Example Sentences

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Two very well connected officials suggested this scenario to me, which shows the febrility right now, even though it seems implausible.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2025

Both Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled and Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Killing of a Sacred Deer paired her winningly with Colin Farrell, with Kidman adding a cool elegance to his unpredictable febrility.

From The Guardian • Dec. 23, 2017

That he was born in the U. S. is unimportant except that his inability to subsist there argues his febrility.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then there is the window, opening right down to the floor, from which, if it please you, you may study the activity of the roofless ant-hill beneath, the restless febrility of West End London.

From The Sins of Séverac Bablon by Rohmer, Sax

At the same time the Stock Market exhibited tokens of excessive febrility, p. 292New York Central dropping twenty-three per cent. and Harlem thirteen. 

From Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by McCabe, James Dabney