How to Use frenzy in a Sentence

frenzy

1 of 2 noun
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  • That’s why the frenzy of Black Friday doesn’t sit well with us.
    — Clara Ludmir, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The past few years were a frenzy of buying and building.
    — Julie Satow, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Here's Kelce on the frenzy around #Traylor (or #Tayvis, take your pick).
    — Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The post has since garnered over 32 million views, and launched a new meme frenzy.
    — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Fans were sent into a frenzy when Healy and Swift appeared to hold hands.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 5 June 2023
  • But the frenzy to get a pass is less about the convenience of parking and more about a fear of missing out.
    — Stephanie Krikorian, Curbed, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The name alone is enough to send most people into a shopping frenzy.
    — Jamie Allison Sanders, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Swift caused a media frenzy with her attendance at two of the Chiefs’ last three games.
    — Anna Tingley, Variety, 12 Oct. 2023
  • No one thought Trump was going to win at that point, and the story was swallowed up in the pre-election frenzy.
    — Lachlan Cartwright, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Many of the Redditors who joined the frenzy late ended up with huge losses.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Chris Stanfield nearly sent the Tiger crowd into a frenzy with a flyout to the deepest part of the ballpark for the third out.
    — Nubyjas Wilborn | [email protected], al, 2 June 2023
  • Their segment fooled quite a few Brits, prompting a media frenzy in the hours and days thereafter.
    — Julia Daye, Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2024
  • In the frenzy of the transformation in Kiruna, Mr. Vilgats feels the human side of things has gotten lost.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The state was in the midst of a speculative land frenzy that was always threatening to go bust.
    — Alexander Sammon, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The borrowing frenzy drove up prices, spurring a cost-of-living crisis.
    — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 2 June 2023
  • The effort stems from a broader review the agency conducted of the 2021 meme-stock frenzy.
    — Tory Newmyer, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023
  • His son Miles, who was living with Gillespie during the frenzy, was a GameStop investor.
    — Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • When Reynolds reported that the group had won one of the Powerball’s top prizes, the usually sleepy group chat burst into a frenzy.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The low-cost airline has a frenzy of flights on sale across its network starting at the $30 mark, inclusive of taxes and fees.
    — Stella Shon, Travel + Leisure, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Part of what may be driving the frenzy surrounding Bluesky may be the sheer frustration of Twitter users.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The pair, whose romance has sparked a frenzy among sports fans and Swifties alike, were first spotted together on Sept. 24 leaving a game in Kelce's car.
    — Liza Esquibias, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The frenzy began early in the day when the profile pictures on her social media accounts turned black and white.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 5 Feb. 2024
  • That has spawned a frenzy among those who had sought to game out a race in which the dynamics once appeared to be relatively set in stone.
    — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2023
  • Biotech companies added to the leasing and buying frenzy.
    — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Every month or so, a new consumption frenzy seems to flood our newsfeeds.
    — Dr. Marcus Collins, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • For freshman members like Ramirez, the frenzy upended what should’ve been a life-changing day.
    — Madison Feller, ELLE, 26 Apr. 2023
  • These problems have not stopped a frenzy of investments in the tech industry.
    — Zachary Small, New York Times, 4 July 2023
  • In fact, the government might be kick-starting a new round of M&A frenzy by losing major cases.
    — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2023
  • What the frenzy over Kate Middleton’s ‘disappearance’ says about the royals — and us.
    — Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The third-period pin sent his teammates and coaches into a frenzy.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2024
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frenzy

