Example Sentences

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The transformation of these characters is given short shrift by the hectically layered book, but their truncated scenes of inner growth are a reminder of where the beating heart of this tale resides.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2023

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

From Washington Post • Jun. 21, 2019

There, Shaw displays a thrilling tension between complexity and fury, his intricate solo lines yielding to hectically intense high-energy blasts and shrieks.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 8, 2016

This cross is a little better, with Aguero’s radar beginning to ping hectically on the edge of the six-yard box.

From The Guardian • Mar. 2, 2016

Prather inquired hectically, with a momentary qualm of shame.

From Over the Pass by Palmer, Frederick