How to Use frantically in a Sentence

frantically

adverb
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  • Rogers called the police and frantically searched for the child.
    — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Once upon a time, Hank Prior frantically chopped at the ice to save the life of his drowning son.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The whole time the drag buzzed as Pendergraft frantically turned the handle.
    — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 10 June 2023
  • Wolves coaches frantically tried to set the defense in case of a second miss.
    — Michael Rand, Star Tribune, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Residents searched frantically for places to buy food and bread, but most stores were closed.
    — Nimet Kirac, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The servers are frantically rushing bottles of wine and empanadas to the tables of people chatting at the top of their lungs.
    — Matthew Dursum, SPIN, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Peyton has a flight to catch in a few hours, and her line companion is frantically phoning a friend to come stand in for her.
    — Jenna Kunze, ELLE, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The teen is seen frantically pulling a gun from his hoodie pocket and opening fire.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
  • Mark Slaugh spent most of that night frantically calling and texting to make sure his siblings were still alive.
    — Christina Maxouris, CNN, 11 Dec. 2022
  • No more searching frantically for the missing tees, balls, or golf balls.
    — Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 7 Dec. 2023
  • If the sketch came true, the Volvo, Mercedes, Ford, and Audi stylists would soon be frantically whittling away on some fresh five-doors.
    — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 15 June 2023
  • Stuart would spend that night and the next four nights in Traci and her husband’s cramped RV, frantically searching Craigslist for a free or cheap trailer.
    — Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The guy who is just across the room, frantically deleting computer files.
    — Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 23 June 2023
  • Fans frantically reached for their pockets to grab their phones and snap pictures of Ortiz, attired in black from head to toe.
    — John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2023
  • To make up for the absence of incident, the narrative jumps around frantically in time.
    — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Viewers are frantically trying to figure out the host of the BET Awards, but the network has not yet announced who will be hosting.
    — oregonlive, 25 June 2023
  • Jacob, alone in the aircraft, appeared to look around frantically before bailing out of the plane.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Miller got out of the car and allegedly frantically confronted the bystander and begged them not to call 911, the affidavit states.
    — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 22 Dec. 2023
  • And then Craig ran outside, frantically explaining that his wife had been drunk, taking drugs and jumped out of the window.
    — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 1 Mar. 2023
  • There's also a time-saving key leash that makes finding my keys a breeze — no need to frantically rummage through my bag.
    — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 12 May 2023
  • In one video, people could be seen frantically going through the rubble to dig out the seeming lifeless body of one young victim.
    — Kareem Khadder, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Aneel, one of many frantically trying to find a way out, was stranded in Tal al-Hawa, a neighborhood in southern Gaza City.
    — Hind Khoudary, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2023
  • San Francisco had the air this week of teenagers frantically cleaning up after a house party with their parents on the way home.
    — Heather Knight, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023
  • In one image from the scene at the hospital, medics frantically treated a bloodied young boy on a stretcher.
    — Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2023
  • And shoppers are frantically searching for that last minute present.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The woman can be heard crying for help as others frantically try to assist.
    — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 21 Mar. 2024
  • His aides, learning that the race in Florida was, in fact, too close to call, tried frantically to contact the Vice-President in his limousine.
    — Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2020
  • After a while the monkey started to jump a little less frantically.
    — Michael W. Clune, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Apr. 2023
  • Gone are the days of frantically searching for my moisturizer in a post-wash frenzy!
    — Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Friends and relatives frantically called and texted each other to check on their safety.
    — CBS News, 8 Sep. 2022

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