. today: the coronavirus and a febrile sense of national failure.
    — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Cox's murder at the hands of a right-wing extremist came in the days leading up to the 2016 Brexit vote, an issue that has helped stoke divisions and a sometimes febrile mood.
    — NBC News, 16 Oct. 2021
  • Each of those diseases can be transmitted from cats to humans through scratches; each can cause a febrile illness and enlarged lymph nodes.
    — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 29 Dec. 2022
  • That was the febrile atmosphere on July 4th, when British marines abseiled onto the deck of the Grace 1 in Gibraltarian waters.
    — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
  • This place exists in autonomy, in relief, a dry, febrile land of cuboid houses and scrawled horizons.
    — Maya Boyd, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The febrile creativity of a crowd united in anger helps imbue objects and images with meaning.
    — The Economist, 17 June 2020
  • Mr. Burton’s febrile intensity gives that film a suggestion of madness, along with sweat and rays of heat, lacking in the remake.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 8 June 2017
  • Three prime ministers have governed the Southeast Asian country since a febrile election with a record turnout was fought four years ago on the key issue of corruption.
    — Heather Chen, CNN, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The art of guidance is always a delicate dance between realism and optimism, but a misstep in these febrile times can lead to a fall.
    — John D. Stoll, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2019
  • For Pan, the greater concern is the impact of increasingly febrile and threatening protests aimed at public servants.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2021
  • As Ossoff has moved from underdog to slight favorite, the attacks on him have grown increasingly febrile.
    — Michelle Goldberg, Slate Magazine, 19 June 2017
  • Both are compendiums of artful dodging and febrile rhetoric, which is what corporate lawyers produce for a living.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
  • Last March, the Swansons had to come up with $8,000 to cover their share of hospital bills after their baby daughter was hospitalized with a febrile seizure.
    — Reed Abelson, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
  • In this febrile moment in our politics, some on the left are rationalizing a military coup in the name of saving the republic.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'febrile.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: