frantically

[ fran-tik-lee ]

/ ˈfræn tɪk li /

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adverb

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.

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Origin of frantically

frantic + -ally

How to use frantically in a sentence

"She loves him," exclaimed Morley, wildly, and he rushed franticly from the room.
Sybil|Benjamin Disraeli
Not a rebel was to be seen, except those in the tree franticly scrambling to get out, and two others.
Cudjo's Cave|J. T. Trowbridge
She rushed franticly to the opposite side of the bed from that on which the doctor stood, and violently seized his wrist.
Colin Clink, Volume II (of III)|Charles Hooton
I planned the whole scene with an earnest heart and franticly set my soul on this project.
Mathilda|Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

John Blomfield, alias John Newton, started as if an adder had bitten him, and gazed franticly upon the intruder.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 441|Various

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