Example Sentences

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Tanner plunges into these ostentatiously autobiographical roles, heedlessly, hectically and without a psychiatric net.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2026

Neither was slow, exactly, but they nevertheless felt a bit tired and hectically blurred, with hiccups in the horns and trumpets at the end of a long season.

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2023

But with its jumble of clichés, its blatant word-bubble declarations, and its hectically rushed impracticalities, the movie—which is based on a comic-book series—invites an air of antic exaggeration and revved-up stylization.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 8, 2019

Graves adds a desperately needed dash of bravura in an otherwise rather hectically staged “I Am Easily Assimilated.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 21, 2019

When either of them invented something to say they started chattering with guilty haste, and each agreed hectically with any opinion the other advanced.

From Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man by Lewis, Sinclair