frantically
in a desperate, wild, or frenzied way, out of extreme excitement, pain, fear, etc.:All this time I was searching frantically in the trash can for my missing keys until, just when I thought all was lost, my finger touched something that jingled.
Origin of frantically
1- Rarely fran·tic·ly .
Words Nearby frantically
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How to use frantically in a sentence
The three adults repeatedly shouted my name as they frantically searched the house, until my father looked out the front window.
Eighty years of memories that will stir readers’ own | Connie Schultz | November 20, 2020 | Washington PostInstead, she set about frantically calling anywhere and everywhere that might be able to offer child care, even just for a week or two.
The driver frantically asked if I knew where he could get service.
Slack’s popular corporate messaging app is getting several new updates to help the wave of companies frantically shifting to accommodate employees now working from home.
Slack keeps up with the coronavirus pandemic through new updates like corporate DMs | jonathanvanian2015 | October 7, 2020 | FortuneTrix is introduced here for the first time, and watching Emily frantically search for all of her mother-in-law’s old gifts so that she can display them properly is so much fun that it makes sense Trix would become a favorite recurring guest.
From doorways that lined a long corridor, people emerged at a run and began searching frantically.
Inside a Hospital for the Criminally Insane | Caitlin Dickson | September 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTStaffers were frantically compiling information from eyewitnesses and Japanese sources.
The Intern Who Birthed The KAL007 Conspiracy Theories | Tim Mak | September 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe mother continues to row frantically, but the boat begins to drift slowly downstream.
Whatever You Do Someone Will Die. A Short Story About Impossible Choices in Iraq | Nathan Bradley Bethea | August 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe others disappeared into the school, frantically hustling to try to make deals.
Backward, backward, backward Ghana ran, and frantically…toward its own endangered goal.
Stars and Stripes 2, Black Stars 1: Team USA Takes a Win From Ghana | Tunku Varadarajan | June 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThey looked down at Grandfather Mole, who was still scurrying frantically about the garden.
The Tale of Grandfather Mole | Arthur Scott BaileyAgain Wilkins shouted at the top of his voice, and waved his arms more frantically than before.
Hunting the Lions | R.M. BallantyneThey frantically waved their hats, ceased firing, and greeted their erstwhile enemies as comrades.
Third class in Indian railways | Mahatma GandhiFumbling in his haste, he produced a pocket communicator, stabbed frantically at the dial and spoke urgently into it.
Insidekick | Jesse Franklin BoneThe others called, too, until we were all shouting frantically for Tilly.
The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch | Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
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