2 of 2 verb
  • The horses gallop and rear with such realism and frenzy the viewer feels compelled to jump out of the way.
    — Claudine Doury, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Oct. 2020
  • This has been a frenzied 72 hours for the Indianapolis Colts, a franchise that doesn’t do frenzy.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Inside Florida’s frenzied, failed dash to dole out $600 million in no-bid mask deals.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Together, the percussion and brass became springboards for a buildup to frenzy.
    — Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Speculation that the House might pass the Senate bill as-is faded last week, in part because the Senate’s frenzied, last-minute writing of the bill led to some glaring mistakes that will need to be mended.
    — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 10 Dec. 2017
  • But the beyond-his-years poise Ball has shown, amid such a loud and difficult indoctrination to the pros, is praiseworthy no matter what the numbers say, given the depths of he frenzy swirling around him.
    — Marc Stein, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2017
  • As frenzied selling accelerated in Tokyo, Hong Kong and London, unfathomable amounts of wealth vanished in a matter of hours.
    — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 24 June 2016
  • Allow us to breakdown why these tumblers, of all the Starbucks tumblers, seem to frenzy customers the most: First, each tumbler comes in one color but turns into another when exposed to cold liquids.
    — Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 27 May 2020
  • After all of the drama and miscommunication before Hurricane Irma and all of the complicated rescheduling after the storm, Frost had the Knights frenzied and frothing at the mouth.
    — Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 1 Oct. 2017
  • Orlando City’s famously frenzied fans want their team to match their intensity.
    — Mike Bianchi, Pro Soccer USA, 3 Mar. 2018
  • Bychkov even surpassed the strict-constructionist Muti in his faithfulness to the score’s wide dynamic range, in his elastic shaping of pages in which frenzied dramatic statements give way to lush melodies and tender pastoral moods.
    — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2018
  • Wing prices and production run in predictable cycles each year ramping up for the NFL playoffs and championship game in the beginning of February, then again for college basketball’s frenzied tournament a month and a half later.
    — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Kerensky had defended revolutionaries in court and sometimes moved crowds to frenzy with his speeches.
    — Olga Ingurazova, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Because that conflict remains unresolved in the story, Jones often declines to resolve it in movement; numbers build from tension to frenzy without the overfamiliar Broadway-style climax.
    — New York Times, 15 Feb. 2022
  • The horses gallop and rear with such realism and frenzy the viewer feels compelled to jump out of the way.
    — Claudine Doury, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Oct. 2020
  • This has been a frenzied 72 hours for the Indianapolis Colts, a franchise that doesn’t do frenzy.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Inside Florida’s frenzied, failed dash to dole out $600 million in no-bid mask deals.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Together, the percussion and brass became springboards for a buildup to frenzy.
    — Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Speculation that the House might pass the Senate bill as-is faded last week, in part because the Senate’s frenzied, last-minute writing of the bill led to some glaring mistakes that will need to be mended.
    — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 10 Dec. 2017
  • But the beyond-his-years poise Ball has shown, amid such a loud and difficult indoctrination to the pros, is praiseworthy no matter what the numbers say, given the depths of he frenzy swirling around him.
    — Marc Stein, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2017
  • As frenzied selling accelerated in Tokyo, Hong Kong and London, unfathomable amounts of wealth vanished in a matter of hours.
    — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 24 June 2016
  • Allow us to breakdown why these tumblers, of all the Starbucks tumblers, seem to frenzy customers the most: First, each tumbler comes in one color but turns into another when exposed to cold liquids.
    — Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 27 May 2020
  • After all of the drama and miscommunication before Hurricane Irma and all of the complicated rescheduling after the storm, Frost had the Knights frenzied and frothing at the mouth.
    — Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 1 Oct. 2017
  • Orlando City’s famously frenzied fans want their team to match their intensity.
    — Mike Bianchi, Pro Soccer USA, 3 Mar. 2018
  • Bychkov even surpassed the strict-constructionist Muti in his faithfulness to the score’s wide dynamic range, in his elastic shaping of pages in which frenzied dramatic statements give way to lush melodies and tender pastoral moods.
    — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2018
  • Wing prices and production run in predictable cycles each year ramping up for the NFL playoffs and championship game in the beginning of February, then again for college basketball’s frenzied tournament a month and a half later.
    — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Kerensky had defended revolutionaries in court and sometimes moved crowds to frenzy with his speeches.
    — Olga Ingurazova, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Because that conflict remains unresolved in the story, Jones often declines to resolve it in movement; numbers build from tension to frenzy without the overfamiliar Broadway-style climax.
    — New York Times, 15 Feb. 2022

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